Over 4,300 CCP Virus Patients Sent to NY Nursing Homes, New Count Shows

Emergency Medical Service workers unload a patient out of their ambulance at the Cobble Hill Health Center in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 18, 2020. Justin Heiman/Getty Images

More than 4,300 CCP virus patients were sent to New York nursing homes under a controversial state directive, according to a new count.

The Associated Press compiled the tally after New York’s Department of Health declined to make public an internal survey it conducted two weeks ago.