New York governor aides ‘misled on nursing home deaths’
Wall Street Journal and New York Times report that advisers concealed how many nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19
05 March 2021 - 10:34
Bengaluru — New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s top advisers had successfully pushed the state’s health officials to strip a public report of data that showed more nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19 than acknowledged by the administration, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported on Thursday.
The report in July had examined factors leading to the spread of the coronavirus in nursing homes and focused only on residents who died inside long-term care facilities, leaving out those who died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing homes, the Journal said...
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