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Smith & Wesson also manufactured the weapon used by the alleged gunman in a Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Ill., that killed seven and wounded dozens. The ban passed the House on a near party-line vote last week, but the bill has little chance of passing the Senate. Lawmakers passed a bipartisan gun safety package in June in response to the shootings, and many Democrats have pushed to reimplement an assault weapons ban. The committee’s scrutiny of the firearm industry was reignited by a string of recent high-profile mass shootings, namely the massacres at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y.
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Kim’s uncle died in a New York nursing home from a suspected COVID-19 infection.“This subpoena was necessitated by your unwillingness to voluntarily comply with the committee’s investigation, including your refusal to testify about your company’s troubling business practices at the committee’s Jhearing, and your refusal to voluntarily produce key information about your company’s sale of assault weapons to civilians,” Maloney wrote. What “was the intent behind hiding the accurate death toll numbers, which precluded the legislators from intervening sooner on behalf of their panicked constituents?” Kim said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. New York State Assemblymember Ron Kim, a Democrat, has blamed Hochul for waiting too long to begin an investigation to scrutinize the Cuomo administration’s efforts to allegedly falsify the COVID-19 death toll. An initial report on the findings is expected by May 2023. Meanwhile, the state administration is reportedly planning to hire a third-party auditor who will be given until late 2023 to deliver a final report on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In March this year, New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a report ( pdf) stating that during the 10-month period between April 2020 and February 2021, the New York Health Department had failed to account for about 4,100 lives lost in nursing homes due to COVID-19. In January 2021, New York Attorney General Letitia James published a report stating that the state’s health department underreported COVID-19-related nursing home deaths by up to 50 percent. She also said that readmitting potentially positive COVID-19 residents back into nursing homes had negative consequences. Deborah Birx admitted that Cuomo’s March 25, 2020, guidance had violated CMS guidance. In an interview last year, former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr.
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9, including, in part, the total number of COVID-19-related nursing home deaths, and all state-issued guidance, executive orders, and directives regarding hospital discharges to nursing homes. The letter asks Hochul to produce critical material regarding the issue no later than Aug. “This investigation is even more important considering troubling reports from the New York Assembly Minority Leader that you are in ‘no rush’ to provide answers to the families that lost loved ones in New York nursing homes,” the letter reads. The letter reminds Hochul that her administration had promised to be “fully transparent” with regard to the data related to nursing home readmissions and COVID-19 deaths. This order contradicted guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and “likely” led to the “unnecessary deaths” of thousands, the July 26 letter says. Andrew Cuomo on March 25, 2020, which stated that “no resident shall be denied readmission or admission to the solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19,” and that “ are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident … be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or re-admission.” Kathy Hochul ( pdf), the ranking members from the two committees point to guidance issued by then-Gov. Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform have opened an inquiry into thousands of deaths at New York nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.