The Drudge report called on the New York government, Andrew Cuomo, on Saturday over the government’s alleged cover-up in state nursing homes due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday, the most conservative merging website shared links to coverage from The Daily Mail and The Associated Press over the controversy over the nursing home.
MANAGEMENT: January 23, 2021 file photo, Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters during a news conference at a COVID-19 vaccination site in the William Reid apartments in the Brooklyn district of New York.
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The scandal broke earlier this week, after the governor’s front-runner, Melissa DeRosa, told Democratic lawmakers that the data was delayed because officials were worried the information against the Trump administration’s Department of Justice would be used against us.
The new salvos of Republicans and Cuomo’s fellow Democrats are a strong turnaround from the early days of the pandemic, when Cuomo’s daily briefings helped build a national reputation for leadership. The briefings in which he vowed to deliver ‘just the facts’ brought him an international Emmy and led to his book ‘American Crisis’.
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The Cuomo administration has been dramatically endorsed for months over the number of COVID-19 deaths among long-term residents. That is now almost 15,000, compared to the 8,500 previously announced.
The new toll amounts to about one-seventh of the approximately 90,000 people living in nursing homes in New York from 2019, which is one of the most populous in the country.
Cuomo pointed to a small but growing body of research suggesting that an uncontrolled spread of the community is the biggest factor in the outbreak of nursing homes, and he said inadequate federal government assistance with travel restrictions, testing and protective equipment New Left York and its suburbs particularly vulnerable.
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He dismissed criticism as political, noting that the thousands of residents of nursing homes in hospitals were always counted in the state’s total score.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.