New York Democrats block subpoena for nursing home COVID-19 fatalities data

Last week New York’s Attorney General, a Democrat, released a report on Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous COVID-19 nursing home edict which found the New York Governor underreported the deaths related to his policy to have been vastly underreported by 50%.

Andrew Cuomo’s response was a Clinton-esque “who cares where they died? They died!” I am sure the family and friends of the needlessly dead care. Republicans also care, and they are trying to open an investigation into the matter. But I can tell you who apparently does not care and that is the New York Democrats because according to this story they have blocked a subpoena for the data related to the nursing home fatalities. Here is more:

New York State Senate Democrats blocked a subpoena for nursing home fatality data on Monday, mere days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a damning report indicating  Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) administration had “undercounted” the number of coronavirus-related fatalities in nursing homes “by as much as 50 percent.”

Sen. Thomas O’Mara, the top Republican serving on the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, made the motion on Monday during a virtual meeting. The Republican lawmaker said he wanted to “make sure we get to the bottom” of the irregularities in reporting the data on coronavirus-related fatalities in nursing homes.

The motion followed last week’s report from New York Attorney General Letitia James, which indicated “a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health’s (DOH) published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50 percent.”

Their excuse is something like everybody already knows how many people dies so why release the data? In other words the New York Democrats are moving to protect their Supreme Leader.

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