Eegore wrote on 01/31/21 at 09:41:20: The question I think that needs to be asked is who reported those numbers? If it is the State of NY, then they obviously didn't look at their own assessment tools, or more likely were just "omitting" that information.
If it was "the news" then they are the one's that screwed up, because that verbiage is really straightforward. People outside of a nursing home were counted at the hospital. Poor verification, or manipulation of public statements, either way its poor conduct.
I think it's a bit more than "poor conduct".
Cuomo got badly hammered pretty early on by the NY press when it was discovered that his policy was to send still infectious, but no longer critically ill covid patients right back to the nursing home that they lived in as soon as they could be discharged from hospital instead of quarantining them somewhere until they were no longer a danger to the other rsidents and staff. He did finally change that policy.
He is still, rightly in my opinion, being blamed for his culpability in the horrendous death toll in NY among nursing home residents.
Cuomo doesn't like that. He*l, he published a friggin book last spring touting what a wonderful job he was doing handling the pandemic in NY compared to the governors in other states.
Not counting nursing home residents that die after they get sick enough to be sent to a hospital to die, as NURSING HOME DEATHS, looks to me like deliberate political manipulation in order to keep the numbers down so governor a'shole doesn't look any worse than he already does.