The 1,000-bed USNS Comfort, for example, departed the city after one month, treating just 182 patients.
“And we’ve been asking the questions. How many people have you put in these nursing homes that were positive, and how many people died in these nursing homes as a result?” she said, noting that she called for a federal investigation in May. The Department of Justice, she said, initiated an inquiry months later.
“In October, the Cuomo administration investigation was made public and now we’re learning … more and more about exactly what took place,” she said, mentioning New York Attorney General Letitia James’s report that found that the administration underreported deaths that occurred in nursing homes by an estimated 50 percent. The report showed Cuomo’s administration underreported the number of positive patients admitted to the nursing homes by 40 percent.
Malliotakis continued, “This week the public discovered DeRosa admitted the administration covered up the true figures ‘because they were afraid of prosecutors.'”
