
Cuomo defends blocking release of true NY nursing home death toll, blames Trump DOJ
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back after a New York Times report said his administration conducted a months-long effort to downplay the number of nursing home patients in the state who died from coronavirus.
Answering questions from reporters on Thursday, Cuomo said he and his administration were never trying to downplay numbers, but were taking their time providing statistics to make sure they were accurate as they faced a "political" investigation. "This was all politics and all a political football that then morphed into an investigation, which made all the lawyers very careful about what the information they put out was," Cuomo said.More Related News