Cuomo Says Blaming His Office For Nursing Home Corona Deaths A ‘Political Charade,’ He Blames Feds

 Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else, because we had more people die, because the federal government missed the boat and never told us this virus was coming from Europe and not from China,” Cuomo said. “And January, February, March, before they did the European travel ban, 3 million people came from Europe and brought the virus to New York and the federal government didn’t know and the federal government and the CDC and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation.”

“So, New York had more cases, more deaths, and more deaths in nursing home because that’s who the virus affects. It affects senior citizens, we know that. You look at any state and they had a tremendous number of deaths in nursing homes,” he added. “It’s all a political charade, and it’s an ugly one frankly, to talk about a number of deaths and suggest there was politics added.”

The statement above is just false. But remember the Governor and his brother Chris Cuomo of CNN share the same brain. Perhaps on Monday, when he made the statement to MSNBC, it was Chris’s day to use their shared brain.

On March 25, 2020, Gov. Cuomo issued an order directing nursing homes to take in patients that already had the highly contagious coronavirus. “No resident shall be ­denied readmission or admission to NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19,” then failed to reverse the directive for six weeks as deaths mounted.