New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a press conference on July 1, 2020 in New York City.
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President Donald Trump is exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic in the United States by minimizing the problem and telling Americans they don’t have to wear a mask, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
Trump “says a lot of things, right? They are not necessarily facts, they are not necessarily true,” Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany.
“He wants to deny the Covid virus. He has done it from day one. ‘Well, it’s like the flu. Well, it’s going to go away at Easter. It will heat up and disappear like a miracle.” He has said all things, and none of them were true, “Cuomo said.
He said Trump could help curb the outbreak in the United States, the worst in the world, simply by acknowledging the problem and wearing a mask in public. If you don’t, “you are facilitating the virus. You are enabling the virus,” he said.
“He will not wear a mask. Vice President Pence says to wear a mask. All health officials say to wear the mask. He will not wear a mask because he does not want to admit there is a Covid virus. Why? I have no idea,” he said. Cuomo.
The Empire State Governor pointed to his own work in New York as an example for other states to contain the virus. He said there were 817 people hospitalized with the coronavirus in New York, which was the lowest level of Covid-19 hospitalizations since the start of the outbreak.
“We know there is a model that says you can contain the virus. We did it,” Cuomo said. “And by the way, we did it in the worst case. That’s what’s really impressive here. We didn’t have seven cases, we had the highest infection rate in the country.”
Meanwhile, some states like Texas report record-level hospitalization levels as outbreaks continue to rise. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on CBS “Face The Nation” Sunday that the city’s hospitals are only weeks away from being overwhelmed.
Texas and Florida reported record surge in coronavirus cases over the weekend of July 4 as state and local governments try to contain growing outbreaks.
This is a developing story. Please come back later for updates.
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