Will Secretary of State Andrew Cuomo allow anything resembling an external review of New York’s coronavirus nursing homes? The test case is a bilingual bill of state sen. Jim Tedisco and Assemblyman Ron Kim. At the height of the pandemic, the March 25 mandate put the infected patients among the …
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The Connecticut Department of Public Health is investigating the Three Rivers Nursing Home in Norwich following an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in the facility. A spokesman for SEIU 1199, which represents workers at Three Rivers, said Thursday that the facility has at least 15 residents who tested positive and that …
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Head of State Andrew Cuomo again justified his administration’s decision to stop counting as deceased nursing homes the COVID-19 deaths of residents who underwent it after being transferred to hospitals, but ultimately acknowledged at least one mistake he made during the crisis in coronavirus. ‘I was the first state in …
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The Trump administration official in charge of the country’s COVID-19 testing strategy said Thursday that the U.S. is doing enough testing and removing critics who say otherwise. “It’s just a false statement – and I’m tired of hearing it from people who are not involved in the system – that …
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It’s hard to know what’s worse – dying than lying. More than 32,000 New Yorkers have died from the coronavirus, a toll higher than any other state. New York also ranks second in at least out of every 50 states, with deaths per million inhabitants. Only New Jersey did it …
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