Former New York Government Andrew Cuomo He should “respond” to the handling of nursing homes and victims during the coronavirus pandemic, was declared by New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday.
Adams commented when a journalist asked if he believed that “undergoing the number of numbers In the form of an covid The death of the elderly home disqualifies Cuomo for the mayor’s candidate. ”
“I met some members of the nursing homes and advocates. Some things want to do with them. But he has to answer that question on the track,” Adams replied. “Should this be automatic disqualification? No, I think you need to respond to the track, just what happened. And I think some of these family members will rejoice that.”
Report published in March 2022 by the New York State Supervisor Cuom’s health department “He was not transparent in his reporting of Coid-19 fatal groups in nursing homes,” and this “underestimated the number of deaths in nursing homes by as many as 50%” during some pandemic points.
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Former Government Andrew Cuomo speaks at the New York carpenter, while on Sunday, March 2, the mayor’s campaign. (AP/Julia Demree Nikhinson)
The former governor also grilled Republican legislators Last year, on the controversial directive issued by his administration in March 2020, which initially banned nursing homes to refuse to accept patients who tested positively on the Coid-19.
More than 9,000 recovery of patients with coronavirus were released from hospitals to nursing homes under the directive, which was later abolished in the midst of the speculation that it had accelerated the epidemic.
The state report later ordered by Cuomo’s heir, Vlad Kathy Hochul, revealed that, although policies about how nursing homes should cope with Coid-19 “rush and unicordinated”, they were based on the best understanding of science at the time.
Cuomo representatives denied that he had wrongly managed nursing homes during the pandemic.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams is running for re -elections this year. (AP/Julia Demree Nikhinson)
Cuomo ultimately resigned from office in August 2021 after charges of sexual harassment, which he denies.
Over the weekend, Cuomo announced his offer of the Mayor in New York, saying in a video that “[t]He simply feels threatening, out of control and in the crisis. ”
Asked about the accusations of sexual harassment against Cuomo, Adams said that Cuomo also “has to answer that in the mark of the campaign.”
Former New York Government Andrew Cuomo testifies to the selected pododbor on the Coronavirus pandemia on Capitol Hill, September 10, 2024. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
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“I believe in women [who] stated the allegations, respect what they stated. I believe what they said on the basis of the investigation and he has to answer the trail, “Adams said.
Fox News’ Bradford Betz, Maria Paronich and Associated Press contributed to this report.
