The state comptroller says the New York State Department of Health was unprepared, slow to act and not forthcoming with important data as the pandemic's first waves battered local nursing homes.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo provides a coronavirus update during an April 2020 press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol.Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo provides a coronavirus update during an April 2020 press conference in the Red Room at the State Capitol.Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Department of Health undercounted the number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths by at least 4,100 and was unprepared to confront the deadly contagion before it ever arrived, state Comptroller Thomas P.
“The pandemic was devastating and deadly for New Yorkers living in nursing homes. Families have a right to know if their loved one’s COVID-19 death was counted, but many still don’t have answers from the state Department of Health,” DiNapoli said in a statement. “Our audit findings are extremely troubling. The public was misled by those at the highest level of state government through distortion and suppression of the facts when New Yorkers deserved the truth.
"These are not routine actions by state agencies undergoing an Office of the State Comptroller audit and raise serious concerns about the control environment at DOH," the audit said.
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