New York governor Andrew Cuomo is being set up to fall by his own party. But, as I recently wrote, Cuomo is being hung out to dry for the wrong reasons. The Democrat machine is subjecting Cuomo to a show-trial on allegations of the sort of sexual shenanigans that have otherwise been handwaved away when targeted at other senior party figures, from presidents down.
At the same time, an investigation into truly horrific allegations against Cuomo – that he oversaw Covid policies that directly resulted in thousands of deaths – has been quietly dropped by the Biden DOJ. The horrors of New York were repeated across the northeastern states of America: all but one of them Democrat-run.
So what actually happened?
On March 29 [2020], as Pennsylvania, New York and other states began ordering nursing homes to admit medically stable residents infected with the coronavirus, national trade groups warned it could unnecessarily cost more lives.
Given that it was already known by then that the Wuhan plague primarily killed the very old and very sick, such a policy bordered on criminally insane.
The health directives put “frail and older adults who reside in nursing homes at risk” and would “result in more people going to the hospital and more deaths,” the American Health Care Association and affiliates said at the time.
The result was as awful as it was predictable.
At least 3,043 people have died inside New York nursing homes due to COVID-19 complications, or about 17% of the state’s 18,015 deaths as of Wednesday.
In Pennsylvania, about 65% of coronavirus deaths were nursing-home residents, and in counties in the hardest hit southeastern part of the state, long-term care residents account for as much as 80% of county deaths.
New Jersey had 3,200 residents of long-term care homes die due to complications from the virus, about 40% of the statewide total.
About 58% of the deaths in Delaware lived in nursing homes, and 46% of the fatalities in Maryland were at nursing homes, prompting Gov. Larry Hogan to order residents and staff members at nursing homes be tested for coronavirus.
Tellingly, Pennsylvania’s then Health Secretary, transgender Rachel Levine, since appointed to the Biden administration, quietly moved his own 95-year-old mother out of a nursing home shortly after mandating that they accept Covid patients.
“To have a mandate that nursing homes accept COVID-19 patients has put many people in grave danger,” said Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition in New York.
“We know facilities have a lot of infection-control problems, we know that facilities have low staff, so what do you think was going to happen when the staff were further strained in caring for these patients?”
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But Cuomo’s state government actually threatened nursing homes if they refused to comply with the deadly policy. The administration barred facilities from testing returning patients or new admissions for the virus.
And the bodies kept piling up.
So the Cuomo administration did what politicians and bureaucrats will do: it went into cover-up mode.
When, in July 2020, New York health officials sent Cuomo’s office a report detailing exactly how many nursing home residents had died, the governor’s senior aides rewrote the report to remove the shocking data. This was just the beginning of months of systematic undercounting of nursing home deaths. Cuomo’s office went to war with his own health officials, leading to nine senior officials resigning in protest.
At the same time, Cuomo was loudly boasting his state’s “success” and touting himself as a national leader in tackling the pandemic.
Sickeningly, when Cuomo finally did release the true figures, he astonishingly tried to blame Donald Trump. Cuomo said that he had withheld the horrifying figures out of concern that the Trump administration might pursue a politically motivated inquiry.
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