Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has continued to bias his administration's controversial order to send infected Covid-19 patients to nursing homes during the worst period of the killer pandemic.
In an interview with Fox 5 NY, Cuomo, who recently participated in the Big Apple mayoral race, failed to take responsibility for the March 2020 decision to close sick patients to senior care facilities statewide, providing a half-burned apology to repeated questions about the pandemic.
After many scandals, the dishonest Pol, who resigned from the governor's office in 2021, took instead to the healthcare professional who said “we didn't know how many people were going to die.”
“Covid has been a scary, once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Cuomo, 67, told reporter Rosanna Scott at the Rainboston Road Senior Center in the Bronx on Friday.
“Two million Americans died during Covid. Each of them was a tragedy. People died in a nursing home in New York under the worst possible circumstances I could imagine.”
When asked if the family owed to the New Yorker who apologized to the New Yorker inside the nursing home, Cuomo replied, “I'm sorry they had to go through.”
“It was horrifying,” he continued, adding that he followed regulations advised by health experts.
“I understood why the Health Department wanted these restrictions, but it was awful, terrible situation.”
Cuomo then questioned why it took the federal government to create proper testing and vaccines to fight the virus, claiming that the federal government knew Covid a few months before it led to a nationwide shutdown.
He also promoted New York's low mortality rate at that time, rebutting accusations that misunderstood the public about the number of deaths in nursing homes, saying the topic is “very political and highly weaponized.”
The former governor, who repeatedly avoided questions about handling the health crisis, saw thousands of recovering COVID patients admitted to state nursing homes after receiving a devastating “must admit” order on March 25, 2020.
Critics have condemned the deaths of as many as 15,000 nursing homes. Cuomo was also accused of lowering the nursing home's death toll by 50%.
The mayor's hopeful representative doubled his decision to follow federal government policies and guidance during the early months of the pandemic.
“The facts are clear five years from now. According to the New York Attorney General and the U.S. DOJ IG of the Hochul administration, New York's nursing home enrollment policy followed federal guidance, with 12 other blue and red states as well.
“Although all covid deaths were tragic, as reported by DOJ IG, it is being condemned that people's pain has been weaponized for political purposes.”
