On Friday, a member of Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 task force denied any role in changing the Health Department’s report from coronovirus to cover the state’s true nursing home death toll.
It was claimed by SUNY Chancellor Jim Maltras that he blamed for the undercount of officers, including Cuomo’s Avatar top aide, Melissa Derasa, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and Linda Leswell, the state’s financial department superintendent.
Malatra and the other three were Identified by The Wall Street Journal Among Cuomo’s advisors are those who reviewed and requested changes to the July 6 report, which stated on release that 6,432 nursing-home residents had died of COVID-19.
The initial version put the death count at around 10,000, with information about a source telling the journal how the report was prepared.
The report also concluded that DOH’s controversial, March 25 directive for nursing homes to accept COOH-19 patients was not responsible for spreading the infection among potentially vulnerable residents and instead offered asymptomatic activists and visitors. Pointed finger at
During a news conference on Friday afternoon in The Bronx, Malatrus said he was asked to “help provide reviews and feedback on the scientific language in that public report to make it more accessible to general audiences.” “
“That’s the right role, while I worked on dozens of reports at the Rockefeller Institute of Government because they were close to publication,” he said.
“As with many reports, there were back and forth with structure, citations and other language during the process, but to be clear, I included the fatal data provided by the New York State Department of Health, which I did not alter and alter. did.”
In a prepared statement released later on Friday, Cuomo’s special counsel Beth Garvey said “COVID taskforce members including Melvissa Derasa, Linda Leswell and Jim Malatras were involved in reviewing the draft report – any of those fatal numbers Or ‘converted’ fatal data. “
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