MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace may have stepped forward in his praise for New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily press conferences in the early weeks of the pandemic.
Cuomo has been criticized in recent days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report claiming that the state Department of Health may have underreported coronavirus deaths in nursing homes by up to 50 percent. According to the revised figures released by the Cuomo administration last week, a total of 12,743 nursing home residents have been confirmed or presumably died of coronavirus in nursing homes and hospitals as of January 19. Previous state counts included only residents who actually died in nursing homes – and none who died in a hospital during treatment.
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However, while the political controversy at Cuomo’s nursing home has made critics complain for months, much of the mainstream media ignored the governor’s ill-fated order and hailed his “leadership”, including the “Deadline: White House” presenter.
“People will watch this @NYGovCuomo presser when they study crisis leadership – especially their observations about disinformation being more dangerous than the virus,” Wallace tweeted in March 2020.
Cuomo faced even more turmoil on Monday after The New York Times reported that nine of its top health officials have left his government in recent months due to clashes with the governor.
The story quoted the Democrat as casting doubt on what “experts” have to say about the COVID outbreak.
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“When I say ‘experts’ in quotes in the air, it looks like I’m saying that I don’t really trust the experts … because I don’t,” Cuomo said at a news conference last Friday.
Despite praise from the mainstream media, the New York governor has faced an intense reaction to his policy that required health care facilities to accept COVID patients from overcrowded hospitals. This policy was blamed for the deaths of thousands of elderly people in their state who belonged to residences for assistants.