Captiol News from The Assembly Minority Conference
CAPITOL NEWS from
The Assembly Minority Conference

Statement from Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay on The Attorney General’s Nursing Home Report

“The attorney general’s report is alarming on a number of levels and triggers even more questions. What took place in New York’s nursing homes and the Cuomo Administration’s decision to deliberately mislead the public by underreporting COVID-19 fatalities is unconscionable and demands accountability.

The report indicates that as many as 13,000 nursing home residents may have died from COVID-19 – that’s more fatalities than the entire death toll of 40 states. Families, advocates, members of the media and lawmakers demanded the truth for months. But this administration dismissed those questions as a politically motivated agenda and went so far as to concoct a Department of Health report that absolved the Department of Health.

Our governor actually wrote a book about leadership in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as we learned today, and as many suspected, he never told the whole story.”