New York Officials Acknowledge Leaving Data Out of COVID-19 Nursing Home Death Report

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference before the opening of a mass vaccination site in the Queens borough of New York on Feb. 24, 2021. Seth Wenig/Pool via Reuters

New York officials on Thursday confirmed they omitted nursing home resident death data from a report on COVID-19 last year.

The report was released by the New York State Department of Health. It claimed that a March 2020 order from state officials wasn’t to blame for thousands of nursing home residents dying from COVID-19. The report received criticism, with one lawmaker saying it contained numerous flaws.