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The state's public death toll for nursing homes does not include residents who died from the coronavirus after having been transferred to hospitals, only deaths that occurred at facilities. Attorney General Letitia James' report examined 62 nursing homes — about 10 percent of the state's total — and found that New York's approach left a large number of hospital deaths out of the state's official nursing home death toll.
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Cuomo had previously been under fire for a March directive ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients discharged by hospitals. His aim was to clear much-needed hospital beds, but nursing home leaders said they feared that the directive contributed to the virus’s spread, and Cuomo reversed it.
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New York's health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker denied that the state had undercounted nursing home deaths, saying the state had always made it clear that its data included only deaths that occurred at facilities, not outside them. Because the attorney general's report examined only a fraction of the state's nursing homes and the state's audit continues, the full death toll is still unknown.