New York’s Andrew Cuomo slammed President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic during his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, accusing the White House of ‘negligence’, even when his own administration blamed it. thousands killed in New York City nursing homes.
“Our collective power is exercised through government. It is in fact our immune system. And our current federal government is dysfunctional and incompetent. It could not fight the virus. In fact, it did not even see it coming. The European virus infects the Northeast, while the White House was still firmly about China, “Cuomo said during his speech, an apparent counterpoint to Trump’s labeling of COVID-19 as the” China virus. “
He added: “The virus had been attacking us for months before they even knew it was here. We saw the failure of a government that tried to reject the virus, then tried to ignore it and then tried to politicize it. The failed “The federal government that looked at New York was bothered by its negligence, and then saw New York suffer, but through it all he learned nothing.”
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During his speech, Cuomo struggled to paint COVID-19 as a metaphor for deeper political deficits in the country, saying “COVID is the symptom, not the disease.”
“Our nation is in crisis, and in many ways, COVID is just a metaphor,” he said. “A virus strikes when the body is weak and when it cannot defend itself. In recent years, America’s body policy has become weak.”
But Cuomo, a third-term governor who became one of the most prominent Democrats during the pandemic, has been criticized for his response to the crisis, which hit New York early, killing more than 32,000 people. killed – the highest death toll in the country.
To top it off, Cuomo’s edo in late March that essentially ordered nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals, designed a measure to free up hospital beds. For the assembly of pressure in May, Cuomo returned the order.
The state has officially reported a toll house of nursing homes of more than 6,600; however, unlike any other state with major outbreaks, New York only counts residents who died on nursing home property – not individuals who were transported to hospitals and died there, according to the Associated Press. The deviation could add thousands of individuals to the death toll from the state nursing home.
The Cuomo administration has refused to release the number, leading some to speculate about the state deliberately manipulating the figures.
Republicans shot back hard. Michael Caputo, assistant secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration, tweeted after Cuomo’s speech that the governor is responsible for “planting the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandparents.”
“Do the #DemConvention @NYGovCuomo still know how to stop nursing home deaths by counting only those who died in the home – not the thousands who died in hospitals?” Caputo wrote.
But Cuomo blamed the dual health and economic crisis on the White House, saying the US – six months after the pandemic began – was not yet ready to fight the virus, which he said was “ricocheting across the country”. . “
The U.S. has close to 5.5 million COVID-19 cases, the most in the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 170,000 people have died as a result of the virus – and cases are still rising in large parts of the country.
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“We need a leader as good as our people. A leader who appeals to the best in us, not the worst. A leader who can unite, not divide,” Cuomo said. “A leader who can bring us up, not destroy us. I know that man, I’ve worked with that man … I’ve seen his pain and I’ve seen his heart. That man is Joe Biden.”
