Posted on 02/16/2021 2:24:56 AM PST by Libloather
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended himself Monday against accusations that his administration covered up the actual COVID-19 death toll among the state’s nursing home residents, blaming politics and miscommunication for the controversy.
The third-term Democratic governor acknowledged at a press conference that his administration’s opacity regarding the scope of coronavirus deaths among residents of long-term care facilities was a mistake.
Cuomo suggested that the state’s delay in answering questions about the data from lawmakers and the press had led to “a void” that was “filled with skepticism, cynicism and conspiracy theories, which furthered confusion.”
“In retrospect, should we have given more priority to fulfilling information requests? In my opinion, yes, and I think that’s what created the void,” said the governor, who wrote a book last year about managing the COVID-19 pandemic. “But do I understand the pressure everyone was under? Yes.”
**SNIP**
Cuomo’s administration dramatically underreported the number of COVID-19 deaths among residents of New York’s long-term care facilities. A recent court order and a report from the state’s attorney general forced the administration to admit that the death toll was nearly 15,000, up from the previously disclosed 8,500 - the lower number excluded residents who had died after being taken to hospitals. The new toll amounts to about one-seventh of New York’s 2019 nursing home population.
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Huffington Post....nuff said
Interesting. The Dems don’t want any chance that Cuomo runs for President.
“I did it. Nothing you can do about it. Therefore nothing to investigate. To quote my good friend Hillary “At this point what difference does it make”?”.
Sounds like a confession. Lock him up.
Oh. OK. Nevermind.
I wonder if Cuomo already has his pets vaccinated ahead of the . . . common people.
Cuomo knows the media will protect him.
Only if Deep State tells them to continue to protect him.
Deep State seems to have it in for Fredo’s bro.
I wonder why...
I wonder if this has to do with bailout money and Fredo’s bro is caught between interests who want more and Deep State who won’t give it.
Not necessarily. Prince Andrew has made so many enemies that I am positive there are a legion of Presstitutes out there who want to see him hang like a majority of New Yorkers do...
What I want to know: Every pol in the state, from local to federal, knew that Medicare and Medicaid had relaxed their regs in mid-March, two weeks before Cuomi’s order sending them back.
Our pols knew this.
And DID NOTHING.
For MONTHS.
They can all go to Hell right along with Cuomo for this.
They enabled him. Every damn one of them.
If, by some miracle, there really is someone who wants to get to the bottom of this, here’s a hint.
Start Upstate, in Steuben County.
Just a thought.
I had a vision of an entire room of media people, hearing him say this, simply close up their little notebooks, with hardly a murmur in the crowd except for “Yeah. That is how I saw it all along, he just validated the truth. What is for lunch?”
Cuomo is trying to obfuscate the issue. It isn’t JUST that he covered up deaths, but that HE CAUSED them in the first place, by forcing nursing homes to take back those infected but recovered in the first place, which led to others getting infected in turn. Cuomo, Wolf, Whitmer, Murphy and Newsome all need to be charged with manslaughter.
Half the population is dumber than average.
A good portion of the other half, doesn’t care.
Oh, OK. Let’s move on then.
Cuz that's what my gut tells me.
Looking at the timing, Fauci said he was talking to Chris every day while he was sick....because "I cared". Chris was the back door. Wonder how many documents got shredded and re-written.
Fauci will protect him.
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