CNN’s Chris Cuomo is remaining silent about the nursing home scandal surrounding his older brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Since the scandal broke out last week, Cuomo has neither mentioned it on his show nor tweeted about it – devoting tweets and airtime to former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
ARCHIVE: Secretary of Governor Melissa DeRosa, is accompanied by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, while speaking to journalists during a news conference in New York.
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The governor received enthusiastic praise from CNN and MSNBC early on for his way of dealing with the pandemic and they largely ignored his guideline for nursing homes to accept patients who had or were suspected of having COVID-19. The decision created a violent attack on COVID-19 cases that infected thousands of elderly patients and resulted in hundreds of deaths among the state’s most vulnerable population.
Cuomo eventually reversed the decision – but thousands died of COVID-19 in New York’s nursing homes before he reversed the course.
Chris Cuomo was widely ridiculed for a series of interviews with his older brother during the height of the nursing home crisis, in which they joked and teased one another, while the namesake of “Cuomo’s prime time” largely avoided questions difficult. During a shameful interview, the Cuomo brothers basically treated CNN viewers as an advertising comedy routine.
The CNN anchor finally mentioned the nursing home controversy to his brother after ignoring it for at least 10 on-air interviews since the scandal began, but Cuomo quickly pointed out how there were deaths in nursing homes “across the country” and said “we have to figure out how to do it better next time” before the next wave of viruses occurs.
At the end of the interview, the CNN anchor praised the governor as the New York leader and even admitted to viewers: “Of course, I’m not objective”, while expressing his love for his brother.
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The governor’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, told Democratic lawmakers that the Cuomo government took months to release data that revealed how many people who lived in nursing homes died of COVID-19 because officials “froze” in fear that the information “was used against us.”
Republicans who regard the admission of comments as a “cover-up” are now calling for investigations and the resignations of Cuomo and DeRosa. A growing number of Democrats are joining calls to rescind Cuomo’s emergency executive powers, detonating the government’s defense of its secrecy.
Disclosing DeRosa’s comments, made on a conference call on Wednesday with Democratic legislative leaders, came as the Democratic governor – a third-term Democrat who says he will run again in 2022 and wrote a book publicizing how he dealt with the pandemic – and yours The administration was already experiencing adverse reactions to the treatment and reporting of outbreaks in nursing homes.
Cuomo refused for months to release data on how the pandemic hit nursing home residents, rather than pointing to numbers more favorable to his administration.
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In the past few weeks, a court order and a report by the state attorney general has forced the state to recognize that the death toll in nursing homes is almost 15,000, when it previously reported 8,500 – a figure that excluded residents who died after being taken away. for hospitals. The new number reached about a seventh of the people living in nursing homes in 2019 in New York.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.