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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Were you in NY when that happened? Genuinely curious what Cuomo was supposed to do with those patients?[/quote]

Yes, I was. Step one was for Cuomo to admit it when one of them died and add their deaths to the death toll. He didn't do that . From the NY Times 3/14/22:

[quote] The administration of former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo failed to publicly account for the deaths of about 4,100 nursing home residents in New York during the pandemic, according to an audit released on Tuesday by the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The audit found that Health Department officials at times underreported the full death toll by as much as 50 percent from April 2020 to February 2021, as Mr. Cuomo faced increasing scrutiny over whether his administration had intentionally concealed the actual number of deaths.[/quote]

He didn't report them PRECISELY because he didn't want his decision to put covid patients into rehab facilities with immunocompromised patients criticized. Now, we can argue as to whether he had other choices at the time. But LYING about their deaths is unacceptable.

First, it was incredibly demoralizing to the patients in the nursing homes who were scared out of the minds by what was going on when they knew --because they read and watch the news--that the deaths of their fellow patients were NOT being reported. That's why the patients in the public rehab facility in my neighborhood put up posters every day with the number of people who had died.

Second, Cuomo lied to enhance his own political ambitions. Read more here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_home_scandal

So, while you might want to argue as to whether he had better options, I hope you won't argue that leaving over 4,000 deaths out of NYC's covid death statistics is a serious offence.[/quote]

You didn’t answer. What were the other options? [/quote]

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