The NYSBA (New York State Bar Association) Task Force on Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care determined that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order policy forcing nursing homes to take on patients that had tested positive for COVID-19 led to more deaths.
The report is a devastating indictment on the Democrat governor’s policies and their effects on the elderly in the Empire State during the early stages of the pandemic.
The task force, according to the New York Post, defined Cuomo’s directive as “unreasonable” in both its “absoluteness” and the length of time it was left in effect.
While they were unable to put a particular number on that effect, the NYSBA was able to determine “there are credible reviews that suggest that the directive, for the approximately six weeks that it was in effect, did lead to some number of additional deaths.”
I hope this sinks in for all the journalists who gushed about just how great a job Andrew Cuomo did with Covid. | Cuomo nursing home order did cause more deaths, should’ve been reversed sooner: task force https://t.co/49YhKG6k7J
— Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) June 15, 2021
Task Force: Cuomo Nursing Home Policy Led To More Deaths
Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order on March 25th which forced nursing homes to take on patients that had tested positive for coronavirus.
The order prohibited nursing homes from requiring incoming patients “to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
Cuomo’s directive remained in place for over six weeks while well over 15,000 senior citizens succumbed to the virus.
Andrew Cuomo can deny killing 15,000 nursing home residents all he wants. Here is his executive order that caused it. pic.twitter.com/V1XFF01faa
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) February 16, 2021
The New York Democrat and his top aides have also been accused of hiding the data on those nursing home deaths and stripping numbers from DOH (Department of Health) reports.
For months Cuomo touted a DOH report which contained an explicit quantifier that the order forcing the care facilities to take on COVID-positive patients was “not a driver of nursing home infections or fatalities.”
The NYSBA task force determined that was not accurate.
“The Department of Health issued a report in 2020 in which it argued unconvincingly that the admission of 6,326 COVID-positive residents during the period the Health directive was in effect had no impact,” the report states.
“That cannot be the case, and has now been shown not to be the case.”
The 242-page report by the NYSBA’s Task Force on Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care also blasts Cuomo for not reversing the Department of Health’s “unreasonable” mandate sooner than he did, saying it remained in effect weeks longer than necessary.”
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) June 16, 2021
Cuomo’s Order Cost Lives
The report that Governor Cuomo’s executive order for nursing homes did lead to more deaths is a small measure of vindication for Fox News meteorologist and author Janice Dean, who has argued for months that his policies led to the deaths of more seniors than in any other state.
She argued in an op-ed column for USA Today over the summer that very point.
Dean’s in-laws were the unfortunate victims of COVID-19, where nursing homes in New York played a significant part.
“At first we didn’t blame anyone for my in-laws’ deaths. This is a pandemic, after all,” she wrote. “Then we learned about a policy that put them in danger.”
Dean’s column featured a sub-heading arguing, “My family didn’t have to die.”
Janice Dean: COVID-19 killed my in-laws after Cuomo’s reckless New York nursing home policy https://t.co/euuKg6oPUJ via @usatoday
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) July 22, 2020
Governor Cuomo is under investigation and impeachment inquiry for a slew of scandals, not the least of which involves the nursing home executive order and subsequent effort to obstruct justice by hiding the numbers.
They include:
- Numerous sexual misconduct allegations including a police report involving forcibly groping an aide.
- Bullying and threatening fellow lawmakers and members of the media.
- Under investigation for a $5.1 million book deal profiting off the pandemic by having aides write and edit portions using state resources.
- Provided priority COVID-19 testing for his family and associates, also allegedly using state resources.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out admitting over 9,000 Covid patients into nursing homes for 46 days would increase the amount of deaths, but if a 242-page report from the NY State Bar association proves [Cuomo] lied and people died, so be it,” Dean tweeted.
The Fox News personality has suggested many people in the Cuomo administration belong in prison over the nursing home scandal.
“I really feel like he should go to jail,” Dean has said. “And all these people surrounding him that covered this up for so many months, they should go to jail.”
The NYSBA report relied in part on a study by the Empire Center for Public Policy that tied “several hundred and possibly more than 1,000” deaths of nursing home residents to Cuomo’s executive order.
There is now a straight-line correlation between his policies and the deaths of the elderly during the pandemic. The question is, will anybody in New York state do anything about it?
This article was originally published by the Political Insider. Read the original article.
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