By MARINA VILLENEUVE and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy, state officials said Monday, but they argued it was not to blame for one of the nations highest nursing home death tolls. Gov. Andrew Cuomos administration, which has taken intense criticism over the policy, instead contended the virus rampant spread through the states nursing homes was propelled by more than 20,000 infected home staffers, many of whom kept going to work unaware they had []
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