08/25/2021 1:44 PM
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Updated 08/25/2021 2:21 PM
The administration of the new governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, revealed that in the state there are 12 thousand more deaths from covid than the figures shown by the previous management of the resigned Andrew Cuomo.
To arrive at that figure, Hochul included in the state count, the figures of the federal authorities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English), which register
almost 12,000 more deaths
than state institutions.
The website of the New York Department of Health, which until now collected the figure of 43,415 deaths, has also included the CDC data, which now reflects
a total of 55,395 deaths
since the pandemic began.
Kathy Hochul seeks transparent management.
Photo: AP
This change has occurred just 24 hours after the governor took office to replace Andrew Cuomo, who resigned under pressure from a dozen accusations of sexual harassment and while he was being investigated for his management of nursing homes in the hardest moments of the pandemic.
Deaths in nursing homes
The Department of Health indicates that the state figure collects the confirmed data of daily deaths according to the information provided by
hospitals, geriatric residences and centers for helping
people in need.
Regarding the CDC figure, it is indicated that it includes the deceased in those centers and in any other place such as in houses or shelters for the homeless.
We are releasing more data than has reached the public, Hochul said.
Photo: AP
"We are releasing more data than has reached the public so that people know that deaths in nursing homes and hospitals are consistent with the figures released by the CDC," Hochul said Wednesday on MSNBC. "There are many. things that didn't happen and
I'll make them happen
.
Transparency will be the currency of my government. ''
The Associated Press was the first to report in July on the discrepancy between mortality figures released by the Cuomo administration and those it sent to the CDC.
Among other causes, Cuomo faces a legislative investigation
into whether he misled the public
about COVD-19 deaths in nursing homes to protect his image.
The count presented by Cuomo at his press conferences only included COVID-19 deaths
confirmed by laboratories
through a state system that gathers data from hospitals, residences and facilities that serve the elderly.
That means the count excluded deaths in homes, hospices, state prisons, or state homes for the disabled.
It also excluded people who probably died of COVID-19 but
without the diagnosis being confirmed
by a positive test.
The lower figure preferred by the Cuomo government appeared in Tuesday's daily report, but with an explanation from Hochul's office that it was
an incomplete report.
"There are presumed and confirmed deaths. People should know about both," Hochul said in an interview Wednesday with NPR.
During the spring of 2020, New York became the main focus of the disease.
In his first speech after taking office, Hochul promised to introduce a
policy of transparency
in the new administration that he will lead, at least until the end of this term, which ends in December 2022.
AP and EFE
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