“Does the #DemConvention know @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?”
What PolitiFact found
The policy likely had an effect, but epidemiologists identified additional contributing factors. Also, the policy did not "force" nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients. Nursing homes interpreted it that way.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Michael Caputo (assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services) made this claim around 17 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 August 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Where the claim appeared
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