Albany: New York Governor Kathy Hochul promises more government transparency on his first day in the office and at the end of his government day quietly conveyed it by recognizing nearly 12,000 deaths in the state of Covid-19 than published by his predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
New York now reported nearly 55,400 people who have died because Covid-19 in New York based on Death Certificate data submitted to the CDC, up from around 43,400 the government has reported to the public on Monday, his last day in the office.
“We now release more data than those released before publicly, so people know the death of nursing houses and hospital deaths are consistent with what is displayed by the CDC,” Hochul said at MSNBC.
“There are many things that don’t happen and I’ll make it happen.
Transparency will be a characteristic of my administration.” The Associated Press was first reported in July about the big difference between the mortality rate published by the Administration and Cuomo Numbers of the country reported to control centers and Prevention of disease.
The count used by Cuomo in the release of the news media only included Covid-19 death which was confirmed by laboratories reported through the state system that collected data from hospitals, nursing homes, and adult care facilities.
That means people who are excluded with calculations who die at home, hospitals, in state prisons or in homes managed by countries for people who live with disabilities.
It also excludes people who are likely to die because of Covid-19 but have never received a positive test to confirm the diagnosis.
The lower number favored by the Administration of Cuomo still appears in the daily update issued by the Hochul office on Tuesday, but with an explanation of why it is an incomplete amount.
“There are deaths that are considered and confirmed.
People must know both,” Hochul said in a Wednesday morning appearance at the NPR.
“Also, yesterday, we used the CDC number, which would be consistent.
And so there is no chance for us to cover the numbers, I also don’t want to cover the numbers.
The public deserves a clear and honest picture of about What happened.
And whether it’s good or bad, they need to know the truth.
And that’s how we restore confidence.
“Cuomo’s critics had long collected that he manipulated the Coronavirus statics to burn his image as a leader of a pandemic.
The Federal Prosecutor previously launched the probe that examined the handling of its government data around the death between nursing homes.
The state, under Cuomo, has minimized the death of home home killing death by excluding all patients who died after being transferred to the hospital.
Cuomo used lower numbers last year to mistakenly claim that New York saw a much smaller percentage of nurse residents who were dying in Covid-19 than other countries.
The State Assembly Jairy Committee has also investigated the problem as part of a broad importment probe, and burdens whether to include these findings in public reports.