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In March 2020, Dr. Howard Zucker had his name on the infamous ‘Cuomo Death Order’ that has been blamed for the deaths of thousands of nursing residents.
The New York State Health Department’s order stated that “no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission” to a nursing home “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” It even banned nursing homes from testing incoming patients to prevent cases from being detected.
In nursing homes that complied with the order, residents swiftly began dying. By the end of the pandemic, 15% of the state’s nursing home residents were dead.
Over 9,000 infected patients were sent into nursing homes and over 15,000 nursing home residents died. The outcome surprised no one. Christopher Laxton, the head of the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, noted that Cuomo and Zucker, “unaccountably failed to include clinical expertise in operational leadership when these policies were formed and we don’t know why.”
New York’s Health Department not only caused the deaths of thousands of people, it tried to cover it up by listing only those who died inside facilities, not those who died after being taken to a hospital. Zucker was aware of the real numbers, but their release was blocked for months to protect Cuomo. It finally took a lawsuit and a judicial order to release and expose the information.
The true numbers boosted the actual death rate between 40% to 68%.
Cuomo aides rewrote Health Department reports to make their boss look good. A Cuomo aide later admitted that the numbers had been kept hidden over fears of a Justice Department investigation into the state’s nursing home deaths.
Dr. Zucker was New York’s Fauci. He became the public face of Cuomo’s pandemic response and defended his actions and those of his boss. The Department of Health countered the outrage over its policies by releasing a report exonerating itself for the thousands of deaths that was shredded by epidemiologists, statisticians and health care professionals of all kinds.
At a legislative session, Zucker argued that the virus “was inadvertently brought into the nursing homes” and that it happened because “we did not know enough about the science”. The “science” behind respiratory viruses infecting people that they are in close contact with has been known long before Zucker was born.
An audit by the State Comptroller’s office found that the Health Department had interfered with the audit and that top leaders had misled the public.
The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office opened an investigation into the release of false nursing home deaths numbers. FBI agents interviewed top Health Department officials which doubtlessly would have included Dr. Howard Zucker.
During a State Senate hearing, Zucker refused to answer questions by claiming that he could not talk about it because it was the subject of a federal investigation.
29 days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign, his health commissioner followed him out the door.
Attorney General Letita James described it as, “the end of a difficult chapter for our state.”
While Gov. Hochul corruptly praised Zucker, Senator Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat who had fought for accountability over the pandemic deaths, stated that, “his resignation is warranted and another step towards ensuring we hold those who neglected their duties under the Cuomo administration accountable.”
The Empire Center, whose litigation forcing the release of the nursing home death numbers helped lead to the investigation, described Zucker as leaving “marred by scandal over his role in managing the coronavirus pandemic.”
With a record like that, where could Dr. Howard Zucker get a job?
Zucker had been joined at the hip to a disgraced governor ousted over his misconduct. He had been at the epicenter of what elected officials and even the media had called a cover-up and that had resulted in an FBI investigation.
But Zucker did not stay unemployed for long. He was hired on as Chief Medical Officer at Color Health, a company that had specialized in COVID tests, did some teaching at local universities and then became a Deputy Director at the CDC.
Zucker now wields “broad operating authority and responsibility for overall planning, direction, and management of global strategy and programs across CDC”.
The bio reduces Zucker’s role in the pandemic to one word: sandwiched between “many public health crises” including Ebola, Zika, COVID-19, measles, AIDS and “e-cigarette contamination”. There is no mention of nursing home deaths or FBI investigations. COVID-19 now occupies eight characters in Zucker’s extensive bio somewhere between measles and e-cigarettes. Like the thousands of dead nursing home residents, the COVID part of Zucker’s background was buried.
Zucker is not the only former state health director who shoved infected patients into nursing homes to get a second chance from the Biden administration.
Pennsylvania’s Dr. Richard Levine also oversaw an order that forced nursing homes to accept COVID infected patients. Meanwhile, Levine took his own mother out of a nursing home. Over 2,500 nursing home patients died in the state.
Biden made Levine his Assistant Secretary for Health and an admiral. Levine has gotten far more attention for claiming to be a woman named Rachel and lecturing on the importance of transgenderizing children than for the deaths of 2,529 human beings.
Robert Gordon, the head of Michigan’s Department of Health & Human Services, where infected patients were also forced into nursing homes, has become the Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services.
During a hearing, Gordon claimed that putting infected patients into nursing homes actually “reduced deaths”. He argued that the state was unprepared because “the president and the White House concealed information about the level of risk posed by coronavirus.”
Michigan’s Office of the Auditor General conducted an audit that found that there were actually 8,061 COVID nursing home deaths: thousands more than the official numbers that had come out of the state’s health department.
The men who oversaw the policies that infected and killed nursing home patients not only suffered no consequences for their actions, but received promotions that took them from presiding over state health agencies to national ones.
The mini-Faucis of the state have stepped into Fauci’s place.
The Biden administration’s health bureaucracy is overseen by the state health directors who filled cemeteries with dead elders. And even those, like Zucker, who lost their jobs, have found better ones working for Joe Biden. No amount of scandals, shame or outrage has kept them from the pinnacle of the public health bureaucracy where they can do to the country what they did to a few states.
Seems like the Peter Principle on steroids. Instead of the accomplished rising to a level beyond their competence, the incompetent rise because they have already proven their incompetence because of loyalty to incompetents above them. This works like a garbage disposal in reverse. The flow is up the drain.
This isn’t like a cop using approved methods to detain a non-compliant individual, who happened to be OD’ing, like with St. Floyd. This is someone doing sometimg that goes contrary to long established NBC protocol. Cuomo, quite a few other dems, and more than a few Republicans, should be getting the rope. I knew, and did nothing, so I’m guilty too.
There is nothing quite like having the Wolf guard the Sheep is there? Biden is putting out a fire with Gasoline
Failing upwards. A clever scam. If a Democrat follows the party line, and it leads to disaster, and he gets fired, they reward him with an even better job.
Zucker is the same guy who issued a Do Not Resuscitate order for cardiac arrest victims in April of 2020. The New York Post reported on the order on April 21, 2020, and the next day the order was rescinded. The title of the original NY Post article was: “NY issues do-not-resuscitate guideline for cardiac patients amid coronavirus.” I didn’t include the link because I wasn’t sure it was allowed.
Good point, should have been included
Thanks. I appreciate the focus on this outrage. This was nothing less than Nazi eugenics, IMO. believe they were hoping for more spread and more pandemic.
It’s hard to describe what it was like day to day in nursing homes, when these people ( let me rephrase these mothers and fathers and other loved ones) were dying.
Another aspect is who the nursing home staff are. Because that’s where it first spread to outside the nursing home. Maybe It’s delicate to mention, but often staff come from the local minority community. Despite the supposed stance against racism, that was the next group affected and infected by such deliberate policies. I haven’t heard any outrage about this though.
Today, a talking point for some is “there was no pandemic.” Which is just odd and infuriating to hear if you were in NY in 2020&21. So many evil officials have been promoted. So many evil lies.
Thank you. Too many people have forgotten or simply don’t care. There’s been little follow up or action.
The staff certainly played a role. Large nursing home spaces served as incubators as we’ve seen in other countries, e.g. Sweden vs. Norway, but bringing infected patients was a rapid accelerant that very quickly got the dying started.
What? You didn’t think that he would be rewarded for doing their bidding? That is normal. You do a good job and you are rewarded. Are you against meritocracy?
So refreshing that youre using dick levine’s real name. If one compromises on truth, one has already lost. Youre essay laureate of US , mr g
If you don’t speak the truth about basic things like this, why even bother, is my take.
Zucker and the others listed in the column belong in jail, not the CDC and other responsible positions. They’re being rewarded for their loyalty to The Party rather than being punished for their depravity.
Well…at least we know Zucker can’t really do anything to harm our trust in or the reputation of the CDC!
CDC is an evil institution that needs to be shut down and every single employee should be incarcerated for genocide.
I think you have something here. Wasn’t the film “Vaxxed” based on data leaked by a CDC whistle blower?
The GODLESS LEFT always fails UP- the more they destroy and kill the more they enhance their resumes
THE GODLESS LEFT ALWAYS FAILS UP- the more they kill and destroy- the better their resume
Covid has a complete override any enquiry or debate and that’s been clear from day one. As Trump said, this is a new war with all the fog that implies.
Even though seniors are on the front line it’s really not about them at all and if they were wise they would know that.
“Zucker was aware of the real numbers, but their release was blocked for months…” So, Zucker essentially obstructed justice by hiding facts, yet Rudy Giuliani was disbarred without an evidentiary hearing for “lying about election fraud”, something still being argued about. Do I detect a pattern here?
Isn’t it interesting that on every critical issue if we want to actually get the bottom of things we have Trump’s patriotic rear end blocking us? It’s almost like an obnoxious Bush was nominated.
In principle you can be consistent with the Trump line and save the seniors but in practice you can’t even save the juniors.
So anyway Daniel Horrowitz of the, at least we’ll get one thing out of the debt ceiling debacle like the abolition of Green agenda items. Ha Ha.
Anyway Daniel is going on much about how we don’t even need the courage of the greatest generation.
I’d just like to bring up one thing which is what Shelby Foote said about Picket’s charge. “Nobody’s got that kind of courage.”
How is what those callous lowlifes did anything less than murder? The only government jobs these sociopaths should be doing is cleaning prison laboratories while they serve put their life sentences!
Very good article. It also points out another way that the WEF and the elites want to reduce the population and get rid of our senior citizens to reduce government cost. These people will never be charged with a crime.
How uncanny – others might say, “Shocking! Simply Shocking!” – that the global pandemic brought out the immoral worst in people.
But whether or not you believe that the pandemic was planned and engineered by a group of evil people with the power to toy with the world, the pandemic can still be seen as a divine test for goodness against evil.
And in this light, these evil desanctifiers of life have failed the test. They may evade the court of human justice for now, but not the Court of Absolute Justice.
Thanks to Mr. Greenfield’s articles, we know who these people are and what they’ve done. We know that they are specifically sought out, appointed and elevated precisely because they are the scum and not the cream.
We certainly await a better world that passes the test and is filled with good, speedily in our days.
The only way to ensure justice for the murdered elderly and their families is a death sentence for every last one of these corrupt, lying scumbags, and that also includes fauxci.
To The LibTurds”FAILURE”is REWARDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was a job for a job well done or a Book Deal…. that’s the communist way of payback.. oh yes a spot on CNN or other unwatchable visual talking head spot.
Not a surprise that these murderous criminals are being promoted, when you consider that their bosses – all the way up to the commander in chief – are hell-bent on destroying America and Western civilization- also known as the Obama Doctrine.