NEWS: A Marist Poll released today found that 60% of respondents perceive some wrongdoing by Cuomo in his handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
The first member of the Capitol press corps to be called on for a question in @NYGovCuomo's briefing (Cuomo aides choose) is @morganfmckay, who asks:
+ How does this new attribution of deaths to nursing homes affect policy?
+ Do you have confidence in DOH?
+ What about immunity?
Cuomo said he has not seen bills repealing immunity protections for health care providers, which were enacted in April as part of the state budget.
Cuomo: “The nursing homes were doing all this data in a hectic period. The OAG’s report also said, the data from the nursing homes is very sketchy. That’s why the department of health … has been auditing the data.”
Cuomo and his small team took command of the Health Dept and overrode local govs that wanted to go beyond the state’s social distancing restrictions. That delayed the New York City shutdown and slowed the reaction time as the virus spread in nursing homes. wsj.com/articles/cuomo…
Columbia University researchers estimated that 17,514 deaths in the metropolitan area could have been avoided if officials had instituted seven days earlier each of the social-distancing measures they eventually enacted.