NY Congresswoman Calls on Cuomo to Resign for Nursing Home Deaths

A New York congresswoman is calling on the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo, to resign over his administration's cover-up of reporting of thousands of COVID-19 deaths in the state's nursing homes.

The congresswoman said that the nursing home deaths occurred because of Cuomo's executive order of just over a year ago on March 25, 2020, which forced nursing homes to take in COVID-19-positive patients discharged from hospitals, exposing vulnerable elderly in the nursing homes to the coronavirus.

The executive order stated: "No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to the solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission."

Cuomo is also facing calls to resign-including from fellow New York Democrats, among them the state's two U.S. senators-over a series of sexual harassment allegations.

"The stuff with the sexual harassment that has come subsequent to that, I believe, is completely troublesome," the New York congresswoman said, but later added: "I'm actually quite shocked that state legislators are focused more on the sexual harassment and not the 15,000 deaths, because that was an admitted cover-up, where the other stuff is allegations at this point."

On Jan. 28, New York state Attorney General Letitia James published a report finding that there were a large number of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 and that they may have been undercounted by 50%. "The number of individuals that were [COVID-19] positive that were placed in those nursing homes, he underreported that by 40% as well," Malliotakis said.

Cuomo has repeatedly refused calls to step down.
 

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