Cuomo aides altered nursing home deaths report, health department confirms

• New York governor's aides omitted 9,250 deaths from report
• Administration says changes were due to accuracy concerns

The New York state health department on Friday afternoon confirmed reports that members of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Covid-19 taskforce altered a report from that same health department in order to omit the full number of nursing home patients killed by the coronavirus.

But Cuomo's administration insisted the changes were made because of concerns about the data's accuracy.