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Five years after the pandemic, Andrew Cuomo is still gaslighting New Yorkers about how many people died in nursing homes.
The latest example came during the mayoral debate. When challenged about his handling of COVID in nursing homes, Cuomo cited what has become his favorite statistic:
“When you look at the total death toll in New York, the rate of death in nursing homes, we’re No. 38 out of 50 states,” he declared. “Only 12 states had a lower rate of death than New York — which is incredible in my opinion, since we had it first and worst.”
That claim really is incredible — because it’s not true.
Cuomo’s boast is based on numbers gathered by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, a seemingly reliable source. Unfortunately, the agency didn’t start tracking the pandemic in nursing homes until mid-May 2020 — and made it optional for homes to report deaths earlier in the crisis.
As a result, CMS failed to record most of what happened in March, April and early May 2020, which was the deadliest period of New York’s first wave. For all of 2020, CMS counted fewer than 6,000 deaths in the state’s nursing homes, compared to 11,400 tallied by the state’s own Health Department.
Thus Cuomo’s 38-out-of-50 ranking is based on pretending that almost 5,500 deaths didn’t happen. In other words, he’s still falsifying the facts about a public health tragedy.
Properly correcting the ranking isn’t possible because CMS is missing data from other states, too. It’s clear, however, that nearly doubling New York’s 2020 death toll would put it among the worst performers, not the best. --->READ MORE HERE
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The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men.
Myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation that is usually mild, emerged as a complication after the first shots became widely available in 2021. Prescribing information from both Pfizer and Moderna already advises doctors about the issue.
In April, the FDA sent letters to both drugmakers asking them to update and expand the warnings to add more detail about the problem and to cover a larger group of patients. While the FDA can mandate label changes, the process is often more of a negotiation with companies.
Specifically, the new warning lists the risk of myocarditis as 8 cases per 1 million people who got the 2023-2024 COVID shots between the ages of 6 months and 64 years old. The label also notes that the problem has been most common among males ages 12 to 24. The previous label said the problem mostly occurs in 12- to 17-year-olds.
The FDA’s labeling change appears to conflict with some prior findings of scientists elsewhere in the U.S. government.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously concluded there was no increased risk of myocarditis detected in government vaccine injury databases for COVID-19 shots dating back to 2022. Officials also noted that cases tend to resolve quickly and are less severe than those associated with COVID-19 infection itself, which can also cause myocarditis. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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