NY Ordered to Release Data on State’s COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths

NY Ordered to Release Data on State’s COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths
File photo of emergency medical workers unloading a patient outside a nursing home in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 18, 2020. Justin Heiman/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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A New York Supreme Court justice has ordered state officials to turn over complete data on nursing home deaths from COVID-19, following a months-long campaign to seek their release.

Justice Kimberly O’Connor wrote in a Feb. 3 decision (pdf) that the New York Department of Health (DOH) must release the data within five business days of the ruling.
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Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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