![]() ![]() On Monday, state Senate Investigations Committee Chairman James Skoufis (D-Newburgh) even threatened to issue a subpoena, calling it “downright insulting…that, six months later, DOH is continuing to stonewall us on basic questions.” The DOH had been facing calls to release the total number of deaths from The Post, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and the Empire Center for Public Policy, which filed suit under the state Freedom of Information Law in September. NY AG Letitia James reluctantly outs Team Cuomo’s nursing-home horrors Zucker’s statement doesn’t actually include the total of those various death counts. “When 2,957 presumed COVID nursing home fatalities – those fatalities that occurred when testing was scarce and lack confirmed evidence the deceased had COVID – are included, the state’s share of fatalities of individuals that died in nursing homes or in hospitals after transfer is 29.8% of the total number of confirmed and presumed deaths in New York State listed by CDC.” “DOH data audited to date shows that from Mato Janu9,786 confirmed fatalities have been associated with Skilled Nursing Facility residents, including 5,957 fatalities within nursing facilities, and 3,829 within a hospital,” Zucker said. Annie Wermiel/NY PostĮarlier Thursday, the DOH website put that figure at 8,740, citing data current as of a day earlier. An ambulance arrives at a Brooklyn nursing home on June 11, 2020. Prior to Zucker’s grudging announcement, the official DOH count of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 included only residents who actually died in nursing homes - and not anyone who died at a hospital while undergoing treatment. “The word ‘undercount’ implies there are more total fatalities than have been reported this is factually wrong.” “The New York State Office of the Attorney General report is clear that there was no undercount of the total death toll from this once-in-a-century pandemic,” Zucker claimed. That report said data from 62 nursing homes showed the death toll of residents was 56 percent higher than publicly acknowledged by by the Department of Health. The staggering number is only slightly less than the 13,000-plus suggested by the report issued earlier in the day by Attorney General Letitia James. Howard Zucker released figures that put the tally of confirmed and presumed deaths in both nursing homes and hospitals at 12,743 as of Jan. In a defensive, nearly 1,700-word statement, Dr. ![]() Andrew Cuomo and other officials downplayed the deadly impact of COVID-19 on New York’s nursing homes finally led the state’s embattled health commissioner on Thursday to reveal the total number of resident fatalities. New bodycam video shows moment shocked staffers saw comatose patient giving birthĭog escapes shelter, sneaks into nursing home: ‘Now he is all of ours’Ī damning attorney general’s report that showed Gov. Retired couple spent almost 500 days at sea after booking 51 straight cruises because it’s cheaper than retirement home House COVID panel threatens Cuomo subpoena for nursing home scandal records ![]()
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