New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his office is not to blame for the more than 6,000 nursing home residents who died during the coronavirus pandemic under his watch.
During a Monday appearance on MSNBC, Cuomo told Stephanie Ruhle that Republicans, who are investigating a March 25 order he signed directing nursing homes to take in infected coronavirus patients, are “playing politics.”
Cuomo then said the federal government and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are to blame for the number of people in nursing homes who have died from the virus.
“Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else, because we had more people die, because the federal government missed the boat and never told us this virus was coming from Europe and not from China,” Cuomo said. “And January, February, March, before they did the European travel ban, 3 million people came from Europe and brought the virus to New York and the federal government didn't know and the federal government and the CDC and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation.”
He said anyone faulting his office for the nursing home deaths is engaging in a “political charade.”
“So, New York had more cases, more deaths, and more deaths in nursing home because that's who the virus affects. It affects senior citizens, we know that. You look at any state and they had a tremendous number of deaths in nursing homes,” he said. “It's all a political charade, and it's an ugly one frankly, to talk about a number of deaths and suggest there was politics added.”
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