Cuomo has a lot to answer for... //

On March 25, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration ordered that nursing homes were required to accept people who had tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus. He didn’t reverse the order until the outcry became too great to ignore on May 10.

So what did that actually mean? What kind of numbers are we talking about?

Well, the AP has figured out at least part of it and it’s astonishing that the death toll isn’t even greater, given what the Cuomo did. //

More than 4,500 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that was ultimately scrapped amid criticisms it was accelerating the nation’s deadliest outbreaks, according to a count by The Associated Press.

AP compiled its own tally to find out how many COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals to nursing homes under the March 25 directive after New York’s Health Department declined to release its internal survey conducted two weeks ago. //

It’s actually now more than 5800 deaths.