Cuomo continues to deflect blame over admins disastrous COVID-19 nursing home directive in half-baked apology

Former New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo continued to deflect blame over his administration’s controversial directive to send infected COVID-19 patients into nursing homes — which resulted in thousands of deaths — during the worst period of the killer pandemic. During an interview with FOX 5 NY, Cuomo, who recently entered the Big Apple’s mayoral race, offered a half-baked apology to repeated questions about the pandemic and failed to assume responsibility for the disastrous March 2020 decision that shuttled sick patients into senior care facilities statewide.The disgraced pol, who resigned from the governor’s office in 2021 following a slew of scandals, instead placed fault on health care experts who he said “did not know how many people were going to die.”“COVID was a horrendous, once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.

It focused on nursing homes, as you know, because that’s where COVID preyed the most,” Cuomo, 67, told reporter Rosanna Scotto at the Rain Boston Road Senior Center in the Bronx Friday. “Two million Americans died during COVID.Every one of them was a tragedy.

People died in nursing homes in New York under the worst situations imaginable.”When asked if he owed New Yorkers whose family members died inside nursing homes an apology, Cuomo responded: “I’m sorry for what they had to go through.”“It was horrific,” he continued, adding that he followed the regulations advised by health experts.“I get why the health department wanted these restrictions, but it was a terrible, terrible situation.”Cuomo then questioned why it took the federal government so long to create proper testing and vaccines to combat the virus, claiming the feds knew about COVID months before it led to a nationwide shutdown. He also touted New York’s low death rate during that time and refuted accusations he misled the public on the number of nursing home deaths, saying the topic was “very political and very weaponized.”The ex-governor, who has repeatedly ...