Former NY governor Andrew Cuomo has been subpoenaed by Congress regarding the deadly NY state nursing home scandal of 2020. It would be nice to see something done about his apparent crime of sending covid-positive elders into (or back into) nursing homes (and continuing to do it for months), who then infected other residents and led allegedly to thousands of deaths. A few other American governors did the same. I still have a copy of Cuomo's order somewhere, which I saved from the Web at the time - it was deleted from the NY Health Department's website just months after its issuance. I don't have high hopes, but this investigation has so far survived Biden being in office. "Conspiracy theorists" suggest this was done to pump up death numbers/fear of the virus and to cut into a highly active, heavily Trump-leaning voting block.
Again, this theme of evil in the guise of incompetence.
Cuomo has been subpoenaed, cited as crucial to the investigation, but he has thus far been uncooperative. The Cuomo camp maintains that the decision descended from federal guidance of the Trump administration. They also suggest that
everyone did this, but I've never seen evidence that's true. They also say that the nursing-home death rate was unaffected by the decision. Furthermore, there was no cause, of which I'm aware, to make this decision, because we know that most hospitals were
not actually overcrowded as the media reported.
The House panel probing the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has subpoenaed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his handling of nursing homes during the pandemic.
abcnews.go.com
In the seven-page letter to Cuomo that accompanied Tuesday's subpoena, the committee said his testimony was "vital" as the panel continues it to investigate "the effectiveness of federal guidance and regulations" that were implemented during the pandemic.
The committee, chaired by Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, in its letter directly linked what it called Cuomo's "misguided decision" to "predictable but deadly consequences" in nursing homes, and referenced "troubling evidence" that Cuomo's administration "at best downplayed its impacts and at worst covered them up."
The charges surfaced publicly no later than early 2021:
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic under a controversial directive that was scrapped amid criticism it accelerated outbreaks, according to new records obtained by The Associated Press
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NY State Health Department website deleted Coumo's order from March 25, 2020 not long after its issuance.
New York officials have scrubbed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's March 25 order requiring nursing homes to take in COVID-19 patients from the state health department website -- even as Cuomo's office has insisted that the order, which has been linked to thousands of nursing home deaths, remains in effect.
www.foxnews.com