New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference on Monday that he made a “mistake” in not providing information about nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in a timely fashion. But Cuomo continued to defend his and his administration’s handling of the crisis, saying he would trust his top health adviser, Dr. Howard Zucker, with “my mother’s care.”

Cuomo has long faced criticism for his administration’s handling of the release of data related to deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes, which intensified last week when one of his top aides admitted that they were concerned the data was “going to be used against us.”

In recent weeks, the state has been forced to acknowledge the nursing home resident death toll is nearly 15,000. The state had previously reported a death toll of 8,500 — a number that …continued .
[Source: CBS News]