The figures came hours after New York Attorney General Letitia James said the state had undercounted nursing home deaths from Covid-19 by 50%, based on information obtained across 62 nursing homes.
The change in nursing home death numbers does not change the total Covid-19 death count for New York state - which now stands at 34,742 - as the hospital deaths were included in the state's overall total.
Professor calls Attorney General's report state may have undercounted nursing home deaths by 50% 'concerning' Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health says there ought to be concern over the New York Attorney General's findings into the number of COVID deaths in the state's nursing homes.
New York's Attorney General Letitia James' report reveals the state may have undercounted coronavirus nursing home deaths by nearly 50%. Dr. Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health says there ought to be concern over its findings.
In her report, James said that the New York State Health Department only ever counted people who physically died in nursing homes, rather than people who contracted the disease in nursing homes but then died in hospital too.
Cuomo's decision to send thousands of COVID-19 patients back into nursing homes has been widely blamed for the high number of deaths among elderly people in New York.In May, the AP published the first report that New York was undercounting nursing home deaths and the AG's office launched an investigation.
The New York State Health Commissioner said the report was not damning, and 'confirmed' that they'd always counted all of deaths just not as nursing home fatalities.
Friday, January 29, 2021
New York State admits nearly 13000 COVID nursing home deaths after MONTHS of claiming only 8500 died
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