It is both revealing and unsurprising to learn how bad of a governor Andrew Cuomo truly was.
It has taken very little time at all for Kathy Hochul, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York taking over for Andrew Cuomo, to make an impact in her new leadership role. On her initial foray into the governor’s mansion, she makes the announcement that there will be a correction to the state’s official COVID-19 death totals, correcting the record from her predecessor.
Based on the fact that the Cuomo administration had employed a very skewed protocol to their tabulation methods — one that differed from the standard set by the CDC — the state’s official death count had been significantly lowered. Hochul has announced that she will now be counting a figure which includes close to 12,000 additional deaths, meaning that Andrew Cuomo had been artificially depressing the figure by over 25%.
“We’re now releasing more data than had been released before publicly, so people know the nursing home deaths and the hospital deaths are consistent with what’s being displayed by the CDC,” Hochul said Wednesday on MSNBC. “There’s a lot of things that weren’t happening and I’m going to make them happen. Transparency will be the hallmark of my administration.”