WASHINGTON — With the memory of the pandemic’s toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief law is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people. The coronavirus pandemic starkly exposed the vulnerability of nursing home residents. Only about 1% of the U.S. population lives in long-term care facilities, but they accounted for about one-third of COVID-19 deaths as of early March, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

‘There’s over 12,000 senior deaths, that’s half of the Covid deaths in Pennsylvania’ White House press secretary Jen Psaki was pressured by a reporter over Rachel Levine’s connection to the Pennsylvania nursing home scandal at Monday’s White House press briefing.

When asked about Levine, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Assistant Health Secretary, Psaki denied the Pennslyvania scandal was comparable to nursing homes in New York, as the reporter suggested. Psaki also avoided discussing Levine’s connection to the nursing home deaths.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo must be held accountable for his administration’s botched handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes and adult-care centers, state Assemblyman Ron Kim said Sunday — at a Brooklyn memorial for the more than 15,000 facility residents believed to have died from the virus. Addressing dozens of mourners who came out to the emotional…

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The inquiry has added to the legal pressure faced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his aides over the deaths of nursing home residents from Covid-19.

A Staten Island nursing home administrator told Fox News in an exclusive interview that he and executives at other facilities were “petrified” by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s infamous March 2020 order that COVID-positive patients be placed in long-term care facilities rather than hospitals. However, Michael Kraus told Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie that his concerns were “shot down” by state officials…

Celebrities were in love with and fawned over New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during the early days of the pandemic but now are strangely silent as he faces dual scandals between mandating infected patients back into nursing homes and numerous sexual misconduct allegations. In 2020, comedian Chelsea Handler claimed she was “pretty hot for” Cuomo. […]

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by Mary Margaret Olohan

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is “not a nice person” who “doesn’t have any friends,” according to the former lieutenant governor of New York.

Former New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch discussed the governor’s fall from grace in an interview with the New York Times after the majority of the New York Democratic congressional delegation called for Cuomo’s resignation.

“The problem with Cuomo is no one has ever liked him,” Ravitch told the publication. “He’s not a nice person and he doesn’t have any real friends.”

“If you don’t have a base of support and you get into trouble,” he added, “you’re dead meat.”

Cuomo faces two separate investigations: one by the attorney general’s office into allegations of workplace sexual misconduct, and another from the Department of Justice into his role in undercounting nursing home deaths in New York.

The governor, who has denied that he ever inappropriately touched anyone, said Friday that no one wants the reviews to conclude “more quickly and more thoroughly” than he does.

“As I said previously, I have never done anything like this,” Cuomo said in a Thursday statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation after a sixth accuser said that he groped her at the Governor’s Mansion. “The details of this report are gut-wrenching. I am not going to speak to the specifics of this or any other allegation given the ongoing review, but I am confident in the result of the Attorney General’s report.”

New York State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi also told the Times that she has not “met a person yet in New York politics who has a good relationship with Andrew Cuomo.”

“And I’m not saying ‘close relationship,’ I’m saying ‘good relationship.’ Even people who are close to him I cannot say in good faith have a good relationship with him,” Biaggi, who is an outspoken Cuomo critic, added.

Cuomo has refused to resign, calling for New Yorkers to wait for the results of the investigations into his conduct.

“New Yorkers know me,” Cuomo said.

The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.
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Mary Margaret Olohan is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Gov Andrew Cuomo” by NY MTA CC2.0 and “Richard Ravtich is by Matt Ryan CC3.0

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is refusing to step down despite growing calls for his resignation after multiple accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct, as well as his cover-up of thousands of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. Alessandra Biaggi, a New York state senator representing parts of the Bronx and Westchester, says it’s long past time for Cuomo to go and that the many scandals surrounding the governor reveal a consistent pattern. “The governor has not only abused his position of power, but he has used it in a way that is political and as a way to have the executive branch essentially protect himself and not the people of New York,” says Biaggi.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of being “in the way” of saving lives by defying calls to resign over his handling of the state’s CCP virus response and the mounting sexual harassment allegations against him. Cuomo, 63, has been accused of harassment by at least seven women, some of whom are former aides. He has also been under fire for withholding COVID-19 death data from state lawmakers and the public. “He should resign right now because he’s holding up our effort to fight COVID,” de Blasio, a Democrat told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “He’s literally in the way of us saving lives right now.” In January, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, published a report that found that the state under-counted nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent, while The New York Post later reported that one of …