Critics say the troubled New York government’s Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous failure over the state’s growing old age home scandal is a permanent stain on a legacy tainted with fraud, chaos and thousands of deaths, critics say – and he can take down his younger brother with him.
Cuomo’s nursing home controversy came to the fore again last week when his top assistant admitted that his government had withheld the true number of COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes to avoid federal investigation, as the New York Post first reported. has.
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The state was forced to acknowledge a death toll among residents of nursing homes that reached nearly 15,000 after initially reporting 8,500 – a figure that excluded residents who died in a hospital.
Cuomo’s mandate for nursing homes to accept patients who have had or are suspected of having COVID-19 has since been considered ‘one of the biggest scandals of the pandemic’. The decision sparked an onslaught of COVID-19 cases that infected a large portion of the state’s elderly patients and resulted in thousands of deaths among the most vulnerable population.
But as New Yorkers began raising questions about the rising death toll in aged care settings, the governor’s younger brother and ardent protector, Chris Cuomo, offered him a platform in his CNN show, ‘Cuomo Prime Time’, to appeal to to do the viewers. by having playful conversations on the air, and largely avoiding the nursing home scandal.
“This is not just a government scandal. This is a media scandal,” New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz wrote in a recent column. “While the government condemned Cuomo’s seniors to death, the media was fainting over Cuomo in a series of softball interviews, many of which were conducted by his own brother.”
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While grieving New Yorkers had angry answers, the Cuomo brothers joked about trivial matters and wondered aloud which of the two would be considered their favorite child as their mother, and they even used physical comedy when the CNN anchor presented a cartoon-like, large cotton pipe to his brother. to use for a coronavirus test.
Days after Elder Cuomo turned the course around and signed an executive order on May 11 to stop hospitals from sending infected patients back to nursing homes and set up staff testing, he appeared in his brother’s show for ‘ a sitting of 25 minutes that makes no mention of the death toll from the nursing home.
The CNN anchor finally mentioned the controversy to his brother after ignoring it on the air during at least ten interviews, but the governor quickly pointed out how there were deaths in the nursing home ‘across the country’ and said ‘we should find out how to do it better next time “before the next virus wave occurs.
In another interview, the younger brother praised the ‘Love Gov’ as the leader of New York and even admitted to his viewers: ‘Of course I’m not objective’ while expressing his love for his brother.
“He’s my big brother. I love him. Of course I’m not objective, but let’s call it straight. Look at the state, look at the numbers … Yes, he is my brother,” the younger said. Cuomo said time. “There is no doubt. I can cry about it in a second, but the results are there for all to see. Was it perfect? No, tell me what it is, but look at the state in which our country is. And if you do not ‘think it’s going to be reflected in what happens in November, then you did not pay attention.’
Along the way, Cuomo’s government emerged as a darling of the liberal media and wrote a book about his leadership throughout the pandemic. Months of glowing coverage of his brother’s network even earned him an Emmy Award for his coronavirus briefings.
An explosion in the scandal that plagued both brothers came to light last week when the secretary of state, Melissa DeRosa, said in a video conference call to the leading Empire State Democrats that the government had the actual number of deaths to DOJ investigators misrepresented for fear the data could be ‘used against us’.
Since the outbreak of the scandal, Chris Cuomo has not mentioned it in his program, nor has he tweeted about it – and rather devoted tweets and airtime to the accusation hearing of former president Donald Trump.
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Republicans accusing the administration of a deliberate ‘cover-up’ are now calling for an investigation into and the resignation of both the Cuomo and DeRosa governments. An increasing number of Democrats are joining calls to revoke government doctrine Cuomo’s executive powers and destroy the government’s defense of his secret as his brother remains silent.
The Cuomo government defended itself in the wake of the nursing home report, saying, “Everyone did the best they could.”
At a press conference Friday, he said the state is following federal leadership. “If you think there was a mistake, talk to the federal government,” he said. “It’s not about pointing the finger or blaming, it’s become a political football.”