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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on May 10, 2020 touting New York's ranking in nursing home deaths                                                                              A year ago, when New York was reporting the most coronavirus nursing home deaths in the nation and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was under fire for ordering Covid 19 patients into nursing homes, Cuomo insisted New York was doing better than most states. Those were the "facts," he said, presenting charts to prove his point. New York, he said, in a May 10, 2020 briefing, ranked 34th of 50 states in terms of nursing home deaths as a percent of total state coronavirus deaths.  Only 12 percent of New York's total deaths occurred at nursing homes compared to a whopping 81 percent of West Virgina's coronavirus deaths, he said. (See above chart) In months to come, Cuomo bragged that New York was doing even better, ranking 46th out of 50 in terms of  nursing homes deaths compared to other states. He touted that number eve