New York Prime Minister Andrew Cuomo said on Monday “you should be blind” to thinking of talks to investigate further talks about the death of coronavirus linked to state nursing homes amid the pandemic are “not political.”
Cuomo told a news conference Monday that he “would not investigate” the deaths of the nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic in New York State.
“I would not investigate whether it is political or not, anyone can make that decision for themselves,” Cuomo said. “I think you have to be blind to realize that it’s not political.”
He went on to say, “Just look at where it comes from and look at the sources and look at their political relations and look at who wrote the letter in Congress and look at what publications it raises and what media networks look to. bring out. “
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He added: “It’s kind of unbelievable.”
Cuomo. (Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
Cuomo has claimed that the thousands of nursing home deaths had nothing to do with his March 25 order requiring nursing homes to accept patients with coronavirus who were medically stable without testing them, claiming the deaths were caused by infected staff members. who spread the virus.
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A report released last month makes a splash of his submissions, but experts have questioned the report’s methods.
The report, released by New York State, said that 80 percent of the 310 nursing homes in the state that took coronavirus patients already had cases before Cuomo issued his order.
Cuomo has accused the “dirty politician” of the allegations he made about his order, which he finally dismissed on May 10. He said it was a “political conspiracy to prevent deaths in nursing homes.”
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., Who is chairing a House subcommittee on the COVID crisis, said in a letter to Cuomo last month that “[b]lame shifts, name calling and half-baked data manipulations will not make the facts if the questions they raise disappear. ”
Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi responded, saying: “We are accustomed to Republicans rejecting science, but now they are writing about time, space and dates on a calendar to distract from the many, many, embarrassing failures. “Nobody buys it.”
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Meanwhile, Cuomo on Monday urged the public to “look at the basic facts about where New York is compared to other states.”
“You look at where New York is as a percentage of nursing home deaths,” he said. “It’s at the very bottom of the list of states.”
“That I do not think anyone knows what is political, what is not political,” he continued. “Everyone can make their own decisions.”
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Cuomo went on to say that experts could “sensibly” investigate coronavirus deaths in nursing homes in the state, saying that “there would be no politics” at all, and would be “trusted” by Democrats, Republicans and independents.
