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In reply to the discussion: New report reveals massive cover-up in New York nursing home scandal [View all]former9thward
(31,986 posts)14. Nope.
Cuomo ordered nursing homes to take infected patients. That lead to other people in the nursing home getting infected and dying. Do you think Cuomo's top aide is lying about this?
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New report reveals massive cover-up in New York nursing home scandal [View all]
Jose Garcia
Feb 2021
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No it's not. And no he isn't. From eight months ago when NO other governors briefed ANYbody:
ancianita
Feb 2021
#19
Cuomo couldn't and said why. 70% of the nation's nursing homes are run by private enterprise,
ancianita
Feb 2021
#12
Stupid, stupid, stupid mistake. Trump wanted discounted numbers for Pete's sakes. Who made ...
marble falls
Feb 2021
#5
Ohio reported yesterday that they underreported by almost 35 % to the total death count.
Aerator
Feb 2021
#9
I don't think it was stupid. It was following the Medicaid law, and the majority of patients
pnwmom
Feb 2021
#32
New York didn't do a coverup. It's privately run nursing homes that did that. Same for other states.
ancianita
Feb 2021
#13
where were these patients supposed to go if they were too healthy to be in the hospital?
LymphocyteLover
Feb 2021
#29
Thanks for your post. She's not lying. But she made a decision that Cuomo's getting the hit for.
ancianita
Feb 2021
#18
Why did Cuomo's own chief of staff admit they did not disclose the true numbers intentionally.
MichMan
Feb 2021
#44
Why depends on the dates, and when they knew their decision didn't work, doesn't it.
ancianita
Feb 2021
#45
For all the latest hype, NY was #34 in total, not per capita, nursing home deaths, yet it has
ancianita
Feb 2021
#21
Cuomo should have called out the private nursing homes for suppressing data. Did he?
Evolve Dammit
Feb 2021
#23
I suspect this story is way overblown and being misrepresented by the NYPost, FoxNews-style
LymphocyteLover
Feb 2021
#31
Reactionary social media grifters with bus loads of followers will eat this up
dustyscamp
Feb 2021
#36
"they froze out of fear that the true numbers would be used against them by federal prosecutors"
Steelrolled
Feb 2021
#37