by Nolan Hicks, Sam Raskin and Bruce Golding
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cover-up of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 hid nearly 1,900 fatalities in New York City alone — with new figures sending the tally at one Queens facility skyrocketing more than 1,000 percent.
A Post analysis of the latest state Health Department data shows that 5,443 nursing home residents have been killed by the coronavirus in the Big Apple.
That statistic includes 1,885 seniors who died in hospitals and weren’t included in the official DOH count of nursing home deaths until the Cuomo administration finally began releasing their numbers, under duress, in the wake of a damning report last month from state Attorney General Letitia James.
In New York City, the new figures push the total nursing home death count up by 53 percent, according to the analysis of DOH data current as of Saturday.
That’s just shy of the 56 percent undercount that James estimated in her report.
The Post analysis also revealed that nearly all of the 162 city nursing homes that reported COVID-19 deaths inside their walls — 152 — had residents die after being sent to hospitals for treatment.
They include the Park Terrace Care Center in Corona, where only three residents were actually killed by the virus at the facility.
But another 31 residents died at hospitals, pushing the true death toll there to 34 — a staggering, 1,033 percent increase.
A Queens resident whose 72-year-old mother lives at Park Terrace was outraged to learn of the numbers, calling them “appalling” and saying he’d thought that “maybe a handful of residents” had died…
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