{"id":2542,"date":"2021-02-09T21:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2021-02-09T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:46:31","slug":"cuomo-admin-has-one-day-to-follow-justice-oconnors-directive-and-fully-release-all-nursing-home-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/cuomo-admin-has-one-day-to-follow-justice-oconnors-directive-and-fully-release-all-nursing-home-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo Admin has one day to follow Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s directive and fully release all nursing home data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"We know we only got the overall COVID-19 nursing home death toll numbers because Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) were embarrassed by the Attorney General\u2019s bombshell report and thanks to Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s ruling on the Empire Center\u2019s lawsuit that I filed an amicus brief on.<\/div>\n
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While the DOH this weekend released the cumulative statewide number of nursing home and elder care facility deaths (14,932 people \u2013 an increase in 1,516 deaths revealed in the past few days), they have yet to release a breakdown of how many deaths occurred on each day in each elder care facility since the pandemic began, as ordered by Justice O\u2019Connor.<\/div>\n
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Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s ruling directed the DOH to publicly disclose to the Empire Center and myself all the requested information by Wednesday, February 10th.<\/div>\n
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I’m urging Governor Cuomo and the DOH to fully follow New York State Supreme Court Justice Kimberly A. O\u2019Connor\u2019s ruling and publicly release all requested data related to the deaths of nursing home residents who were transferred to hospitals last year and died from the coronavirus.<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s critical lawmakers, the media and public get the daily breakdown of nursing home\/elder care deaths to see what if any role the controversial March 25th executive order by the Governor barring the testing of those being placed or returning to nursing homes \u2013 making New York the only state in the nation with such a policy \u2013 played in contributing to this staggering death toll.<\/div>\n
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As Justice O\u2019Connor said in her decision, Governor Cuomo, Commissioner Howard Zucker and DOH violated the open government law by not giving all the data requested, which she deemed to be public information. Cuomo and Zucker continue to violate the law by withholding the daily death numbers and dates.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m calling on Governor Cuomo and Commissioner Zucker to follow the law and immediately release this important public information and these numbers and dates so an investigation can yield the actions surrounding this tragedy of the deaths of close to 15,000 of our most vulnerable citizens. The families of those who lost their lives and all New Yorkers deserve to know — and we as legislators need to know to better protect them for the future.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We know we only got the overall COVID-19 nursing home death toll numbers because Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health (DOH) were embarrassed by the Attorney General\u2019s bombshell report and thanks to Justice O\u2019Connor\u2019s ruling on the Empire Center\u2019s lawsuit that I filed an amicus brief on. While the DOH this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civmixvoices.com\/tedisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}