YEAR 2024-----CONTINUED COVERAGE OF THE COVID NURSING HOME SCANDAL--EMPIRE CENTER--CUOMO'S HOUSE TESTIMONEY ADDED NEW MISINFORMATION ABOUT COVID IN NURSING HOMES

Cuomo’s House Testimony Added New Misinformation about Covid in Nursing Homes by Bill Hammond

Throughout the scandal over former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of Covid-19 in nursing homes, Cuomo and his administration repeatedly spread bad information – misstating how its policies had worked, understating death counts, falsifying official reports and stonewalling data requests from the Legislature and the public.

That deceptive pattern continued with Cuomo’s testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which has been investigating the affair for much of the past two years.

In private interviews over the summer and at a public hearing last month, Cuomo and several of his aides repeated several of their earlier false or misleading claims – such as the assertion that their controversial March 25, 2020, directive sending infected patients into nursing homes had followed guidance from federal health officials.

(In fact, the guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, had emphasized that homes could accept Covid-positive patients only if they were prepared to take precautions to protect other residents. The state policy did not mention any special precautions or cite CMS recommendations.)  In addition, Cuomo’s testimony included two new arguments that were misleading or false.  Read the Full Article on EmpireCenter.org