https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew...gation-n324591
In August the New York State Legislature made a request to the Governor’s Office for data on deaths of patients in nursing homes attributed to COVID-19.
The NY Department of Health collects data in real-time regarding deaths of nursing home patients, and in August 2020 the DOH website showed only 6500 such deaths. But there was widespread speculation in the media and in the Legislature that this number was not accurate. Legislation was proposed — but never passed — that would have addressed what was thought to be a hole in the reporting. The DOH was only recording deaths of nursing homes’ patients who died in the nursing home, but this fact was not clear from the data on the website.

On Thursday it was revealed that a Secretary to the Governor, Melissa De Rosa, apologized to lawmakers in a conference call for purposely withholding the accurate information. Not included in the data on the DOH website were deaths of nursing homes’ patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19, and died while still in the hospital or some other location like an assisted-living facility. The actual number of nursing homes’ patients who died of COVID-19 is over 15,000. The 6500 number reflected only nursing homes’ patients who died in their nursing home although the Governor’s Office made it seem like that was the total number of COVID deaths in that segment of the population.

So it is a Conspiracy now?