House COVID Panel Demands Answers From Former Cuomo Top Aide on Nursing Home Deaths

Published on December 12, 2023

Members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic are pushing one of former Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aides for information about the state’s widely maligned COVID-19 nursing home policies. Subcommittee chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) announced in a Dec. 11 press release they had requested Melissa DeRosa sit for a transcribed interview and provide documents related to New York’s COVID-19 nursing home order. The committee seeks testimony and documents related to Ms. DeRosa’s role in the March. 25, 2020, New York Department of Health (NYDOH) order forcing nursing home operators to accept residents who had tested positive for COVID-19....

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