Cuomo’s office denies altering count of nursing home deaths
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office released a new statement Friday denying that any of Cuomo’s top advisers altered nursing home data to undercount Covid-19 deaths.
Beth Garvey, special counsel to Cuomo, said in a statement that "out of facility" Covid-19 deaths among nursing home residents were not counted in a July report on nursing home deaths because hospital deaths had not been verified. "A decision was made to use the data set that was reported by the place of death with firsthand knowledge of the circumstances, which gave a higher degree of comfort in its accuracy," Garvey explained. "There were repeated public statements acknowledging the out of facility deaths were not being listed as a subset of nursing home deaths stemming from concerns related to potential for double counting and consistency and accuracy," Garvey said. "COVID Taskforce members, including Melissa DeRosa, Linda Lacewell, and Jim Malatras, were involved in reviewing the draft report -- none of them changed any of the fatality numbers or ‘altered’ the fatality data."
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