Ms. James’s report also found a number of homes that “failed to comply with critical infection control policies,” including not isolating residents who had teste
These findings may put AG James, a Democrat, in direct conflict with Mr. Cuomo who has continued to tout his administrations response to the pandemic, despite more than 42,000 deaths in the state.
As of Thursday morning, there have been at least 1,369,329 cases and 42,434 deaths in New York since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a New York Times database.
Gov. Cuomo has dodged much of the pushback and accusations that his administration did not do enough to safeguard a highly vulnerable population, ignoring this political liability and instead, promoted himself as a ‘savior of New York.’ Increasing his profits off the pandemic, while families are left grieving the loss of their loved ones who died alone.
Mr. Cuomo was criticized for a March 25 memo from the Health Department, which ordered nursing homes to accept patients who had tested positive. After NY leaders and officials met with Gov. Cuomo, the Health Department released a report in July that refuted their previous findings regarding the return to nursing homes policy. This report stated that “most of the patients were no longer contagious when admitted and therefore were not a source of infection.” The report blamed employees for being asymptomatic spreaders instead.
