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New York’s new state health commissioner stepped into the role Wednesday, at a time when COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise in the state.
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Dr. Mary T. Bassett will be the next commissioner of the state Department of Health, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday, making her the next top official in New York to lead the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Howard Zucker, who became embroiled in a controversy over the true number of nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, submitted his resignation on Thursday.
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Critics of some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic marked the anniversary of the controversial March 25, 2020 order…
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo broke days of silence over escalating accusations that he and his top aides deliberately withheld for months, key COVID-19 death numbers…
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic…
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Monday’s public hearing on the COVID-19 crisis in upstate New York nursing homes will likely feature talk about reforming visitation policies and a lack…
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The New York State Legislature on Monday held the first of two hearings on the thousands of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents.Questions to Gov.…
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democratic and Republican state lawmakers grilled New York’s top health official Monday about the steep, though ultimately unknown…
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New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker issued a report Monday on the likely cause of deaths from COVID-19 in New York’s nursing homes that…