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In reply to the discussion: Why are Cuomo's accusers all piling on just now? They've [View all]wnylib
(26,432 posts)were hospitalized and died in the hospital, their deaths were not counted as nursing home deaths. As far as I know, if someone died in a nursing home, it was counted as a nursing home death.
When AG Letitia James audited the records, she discovered that, if those hospital deaths were counted as nursing home deaths, the number of nursing home
deaths increased by 50%.
The total number of covid deaths did not change. The cause of death did not change.
Looks like the nursing home issue depends on the reporting of the place of death. Is it a hospital or nursing home death? Did the patient die because the nursing home was not able to give them the early care and attention that they needed? Or did they wait too long to send them to a hospital? Did the patirnt die because the hospital was overwhelmed and did not have the staff and equipment to give them the time andxattention that they needed? Did the patient get the virus in the nursing home or go to a hospital for an emergency and get exposed in the hospital? If the patient got the virus in the nursing home, was it from a visitor? A staff member who was exposed to someone outside of work? From one patient who was sick and passed the virus to others via staff who lacked PPE and sanitation supplies to protect other patients?