Andrew Cuomo to testify before Congressional panel on COVID response
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Washington — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to testify publicly before a Republican-led House subcommittee next week on his administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes, the panel announced on Tuesday.
Cuomo's administration has faced significant criticism for how it handled nursing home residents who contracted COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic. New York mandated in March 2020 that nursing homes must admit patients who tested positive for COVID. The administration was later accused of underreporting deaths in nursing homes, including by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who released a 2021 report asserting that the state may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing home patients by as much as 50%.
"Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York's nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic," the chairman of the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, said in a statement.
