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In a bombshell report out Thursday, The New York Times exposed how New York State’s Health Department was undercounting nursing home deaths by up to 50 percent. It was a staggering revelation considering Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo was the one who ordered elderly COVID patients be returned to their long term care facilities. But later that evening, both ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News completely ignored the scandal, dubbed #CuomoCoverUp on Twitter.
While ABC and CBS reported on GM no longer making gas-powered cars and a snowy owl spotted in New York, respectively, NBC Nightly News was the lone broadcast network to give the New York Times piece any coverage (1 minute and 25 seconds).
“Tonight, New York State accused of undercounting COVID nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent,” NBC correspondent Kristen Dahlgren reported. “The results of a months-long investigation by the state attorney general. The scathing 76-page report finding the state didn’t report nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 in the hospital.”
Dahlgren even spoke with the daughter of one of Cuomo’s victims, who argued that third-graders were smarter than the Governor.
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