{"id":683429,"date":"2021-08-25T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683429"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:21:27","slug":"new-yorks-new-gov-adds-12k-to-states-covid-death-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-yorks-new-gov-adds-12k-to-states-covid-death-count\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s New Gov Adds 12K to State\u2019s COVID Death Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-yorks-new-gov-adds-12k-to-states-covid-death-count%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/rsz_gettyimages-1234845768.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.), who took office this week in the wake of Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s resignation, acknowledged nearly 12,000 additional deaths from COVID-19 that went uncounted when Cuomo was governor.<\/p>\n<p>The state <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19tracker.health.ny.gov\/views\/NYS-COVID19-Tracker\/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Fatalities?%3Aembed=yes&amp;%3Atoolbar=no&amp;%3Atabs=n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now reports<\/a> over 55,000 deaths from the coronavirus, up from the 43,000 deaths Cuomo&#8217;s health department <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/andrew-cuomo-health-coronavirus-pandemic-7312b49695e726eda8d59848e82271c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tallied<\/a> when he left office Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re now releasing more data than had been released before publicly, so people know the nursing home deaths and the hospital deaths are consistent with what&#8217;s being displayed by the CDC,&#8221; Hochul said Wednesday. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things that weren&#8217;t happening and I&#8217;m going to make them happen. Transparency will be the hallmark of my administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hochul was elected Cuomo&#8217;s lieutenant governor in 2014 and held the office for the entirety of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo resigned Monday after <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/new-york-ag-says-gov-cuomo-sexually-harassed-multiple-women-broke-laws\/\">a state attorney general&#8217;s investigation<\/a> this month found he sexually harassed 11 women. The former governor initially <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/flashback-scandal-plagued-cuomo-got-lavish-praise-from-media\/\">received praise<\/a> from the media for his leadership during the pandemic, but another investigation, this one into his administration&#8217;s handling of the health crisis, compromised that picture of competent governance.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general&#8217;s report, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/new-york-undercounted-covid-deaths-in-nursing-homes-by-50-report-says\/\">released in January<\/a>, found state health officials undercounted COVID deaths linked to nursing homes by approximately 50 percent. It also identified Cuomo&#8217;s March 2020 order, which mandated that nursing homes admit residents who had been diagnosed with COVID, as a possible driver of nursing home fatalities. The order also potentially obscured the true number of COVID deaths because it &#8220;prohibited nursing homes from requiring COVID-19 testing as a criterion for admission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New York has the second-highest per capita COVID death rate throughout the pandemic, surpassed only by New Jersey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.), who took office this week in the wake of Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s resignation, acknowledged nearly 12,000 additional deaths from COVID-19 that went uncounted when Cuomo &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}