NEW—a report written by state health officials sent to Cuomo that described >9000 nursing home residents in New York had died of #COVID19, & not yet public, was rewritten by governor’s most senior aides to take it out, according to interviews & documents. nytimes.com/2021/03/04/nyr…
2) After the state attorney general revealed earlier this year that thousands of deaths of nursing home residents had been undercounted, Mr. Cuomo finally released the complete data, saying he had withheld it out of concern.
3) “But Mr. Cuomo and his aides actually began concealing the numbers months earlier, as his aides were battling their own top health officials, and well before requests for data arrived from federal authorities
4) “The central role played by the governor’s top aides reflected the lengths to which Mr. Cuomo has gone in the middle of a deadly pandemic to control data, brush aside public health expertise and bolster his position as a national leader in the fight against the coronavirus.
5) “As the nursing home report was being written, the New York State Health Department’s data — contained in a chart reviewed by The Times that was included in a draft —put the death toll roughly 50 percent higher than the figure then being cited publicly by Cuomo administration.
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