New York keeps publicizing lower COVID-19 death count than the federal figures

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has continued publicizing a much lower state COVID-19 death toll count than the numbers being presented to and displayed by the federal government, a new report revealed.

The state and federal coronavirus death toll differential has even widened this year to a current reported gap of 11,000 — despite numerous investigations into the Cuomo administration for lowballing the number of nursing home COVID-19 deaths, according to a review by the Associated Press. News of New York’s undercount comes months after Florida Gov. Ron Desantis was erroneously accused of doing the same thing.