If you take just the top 8 New York county's admitted nursing home death toll from Covid 19 through June 22, a very conservative figure of 2,208 is given.

https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf

Some of the medicaid reimbursements are quite high, up to $1,850/day in some cases. Given the skewed numbers of admitted deaths, I took the highest reimbursement rate for those 8 counties and came up with $11,347,000/day saving due to those deaths.

https://www.health.ny.gov/facilities/long_term_care/reimbursement/nhr/2019/nursing_home_rates_july_2019.htm

Those tragic and avoidable deaths, had the victims lived just one more year, have saved the state $11,347,000,000/Year.

ELEVEN BILLION, THREE HUNDRED FORTY SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR!

Means, motive, opportunity.