House Report: Andrew Cuomo's Aides Knew He Was Consigning the Elderly to Death When He Filled the Nursing Homes with Covid Patients

He also "edited" the death records to hide the number of grandmas and grandpas he murdered.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly himself "edited" a state report that deflated New York's COVID-19 death toll in nursing homes -- which his top aides pressured health officials into releasing, despite knowing the issue would turn into a "great debacle," according to the stunning results of an investigation by a US House committee.

Cuomo's office "absolutely" signed off on the disastrous directive early in the pandemic forcing coronavirus patients back into nursing homes -- leading to as many as 9,000 excess COVID deaths -- the final congressional report and witness testimonies exclusively obtained by The Post show.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic conducted the probe and majority staff released the findings ahead of a public hearing with the 66-year-old ex-governor on Tuesday.

The investigators accused Cuomo in a memo Monday of making "demonstrably false" statements as part of a "cover-up," citing conflicting testimony from his top aides.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "absolutely" signed off on the disastrous directive early in the pandemic that led to as many as 9,000 excess COVID deaths, a congressional report and witness testimonies exclusively obtained by The Post show.

"This is going to be the great debacle in the history books," wrote Cuomo aide Stephanie Benton in a June 7, 2020, email about the nursing home death count. "Don't u [sic] see how bad this is? Or do we admit error and give up?"

Four of Cuomo's aides told the House investigators they believed the email from Benton was likely dictated by the governor himself.

"Within hours" of the missive, New York health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker received "talking points" that were used to draft the audit on the nursing home deaths, which was released on July 6 and excluded out-of-facility fatalities.

The three-term Democrat and his inner circle "reviewed" and "edited" the state Department of Health report that vastly undercounted the fatalities, according to the documents.

According to Cuomo's then-director of operations, Dr. Jim Malatras, who served as a member of the governor's COVID task force, top aide Melissa DeRosa "laid out the points that she wanted to have touched upon in the report."

"The report that I was editing had the total number of fatalities in all the charts until Ms. DeRosa intervened," Malatras testified to the subcommittee.

"She was constantly editing it, Mr. Cuomo was editing it," Malatras said in his testimony.

The "editing" took the form of categorizing deaths caused by covid as "unknown" causes of death, claiming a death whose cause was known to be covid could have been any number of things. Note this is the exact opposite approach they took when they wanted to scare us all with covid, when they attributed even car accident deaths to covid if the person tested positive for covid.

Long story short: they constantly "edited" the reports and reclassified deaths so that they could not be attributed to Cuomo's murderous decision to fill nursing homes filled with those absolutely most endangered by covid with covid.

Also note that nursing homes simply do not have the expertise or equipment to properly isolate covid patients and sterilize all objects they come in contact with. Certainly they do not have the pressurized air wings to keep airborne diseases out.

But Cuomo's donors, the major hospital corporations, did not want to deal with all this, so into the nursing homes they went.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:05 PM

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