Cuomo Defends His Disastrous Covid Nursing Home Policy: ‘It Became a Political Football’

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CUOMO: "First of all, New Yorkers — New Yorkers are going to criticize whatever you do. On nursing homes, it became a political football four years ago. We now have had a number of reports that have gone all through it and it has been proven to have been politicized. The Department of Justice inspector general said they played politics with the issue. And then, when you look at it at the end of the day, and they have all the final numbers, New York is number 38 in what's called the rate of death for every 1,000 people in the nursing home. New York is number 38 out of 50 states, which means only 12 states had a lower rate of death, which is really incredible when you think about it. We had it first, we had it worst, we didn’t know what it was. And it’s a tribute to the women and men who worked in our health care system and kept it down that low, that only 12 states had a lower rate of death and they had more time to get ready. We were hit by surprise. No, they did an extraordinary job.”