New York House Republicans are urging President Trump’s top health officials, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, to determine whether ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo violated federal safety guidance by sending COVID-infected elderly patients released from hospitals into nursing homes during the worst of the pandemic.

The appeal centers on the then-Cuomo administration’s controversial March 25, 2020 directive prodding nursing homes to accept treated COVID patients discharged from hospitals.

“More than 15,000 New York nursing home residents died of COVID during the early part of the pandemic. We just passed the grim five-year anniversary of New York’s infamous March 25, 2020, directive, which forced ill-prepared nursing homes to accept 9,056 COVID-19 patients over a six-week period,” said the

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