Andrew Cuomo is slated to testify before Congress on Tuesday to answer for his policy that sent positive COVID patients back to nursing homes.
the former governor in March. It set June 11 as the date for testimony after several months of scheduling delays.
“Not only did the former Governor put the elderly in harm’s way, but he also attempted to cover-up his failures by hiding the true nursing home death rate,” Wenstrup said.nursing homes from denying readmission or admission on the basis of a positive COVID test. The former governor has publicly argued even after leaving office that the controversial order followed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance at the time.
Initial drafts of the nursing home deaths report counted the figure as 9,844 attributable to the policy instead of the 6,432 that were in the final report. Wenstrup said in a press statement that Cuomo’s testimony “is crucial to uncover the circumstances that led to his misguided policies and for ensuring that fatal mistakes never happen again.”
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