Gov. Cuomo Blames Term ‘China Virus’ for Restrictions He Imposed Hurting State’s Economy

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CUOMO: “Remember what happened here. New York had many more cases. New York was the hardest hit because the fundamental, the first government error was we had a White House saying China virus, China virus, China virus. It wasn’t the China virus. It was the European virus. The virus didn’t come to the United States from China. It came from Europe. It migrated from China to Europe, Italy, France, Spain, and it came here from Europe. The president did the China travel ban he often talked about January 29th. The virus was gone from China. It was in Europe, and they didn’t do a European ban until March 16th. That means the virus was coming here on planes from Europe for three months. Most of those flights were landing on the East Coast. Many of them in New York City. That’s why New York was ambushed by that Coronavirus. And that’s why we had to shut down the way we did. And that’s why you see the economic numbers down for New York because we shut down. But you now are reporting on states in the west that didn’t shut down and didn’t take COVID seriously. And now you are seeing their cases go up, right? So it -- it makes the point. Yes, we shut down because we were ambushed, but we got the virus out of control. Those other states that were in denial, that’s where you’re seeing the increase now. There’s no second wave, Stephanie. This is the first wave that they never came to terms with because they denied it and now you are seeing the numbers go up.”