EDITORIAL ‘Who Cares?’ Asks Cuomo, But COVID-19 Answers Needed We’ve seen it happen here. On Dec. 28, Cooperstown Center – the former Otsego Manor, now in private hands – advised its Family Council that two residents had died – not necessarily OF COVID, but WITH COVID. Officially, one died of a bleeding hernia, the other of sepsis, at Bassett Hospital, NOT at the nursing home. The Cuomo Administration’s Health Department took this kind of parsing a step further: Statewide, if a nursing home resident with COVID was transferred to a hospital and died there, he or she was counted as…
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