Senior aides to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) rewrote a troubling report about the number of pandemic-related nursing home deaths last year to include a much lower death toll, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that top advisers in Cuomo’s office had intervened to alter drafts of the July report, which chronicled the spread of COVID-19 in the city’s nursing homes. Such residents are among those most vulnerable to severe cases of the coronavirus, and at the time concerns were growing about an uncontrolled spread in those facilities.
