In a bombshell report out Thursday, The New York Occasions uncovered how New York State’s Well being Division was undercounting nursing residence deaths by as much as 50 %. It was a staggering revelation contemplating Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo was the one who ordered aged COVID sufferers be returned to their long run care amenities. However later that night, each ABC’s World Information Tonight and the CBS Night Information fully ignored the scandal, dubbed #CuomoCoverUp on Twitter.
Whereas ABC and CBS reported on GM now not making gas-powered automobiles and a snowy owl noticed in New York, respectively, NBC Nightly Information was the lone broadcast community to offer The Occasions piece any protection (1 minute and 25 seconds).
“Tonight, New York State accused of undercounting COVID nursing residence deaths by as a lot as 50 %,” NBC correspondent Kristen Dahlgren reported. “The outcomes of a months-long investigation by the state legal professional common. The scathing 76-page report discovering the state didn’t report nursing residence residents who died from COVID-19 within the hospital.”
Dahlgren even spoke with the daughter of one in all Cuomo’s victims, who argued that third-graders have been smarter than the Governor (click on “increase”):
DAHLGREN: Daybreak Bess’ mother died in a Lengthy Island nursing residence final April.
DAWN BESS: Horrible. By no means ought to have occurred. By no means ought to have occurred.
DAHLGREN: She says her mother died of dehydration in a house overrun with COVID after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo opening nursing houses to COVID sufferers to unencumber hospital beds.
BESS: A 3rd-grader would know to not ship COVID sufferers right into a nursing residence.
Somebody get Jeff Foxworthy on that.
When questions have been first being raised about Cuomo’s failed management, he was a liberal media darling, even calling him the “acting-president.” And the networks covered up (together with NBC) the bipartisan requires an investigation from state lawmakers. They’ve additionally been largely silent on Cuomo’s other disastrous order that made hospitals throw out vaccine doses.
And a few of their adulations have been simply embarrassing. Final fall CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King praised him in an interview as a “arduous fact” teller. Then there was CBS Sunday Morning host Jane Pauley who was openly flirting with the brand new eligible bachelor.
However again in Could, NBC was additionally the printed community stand out when they first reported on Cuomo’s nursing home scandal. They even chided what he had performed and in contrast him to different governors. “That quantity climbing quick. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont thinks forcing nursing houses to take COVID optimistic sufferers, as most states are doing, is a path to catastrophe,” reported senior investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden, on the time.
Routine NewsBusters readers know that we’ve coated Fox Information Channel’s senior meteorologist Janice Dean’s battle with Cuomo’s corruption, as she’s tried to seek out justice for her in-laws who died due to his order.
In an look hours earlier on The Faulkner Focus, she had this to say concerning the bombshell revelations (click on “increase”):
I do not actually know what to say. After I noticed the report, and I knew that it was coming in all probability an hour earlier than it was launched, I referred to as my husband and I referred to as my sister-in-law and I mentioned that possibly the angels received, possibly the angels can have their day in courtroom and possibly this governor will probably be held accountable, Harris. I did not need to be on this place. I am not a political particular person, however my household was affected and I wasn’t seeing the protection. I wasn’t seeing the questions being requested of this governor. He continued to go the blame on everybody else and the whole lot else. And he nonetheless to this present day is not going to settle for any duty. And there have been lawsuits and there have been journalists that needed to do good and get these numbers for the entire households that deserve them. And eventually as we speak, there’s a ray of sunshine. There’s sunshine in darkness. And I thank this legal professional common, I do know that there have been hundreds of households which have written letters and have needed to have solutions. And I am so grateful on behalf of all of them for giving me love and assist, as a result of that is by no means a task I believed I might ever be in Harris. However I am so grateful as we speak that justice is likely to be served.
Hopefully, this investigation was the start of the street to justice for the numerous households destroyed by Cuomo’s incompetence. Which, sarcastically, he warned against on Tuesday.
Between scandals resembling this one and the rising psychological toll of the pandemic (such this Illinois mother, who misplaced her son to suicide), there is a plethora of issues that authorities officers like Cuomo and his buddies throughout the nation need to reply for.
And it was solely just some days in the past that somebody warned “incompetent authorities can kill individuals.” That man? Andrew Cuomo.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo repeats his line that “incompetent authorities can kill individuals. This isn’t a joke.”
Right. Your incompetence and hubris killed hundreds of aged New Yorkers in nursing houses. pic.twitter.com/6qo25zTzr6
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 26, 2021
This disgusting cover-up of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing residence physique depend was made potential due to profitable sponsorships from Fidelity on ABC and CBS. CBS Night Information has additionally requested individuals to textual content anchor Norah O’Donnell at this quantity: (202) 217-1107.
The transcript is beneath, click on “increase” to learn:
NBC Nightly Information
January 28, 2021
7:04:30 p.m. JapLESTER HOLT: A surprising new discovering by officers in New York, the state well being division severely undercounted the variety of COVID deaths amongst nursing residence residents. Kristen Dahlgren has particulars for us.
[Cuts to video]
KRISTEN DAHLGREN: Tonight, New York State accused of undercounting COVID nursing residence deaths by as a lot as 50 %. The outcomes of a months-long investigation by the state legal professional common. The scathing 76-page report discovering the state didn’t report nursing residence residents who died from COVID-19 within the hospital. Whereas claiming some nursing houses did not isolate COVID sufferers.
Daybreak Bess’ mother died in a Lengthy Island nursing residence final April.
DAWN BESS: Horrible. By no means ought to have occurred. By no means ought to have occurred.
DAHLGREN: She says her mother died of dehydration in a house overrun with COVID after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo opening nursing houses to COVID sufferers to unencumber hospital beds.
BESS: A 3rd-grader would know to not ship COVID sufferers right into a nursing residence.
DAHLGREN: Cuomo declined to remark. However in an announcement, New York State’s well being commissioner denied an undercount. Saying, the division of well being “persistently reported numbers based mostly on the place of demise.”
Tonight, New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera urging the Governor to launch “correct knowledge,” which he says they’ve been requesting for months. Including: “Households who misplaced family members deserve sincere solutions.”
One thing Daybreak Bess continues to be trying to find. Kristen Dahlgren NBC Information.
