New York Admits to Intentionally Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths After Changing Reporting Rules, Report Says

An exclusive report shows that the New York State Department of Health appears to have manipulated its nursing home death toll by quietly changing the way it was reporting long-term care deaths around April 28.

Essentially, per the report, New York's eldercare home death toll omits anyone who contracted COVID-19 while living at a nursing home but died in a hospital.