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‘Enough’: Cuomo’s Local Newspaper Calls On Him To Resign Over Nursing Home Scandal - Conservative Daily News
The editorial board of the Albany Times-Union, which has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for governor three times, called on the New York Democrat to resign from office Saturday for his misleading statements about coronavirus-related nursing home deaths.
“First Gov. Andrew Cuomo hid the truth about deaths of nursing home residents from the public. Then his administration lied about why. Then, pretending to come clean, it lied about why it lied,” the editorial board
wrote in a scathing takedown.
“Enough,” the editors added. “Mr. Cuomo has squandered the public’s trust at a time when it’s needed more than ever.”
Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health have come under fire following a series of revelations about the administration’s efforts to block the release of data regarding coronavirus cases and deaths in the state’s nursing homes.
On March 25, the administration released an advisory that required nursing homes to admit residents back into their facilities from hospitals, even if they had tested positive for coronavirus.
The Daily Caller News Foundation
reported on May 15 that the Department of Health had acknowledged that it was undercounting the true number of nursing home residents who had died from coronavirus by not including deaths of nursing home residents that occurred in hospitals.
Cuomo denied throughout the summer that his guidance caused nursing home deaths. His administration touted a report released by the Department of Health in July that claimed that nursing home staffers were largely responsible for spreading the virus at long-term care facilities. Cuomo also cited statistics he said showed that New York ranked better than most states in terms of fatality rates from the virus at nursing homes.
A report released by New York Attorney General Letitia James in January undercut Cuomo’s claims. It said that the true number of virus-related nursing home deaths
were likely 50% higher than what the Cuomo administration reported.
Some of Cuomo’s top aides also reportedly changed the report released in July to reflect a lower number of nursing home deaths.