The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has not publicly commented on whether it will withdraw a New York government grant from Andrew Cuomo after its government confirmed last week that thousands more nursing home residents had died from COVID-19 than what the state’s official scores had. previously recognized.
Cuomo received the International Emmy Founders Award in November “in recognition of his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and his masterful use of television to inform and calm people around the world.”
The Emmys said the award is given to those who “cross cultural boundaries to touch our common humanity.”
Fox News reached the academy, but by the time of publication he had received no response.
The award of Cuomo at the time caused considerable setbacks due to the controversial policy of the governor’s old age home. In March, Cuomo issued a mandate requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients released from hospitals.
The idea was to prepare for a scenario where hospitals would be overwhelmed and forced to discharge patients to return to nursing homes. Cuomo recalled the directive in May, saying hospitals cannot send patients back to nursing homes unless they have tested negative.
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The mandate is linked to the deaths of thousands of elderly residents – something that Cuomo’s government has long denied. But last Thursday, his administration confirmed that thousands of nursing home residents were dying from the virus as previously acknowledged.
The announcement comes after the state for months refused to disclose its true numbers, showing that at least 12,743 long-term caregivers had died from the virus as of January 19 – well above the official count of 8,505 on that day.
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The numbers undermine Cuomo’s frequent argument that criticism of his handling of the virus in nursing homes was part of a political ‘guilt game’, and it was a justification for thousands of families who believed their loved ones had been left out of graves to run for governor. ‘s image as a pandemic hero.
Cuomo, who last year published a book proposing his leadership in dealing with the virus, did not refrain from using the mortality rate of New York’s lower nursing home to argue that his state is doing better than others in nursing. of people in such facilities.
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“There is also no doubt that we are in this hyperpolitical environment, so everyone wants to point the finger,” Cuomo told CBS in October. “New York, we’re actually 46 out of 50 in terms of the percentage of deaths in nursing homes … it’s not a predominantly New York problem.”
Fox News’ Evie Fordham and The Associated Press contributed to this report.