Cuomo accused by own state's attorney general of covering up COVID-19 nursing home deaths

Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to send New Yorkers with COVID-19 to nursing homes led to thousands of unnecessary deaths. 

And New York's attorney general, also a Democrat, is accusing Cuomo of minimizing the nursing home death totals in New York State from COVID by 50 percent. 

Late last year, in an award the should be rescinded, Cuomo received an Emmy for his daily COVID briefings.

From NBC News:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration faced a barrage of criticism in the wake of a report from his own state attorney general claiming that the state had undercounted Covid-19 nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent.

The state's public death toll for nursing homes does not include residents who died from the coronavirus after having been transferred to hospitals, only deaths that occurred at facilities. Attorney General Letitia James' report examined 62 nursing homes — about 10 percent of the state's total — and found that New York's approach left a large number of hospital deaths out of the state's official nursing home death toll.

Advocates, researchers and lawmakers from both parties have campaigned for months for the Cuomo administration to disclose the full number of deaths associated with long-term care facilities.