As the management of the pandemic in New York nursing homes is the subject of a federal investigation, Andrew Cuomo must contain a sling from his own political family. According to the press, the aura of the Democrat, praised in the spring for his response to the health crisis, has evaporated.
In politics, everything goes very quickly. Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic Governor of New York praised for his handling of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, is at the center of what currently constitutes “The biggest American political scandal”, highlighted The Guardian in a chronicle.
Cuomo and his administration are particularly suspected of having deliberately underestimated the number of deaths linked to Covid-19, specifies the daily, which mentions a “Cuomogate”.
According to The New York Post, which has devoted several headlines to the case in recent days, the FBI and federal justice have opened an investigation into the governor’s way of handling retirement homes in the context of the pandemic.
Cuomo and his team initially came under heavy criticism over a March 25 directive (and since rescinded) that ordered nursing homes “To admit infected patients leaving hospitals”, explains the conservative New York tabloid.
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