Cuomo officials 'threatened' nursing home reps over COVID-19 vaccination efforts: Report

Top advisors to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to fine or revoke the licenses of nursing home administrators for alleged malpractice regarding COVID-19 vaccinations based on data that, officials claim, turned out to be inaccurate, according to a report on Monday.

"What are my options here?" Zucker said in a recording of the meeting obtained by the Post. "There’s the option of fines. There’s the option of enforcement. There’s the option of shaming everyone and saying, ‘I can’t believe the people aren’t doing this.’" "I’m not trying to be difficult with all of you," Zucker added. "But the bottom line is, these are residents of these nursing homes and there are vaccines put aside for them, and the nursing home administrators need to pick them up and get them into the arms of those residents, and the staff as well. Anything shy of that is just irresponsible." Garvey said it was "absolute malpractice" that facilities had not picked up their vaccine shipments and added that "each and every medical director at these facilities should feel personal jeopardy for their medical licenses."