A tweet from last year in July, written by CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who beat Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, reappeared Thursday when his brother’s nursing home scandal in New York continued to develop.
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have both published bomb reports claiming that the Cuomo government is changing the data that obscures the true number of deaths in the nursing home in the Empire State.
Sources told WSJ that a report in July “focused only on residents who died inside long-term care facilities, and those who died in hospitals after becoming ill in nursing homes were excluded.”
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According to WSJ, the data change, which was done by state health officials led by New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top advisers, led to 6,432 deaths in the nursing home, which was a ‘significant countdown’.
The Times reports that the conflict over the report in July was also linked to the governor’s quest to write a book on his ‘leadership’, suggesting his response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Beth Garvey, Cuomo’s special adviser and senior adviser, claimed that ‘data outside the facility’, which means deaths in hospitals, was omitted in the July report after the state Department of Health ‘could not confirm that it was adequately verified. is not. . “
“It did not change the conclusion of the report, which was and is that the order as of March 25 ‘was not a driver of infections or deaths in nursing homes’.”
She added: ‘COVID task force officials did not request that the report concluding the March 25 order play no role; the members of the task force were in fact very careful to make the statistical analysis that was in the General DOH and the COVID Task Force the ultimate goal to ensure the public’s confidence in the conclusion to issue the report. ‘
The anchor “Cuomo Prime Time” went to Twitter in July last year to cast doubt on the data coming from Florida, which at the time had a decline in COVID cases.
“Can we trust the Florida governor’s data?” Cuomo asked.
Cuomo’s tweet is just one example of the many attacks DeSantis has encountered from the mainstream media over his response to the coronavirus outbreak, while virtually all outlets have ignored the burgeoning New York nursing home scandal that plagued the leading Democratic governor.
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“Remember, this CNN host promoted an unsubstantiated conspiracy over Florida’s data to explain the results he did not understand while his brother in NY was actively manipulating data to mislead the public,” Conservative writer AG Hamilton responded to Cuomo’s tweet.
“How embarrassing, but quite typical of a media narrative that was completely detached from reality and was blatantly so beautiful from the start,” Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, once said.
CNN says it banned Chris Cuomo from treating his family member after admitting that they lifted the ‘rule’ in the early months of the pandemic for the host to conduct the fickle interviews.
The host of ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ briefly acknowledged the controversy surrounding his brother in an awkward speech to the viewers and said that he was’ aware of what’s going on with my brother, and of course I can not cover it, because he is my brother. “
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“Now, of course, CNN has to cover it,” Cuomo said. “They have dealt with it in detail, and they will continue to do so. I have always cared very deeply about these issues, and it is deep. I just wanted to tell you.”