New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to be treated as a “conquering hero” despite scrapping any responsibility for nursing home deaths by coronavirus, even after a new report details how the official totals are “completely wrong,” according to New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz.
Markowicz wrote for The Spectator US, noting that the Associated Press reported this week that “New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.”
The report was covered with the headline “The actual death of nursing home tolls in New York in secret” and estimates that thousands more nursing home residents died in the pandemic than the official number of just over 6,600.
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“Why does it matter if the death of the nursing home is counted correctly?” Frege Markowicz. “For one thing, if we do not do that, Cuomo could shrug his shoulders and remove the guilt.” In the past, she noted, Cuomo had been “challenging about his mandate” that nursing homes accept patients with coronavirus, and shift the blame for the deaths to “Mother Nature” and “God.”
“New York was hit first, and hard, and Cuomo pretends all his actions were the right ones,” Markowicz wrote. “But the directive proves otherwise: it is evidence of a gigantic mistake, one that Cuomo would rather not address.”
“Any fudging of numbers is an attempt by Gov. Cuomo, and his administration, to deflect responsibility over this directive,” she added. “It also allows Cuomo to continue to indulge in undeserved adulation. New York has suffered from the deaths of coronavirus, many of them unnecessary, yet the governor is treated as a kind of conquering hero.”
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Markowicz lamented that the AP report was no longer influential, saying “the left” ignores Cuomo’s shortcomings in hopes of pinning the coronavirus pandemic on President Trump.
“Sooner or later, Cuomo will have to answer for what he did,” Markowicz wrote. “And he will not be able to blame ‘Mother Nature’ or ‘God’.”
