Gov. Polis take note: A congressional panel has subpoenaed former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo to explain excessive nursing home deaths under his watch during the covid pandemic.
Cuomo forced nursing homes to house untested patients at the height of the pandemic in which thousands of patients died, reports The Washington Times.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, the Ohio Republican who chairs the pandemic subcommittee, said that evidence suggests Mr. Cuomo engaged in a cover-up of the extent of the New York nursing home mortality rate.
“Not only did the former governor put the elderly in harm’s way, but he also attempted to cover up his failures by hiding the true nursing home death rate. It appears that politics, not medicine, was responsible for these decisions,” he said in a statement.
This will sound familiar to PeakNation™, who learned that defective covid tests through a $90 million no-bid purchase may have created the perfect storm for Colorado nursing home deaths in 2020.
An investor in the testing company is a major Polis contributor who pitched the tests to the state for use during the pandemic, according to The Gazette.
Records show that Gary Lauder, the grandson of the founder of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company, was an influential backer of San Dimas, Calif.,-based Curative Labs, which snagged a $90 million contract to provide surveillance testing in Colorado nursing homes, where one of every 15 residents died from the coronavirus. Lauder, a financial donor for Democrats, introduced Curative’s 25-year-old chief executive officer, Fred Turner, a college dropout who turned heads through some of his entrepreneurial endeavors, and Kacey Wulff, Polis’ pandemic adviser.
But wait, there’s more:
Colorado had the worst rate of death per occupied nursing home beds in the U.S. between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2020..
Stunningly, Colorado’s nursing home death rate during this period was twice the rate of death as the national average.
The stunning revelations first appeared in an exhaustive report by Colorado Public Radio in 2021.
Colorado nursing homes reported a staggering 1,118 COVID-19 deaths between November and January, yet their pleas to the state that something was wrong with the tests fell on deaf ears.
It wasn’t until two weeks after the FDA issued a warning about the tests in January that the state finally pulled the tests from use.
Read more about the testing failures and Polis’s connection here, here, and here.
Even this guy admitted the report by CPR rocked Polis’s world.
This is exceptional journalism from @CPRMarkus and the kind of thing that @GovofCO should answer for. (@CPRNews says Polis declined interview requests) https://t.co/yY8P2Z3MlS
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 24, 2021
Polis refuses to this day to answer questions about this tragedy.
Maybe Congress should issue a subpoena to Polis so grieving families can finally get the answers they deserve.