Cuomo Defends Pandemic Response, Says Pausing Nursing Home Death Numbers Was a Mistake
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Cuomo defends administration after scrutiny over nursing home deathsNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday defended his administration’s pandemic response, while accepting some fault himself, as scrutiny mounts over how the state handled COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
The New York governor confirmed in a press conference that the state Department of Health “paused” state lawmakers’ inquiry into nursing home death data to prioritize dealing with the general pandemic and the Department of Justice’s request for similar information in August.
Cuomo noted that both chambers of the state legislature were informed of the department’s decision at...
From the Right
Adoring media served as protective cloak for Cuomo’s COVID liesNews that Gov. Cuomo’s office had radically understated the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes last year deflated his media image as a straight-talking teller of home truths. Now The Post has reported that the governor covered up the extent of the problem specifically because his office didn’t want President Trump to “turn this into a giant political football” by instructing the Department of Justice to investigate Cuomo’s handling of the situation.
In other words, Cuomo buried evidence and impeded a federal investigation, hoping a new...
From the Left
Cuomo Accepts Some Blame in Nursing Home Scandal but Denies Cover-UpAdmitting a degree of fault for the first time, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Monday that his administration’s lack of transparency about the scope of coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes in New York was a mistake.
By failing to answer questions from state lawmakers, the public and the news media, Mr. Cuomo acknowledged, the state created a void that was “filled with skepticism, and cynicism, and conspiracy theories which furthered the confusion.”
But he stopped short of a full apology for his handling of information about the death toll...
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