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| DATE | 2020-10-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] King Cuomo
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townhall.com
Cuomo Finally Admits He Wouldn't Have Signed Nursing Home Order...But
for a Terrible Reason.
Cortney O'Brien
3-4 minutes
He's at it again. Gov. Andrew Cuomo refuses to acknowledge that his
March 25 mandate that demanded nursing home facilities accept recovering
COVID patients had anything to do with the thousands of fatalities that
have since been tallied in New York nursing homes.
"Yes, people in nursing homes died," Cuomo said in his interview with
NBC's Willie Geist on Wednesday. "And they attacked me and all the
Democratic governors with that."
Who they should have been attacking, apparently, are the nursing home
staffers who showed up to work every day to care for ailing residents.
"We’ve done a full study of it, the virus came into nursing homes from
the staff," the governor said.
Cuomo also argued that, by percentage, New York's loss was "much, much
less" than other states.
The problem is, it's highly likely that we don't have the right numbers.
As has been reported, New York is the only state in the country that
doesn't take into account nursing home residents who died from COVID
after being transferred to the hospital. If they didn't die on nursing
home property, they weren't counted.
.-at-NYGovCuomo blames nursing home staff for “bringing” Covid into
their facilities.
"We’ve done a full study of it, the virus came into nursing homes
from the staff." pic.twitter.com/8sw4ALIqBr
— Tom Elliott (-at-tomselliott) October 14, 2020
Cuomo claims that he didn't force these facilities to accept COVID
patients.
"There was never a directive that said: 'We will send COVID positive
people back to nursing homes.'"
The directive, which you can read here, Cuomo insisted, only said that
facilities should accept the patients if they had the capacity to care
for them. But as many witnesses have attested, the pressure from the
Cuomo administration made these facilities feel as though they had no
choice.
But hey, at least Gov. Cuomo has now finally admitted that in
retrospect, he would not have signed that March directive. Not because
of the lost lives, but because of the "political issue" it created.
"Would my Health Department have followed the federal guidance?
Obviously not, knowing the political issue it was going to create," he
said. "But there was no issue in reality...because we never did have a
scarcity of beds."
Cuomo has argued that his administration was simply following guidance
from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when he signed
the mandate. PolitiFact rated that assertion "mostly false."
Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean thanked Geist for being one of
few reporters who are at least trying to get answers out of Cuomo.
God bless -at-WillieGeist who is one of the only journalists that
presses -at-NYGovCuomo about the nursing home tragedy. Everyone else lets
him get away with it.
— Janice Dean (-at-JaniceDean) October 14, 2020
Dean has also been keeping track of all of the people and things that
the governor has blamed for the nursing home tragedy. You'll notice that
the one obvious culprit is not on the list.
Recap: -at-NYGovCuomo has blamed God, Mother Nature, -at-mgoodwin_nypost
-at-nypost, -at-NewYorkGOP, -at-CDCgov, POTUS, -at-FoxNews, nursing home workers,
visitors and the residents themselves for his deadly nursing home
executive order that’s been scrubbed from his health dept website.
— Janice Dean (-at-JaniceDean) October 14, 2020
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