Gov. Cuomo: ‘Cruel,’ ‘Reprehensible’ How Trump Blamed Me for Nursing Home Deaths

‘We should have been testing staff before they walked into a nursing home’

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CUOMO: “One of the things I find reprehensible about it, Willie, is they -- the president did create that imp impression. Which is cruel. It’s cruel. It's cruel to say to the families who lost people in nursing homes, well this could have been prevented by a different government policy. It makes their pain worse. It is not true. If you want to rewind all the tape, we should have been testing staff before they walked into a nursing home. That is true. And that’s back in March when we didn’t have any tests. We were told asymptomatic spread was impossible, that you had to have a symptom. So the nursing home workers without symptoms were allowed in. That was bad information that we received. That’s how you would have really prevented it. But, for the president to create a narrative which is factually untrue, which causes pain, I understand his political reason, I mean, he needs some counterattack on COVID. But it’s just — it’s untrue and it’s mean.”

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