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In reply to the discussion: New report reveals massive cover-up in New York nursing home scandal [View all]ancianita
(35,813 posts)21. For all the latest hype, NY was #34 in total, not per capita, nursing home deaths, yet it has
the greatest number of nursing homes of any state.
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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