“The attorney general’s report is alarming on a number of levels and triggers even more questions. What took place in New York’s nursing homes and the Cuomo Administration’s decision to deliberately mislead the public by underreporting COVID-19 fatalities is unconscionable and demands accountability. 

The report indicates that as many as 13,000 nursing home residents may have died from COVID-19 – that’s more fatalities than the entire death toll of 40 states. Families, advocates, members of the media and lawmakers demanded the truth for months. But this administration dismissed those questions as a politically motivated agenda and went so far as to concoct a Department of Health report that absolved the Department of Health.

Our governor actually wrote a book about leadership in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as we learned today, and as many suspected, he never told the whole story.”