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ALBANY—-(77WABC)
The Justice Department has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response, according to a letter sent Friday to several Republican members of Congress.
Under former President Donald Trump’s administration, the department’s civil rights division requested data last August from four states — New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan — about the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in public nursing homes.
The request came amid still-unanswered questions about whether some states, especially New York, inadvertently worsened the pandemic death toll by requiring nursing homes to accept residents previously hospitalized for COVID-19.
Biden DOJ drops civil rights probe of Gov. Cuomo over nursing homes and COVID-19 https://t.co/ua8g9w29qP pic.twitter.com/cWOPckBtp3
— New York Post (@nypost) July 24, 2021
