Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) ordered state nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients. He later denied that such orders had been issued, but even the Democratic Party’s media mouthpiece, CNN, noted that his denial was a lie:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that nursing homes “never needed” to accept Covid-positive patients from hospitals in the state due to a shortage of hospital beds.

During a press call Wednesday, Finger Lakes News Radio asked Cuomo about his administration’s advisory in late March requiring that nursing homes accept the readmission of patients from hospitals, even if they were positive for Covid-19.

The governor’s office has repeatedly said the advisory was based on federal guidance, which prohibited discrimination based on a coronavirus diagnosis. The state’s Department of Health told CNN, “Residents were admitted to nursing homes during that time not as an overflow facility, but because that’s where they live.”

Cuomo said that the advisory was a precaution if hospitals became overwhelmed — calling it an “anticipatory rule” — which he said didn’t happen.

“We never needed nursing home beds because we always had hospital beds,” Cuomo told Finger Lakes News. “So it just never happened in New York where we needed to say to a nursing home, ‘We need you to take this person even though they’re Covid-positive.’ It never happened.”

Facts First: Cuomo’s assertion that “it never happened” is false. According to a report from the New York State Department of Health, “6,326 COVID-positive residents were admitted to [nursing home] facilities” following Cuomo’s mandate that nursing homes accept the readmission of Covid-positive patients from hospitals. Whether or not this was “needed,” it did in fact happen.

So, how many people died due to COVID-19 in nursing homes due to the Governor’s orders? The New York Times reported:

Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll

The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.

By J. David Goodman and Danny Hakim | Published March 4, 2021 | Updated March 11, 2021

Top aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo were alarmed: A report written by state health officials had just landed, and it included a count of how many nursing home residents in New York had died in the pandemic.

The number — more than 9,000 by that point in June — was not public, and the governor’s most senior aides wanted to keep it that way. They rewrote the report to take it out, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The extraordinary intervention, which came just as Mr. Cuomo was starting to write a book on his pandemic achievements, was the earliest act yet known in what critics have called a monthslong effort by the governor and his aides to obscure the full scope of nursing home deaths.

After the state attorney general revealed earlier this year that thousands of deaths of nursing home residents had been undercounted, Mr. Cuomo finally released the complete data, saying he had withheld it out of concern that the Trump administration might pursue a politically motivated inquiry into the state’s handling of the outbreak in nursing homes.

Well, of course it was “withheld” out of concern that President Trump might use it politically . . . which doesn’t explain why it was withheld after election day. And after a whole year of Fredo CNN news anchor Christopher Cuomo reporting on his own brother, CNN finally decided that no, it’s not appropriate that he do that anymore.

Of course, no one can say, for certain, how many of New York State’s nursing home deaths are directly attributable to the Governor’s decision, but it’s safe to say: a whole lot.

And now, from The Wall Street Journal:

Manhattan Law Firm to Lead Andrew Cuomo Impeachment Probe

Democratic governor faces allegations of sexual harassment and criticism over handling of Covid-19 in nursing homes

By Jimmy Vielkind | March 17, 2021 | 9:33 AM EDT

ALBANY, N.Y.—Democrats who dominate the New York state Assembly on Wednesday said that a Manhattan law firm will lead an impeachment investigation into allegations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women as well as his administration’s handling of Covid-19 in nursing homes.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP will assist the chamber’s judiciary committee in examining Mr. Cuomo’s conduct, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said.

“Hiring Davis Polk will give the committee the experience, independence and resources needed to handle this important investigation in a thorough and expeditious manner,” said Mr. Heastie, a Democrat from the Bronx.

The speaker first announced the impeachment investigation on Thursday and said Monday that he would not predict how long the inquiry would last. A vote to impeach a governor would require a majority of members in the 150-seat chamber.

Three former female aides to the governor and one woman who still works on his staff have accused Mr. Cuomo of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior. The third-term Democrat has denied he inappropriately touched anybody and apologized if any of his remarks or behavior made people uncomfortable.

Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is overseeing an investigation into the harassment claims and has already interviewed at least one of the women who complained. Mr. Cuomo has asked people to withhold judgment until that review is completed.

The governor has rebuffed calls for his resignation by senior leaders of his own party, including U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers.

There’s more at the original, including noting the nursing home investigation, but the Democrats controlling the state House of Representatives never considered impeaching the Governor over ordering people to their deaths, yet are now angry, very angry, that he may have inappropriately touched a woman or that some of his remarks or behavior made people uncomfortable.^[1]Laughably, Uber-feminist Amanda Marcotte wrote, on March 2nd, that Governor Cuomo’s alleged actions “(fall) short of sexual harassment, but more social opprobrium would help stop the … Continue reading

He’s never been accused of an actual rape or sexual assault, mind you, but he may well have behaved poorly. To the Democrats, that’s much more serious than forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients into crowded environments, primarily populated by the elderly, the most vulnerable group when it comes to the virus.

Just how f(ornicating) stupid can this be? How stupid can the Democrats get? The left are invested in complaining about Dr Seuss’ writings and maintaining fences, concertina wire and National Guard troops to defend against non-existent threats, but ignore actual deaths! The Democrats want to worry that some people might not always wear facemasks, but don’t give a damn about virtually deliberately infecting a notably vulnerable population with the virus against which those facemasks are supposed to protect! William Teach noted that the Democrats voted against a bill requiring the Department of Homeland Security Department to test all migrants crossing the border illegally that the DHS releases into the country, as though it’s important to prevent American citizens from spreading the virus, but not illegal immigrants, and not the Governor of New York.