When the pandemic began, NY Governor Cuomo's administration issued an order to nursing homes in the state that required them to admit patients who were infected with the corona virus. According to the governor, it a home didn't have the ability or the facilities to safely care for the patient, it didn't have to admit that patient, but that is NOT what the order said. The order just said the homes had to take the patients with the virus, and that is what the nursing homes did. As a result of that order, infected patients were put in the majority of the nursing homes across the state, and it spread the virus to the single most vulnerable population in New York. Estimates are that eleven thousand or more elderly and sick people died in these nursing homes as a result of that order. It was one of the most negligent and disgusting moves ever made by the state of New York.
After about a month, the virus was shut out of the nursing homes once proper precautions were taken to keep infected patients OUT and put into places designed to contain the virus. Governor Cuomo of New York, however, wouldn't even admit that the order had been a mistake in the first place. His order killed 11,000 people but Cuomo denied it all. Moves were made to have an independent investigation in the state of what had happened, but Cuomo quashed all attempts at investigation. His strategy was to stonewall and cover up.
Now that strategy is crumbling. The Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, served a subpoena on New York and three other states seeking information about how the nursing home mess came about. The DOJ is acting under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, a law that protects the rights of those who cannot easily speak for themselves.
My guess is that there are a lot of very nervous people in the governor's office in Albany. Cuomo is famous for shifting blame for misdeeds onto those who work for him. The question in Albany right now must be worrying about who Cuomo is going to pick as the victim for this mess.
Hopefully, DOJ won't fall for the usual Cuomo nonsense.
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