All it takes is a bit of common sense to understand that sending coronavirus patients into nursing homes is a bad idea. Unfortunately, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo realized this only after the rest of the country criticized his policy that forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients from nearby hospitals. Cuomo reversed the policy last week, but the damage had already been done.

The problem is that we can’t know for sure just how many nursing home residents died as a result of Cuomo’s policy because the New York government has been quietly omitting deaths from its recent reports on nursing homes and long-term care facilities, as the Daily Caller reported today.