New state Well being Division figures on COVID deaths present that then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s management was even deadlier than New Yorkers knew.
The brand new stats put the pandemic’s first-year toll at 36,337 — up 21% from what the state had admitted.
The Cuomoites solely counted deaths in hospitals, care properties and related amenities, and that apply continued even after he was hounded from workplace — till now.
Finally, the numbers embody death-certificate data to rely deaths at residence, because the federal Facilities for Illness Management and the metropolis Well being Division did all alongside.
This will increase the 2020 downstate whole by 6,283 misplaced lives.
This more-honest rely exhibits that COVID was the town’s main explanation for demise in 2020 and the No. 2 trigger statewide.
Why conceal the reality? As a result of it undercut Cuomo’s picture because the heroic man-in-charge, a story that helped him rating a $5.1 million advance for his ebook “American Disaster” (largely written by workers “volunteering” their time as COVID nonetheless raged).
Within the wake of his orders forcing care properties to confess contagious sufferers, Cuomo & Co. additionally undercounted deaths in these properties, ultimately pleading to state legislators that they feared a federal probe by the Trump Justice Division.
Cuomo is now pulling out all of the stops in a bid to regain public assist. This data ought to remind the individuals of New York that he doesn’t deserve it.
Worse is to come back, when (if?) the Hochul administration lastly makes public its long-delayed evaluation of the Cuomo-era response to COVID.
