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Governor told Finger Lakes Daily News, a local NY State radio program  that the whole ordeal “it never happened”, when talking about the order to send COVID-19 positive patients to nursing homes.

The AP  reported that as many as 4,500 persons were transferred from hospitals to nursing homes while still infected with COVID-19, and that was on May 22. But according to the governor, “it never happened.”

ProPublica, a left-leaning investigative journalism outlet investigated the nursing home COVID-19 issue in NY state in July

They found that under Cuomo’s policy, “more than 6,000 COVID-19 patients were sent from hospitals to nursing homes across the state, a move that scared and enraged many families worried about their loved ones being exposed to the deadly virus. To date, at least 6,500 nursing home residents have died of the virus, more than 6 percent of the state’s entire nursing home population.”