Nursing Home Disclosures Taint Cuomo’s Pandemic Performance

Nursing Home Disclosures Taint Cuomo’s Pandemic Performance
Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, is joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as she speaks to reporters during a news conference, in New York, on Sept. 14, 2018. Mary Altaffer/File, AP
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ALBANY, N.Y.—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who wrote a book on his managing of the COVID-19 crisis, now faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents.

State lawmakers called for investigations, stripping Cuomo of his emergency powers and even his resignation after new details emerged this week about why certain nursing home data was kept under wraps for months, despite requests from lawmakers and others.