The push by New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s office to obscure the coronavirus death toll in state nursing homes was more widespread than initially thought, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Senior aides attempted to prevent the New York State Health Department from releasing the true number of coronavirus victims in nursing homes over at least five months beginning in the spring of 2020, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Times.
For example, a draft report by the Health Department on coronavirus deaths in nursing homes identified 9,739 victims through the end of May. However, that draft was not released. The state only admitted publicly that 6,500 nursing home residents had died of coronavirus as late as August.
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