New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resisted inquiries by the press and his own Democratic Legislature into how his policy of returning Covid-19 patients to nursing homes contributed to an untold number of elderly deaths.
Justice on Wednesday sent letters to Mr. Cuomo and the governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey requesting virus data from their nursing homes.
DOJ says it wants to determine whether the states' orders "Requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes is responsible for the deaths of nursing home residents."
Mr. Cuomo continued to send recovering Covid patients back to nursing homes even when there were plenty of surge beds-both in a U.S. Navy hospital ship, and the Javits Center hospital that the Trump Administration built.
A Brooklyn nursing home on April 9 asked the state to transfer vulnerable patients to these field hospitals.
An apologia last month by his Department of Health claimed New York's share of nursing home deaths of all fatalities was the lowest in the country.
A nursing home in the Bronx said the state counted only four of its 21 resident deaths.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-gets-a-nursing-home-inspection-11598655585?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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