Assistance to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed that his state’s laws were too lax over nursing homes and that no facilities had lost their licenses, despite the major COVID-19 deaths.
“I think a lot of these nursing homes, frankly, retroactively, even before COVID, have been getting away with a lot for many years,” Melissa DeRosa, secretary of governor Cuomo, said according to the audio of the conference call last week. with Democratic lawmakers judged by The New York Post.
“I think that if there is evidence that someone was willful or someone was negligent in a way that goes beyond the normal course that costs people’s lives, I think we all have the same goal, namely to hold them accountable,” DeRosa added.
QUICK FACTS
- Cuomo councilor Beth Garvey conceded that the revocation of nursing home licenses has not yet happened.
- A court order and a state attorney general’s report compelled the state to acknowledge that the death toll from the nursing home is nearly 15,000 when it previously reported 8,500.
Brian Stelter of CNN and “Saturday Night Live” ignored the bomb on the governor’s growing nursing home scandal over the weekend.
Follow below for more updates on Cuomo’s nursing home scandal. Mobile users click here.