The Fate of Cuomo’s COVID-19 Death Toll Data Investigations WRITTEN BY ALICIA HOPE In 2018, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo received a $1 million donation from a healthcare lobby, the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), a coalition of hospitals, including some owning nursing homes. Two years later, Cuomo signed a sweeping law shielding nursing home executives from civil or criminal liability for harm arising from acts or omissions while providing health care. Using existing data, critics pointed out that such a law correlates to higher covid-19 deaths. While immunity from liability was necessary to protect healthcare workers and volunteers working under extraordinary circumstances, immunity for nursing home executives raised serious questions. Opponents suggested it would encourage them to make questionable decisions to prioritise profits over human life. In the same year, Cuomo signed another law allowing nursing homes to re-admit patients without testing them for the...
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