As of this writing, he is clinging to his job as calls to step down crescendo within his own party. Several women allege the Democratic governor sexually harassed them—a particularly inconvenient situation for Cuomo, considering he has publicly positioned himself as a champion for women in the #MeToo era.
The accusations deserve to be taken seriously. But they should not be considered the biggest scandal Cuomo faces. That distinction goes to his pandemic related job performance, which resulted in so many unnecessary deaths in his state that he appears to have felt the need to obscure the record from the public. “PEOPLE VALUE THE truth,” Cuomo said in a January interview on MSNBC. “Incompetent government kills people. More people died than needed to die [of] COVID.”
Two days after that interview, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that the Cuomo administration had covered up the actual number of New Yorkers who died from the coronavirus as a result of Cuomo’s order requiring nursing homes to admit elderly COVID-19 patients. “COVID-19 resident deaths associated with nursing homes in New York state appear to be undercounted by [the Department of Health] by approximately 50 percent,” the report said.
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