Washington Publish rips Cuomo’s ‘Who cares?’ remark on nursing property deaths: ‘We really should care’

The Washington Publish slammed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., over his “poor” remark Friday dismissing the relevance of an exact rely of COVID-associated nursing residence deaths. 

Cuomo remained defiant for the duration of a press meeting on Friday soon after his state Attorney Standard Letitia James launched a report that Cuomo’s Department of Wellbeing could have underreported coronavirus fatalities in nursing homes by as significantly as 50 %. 

“Search, regardless of whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it’s — the men and women died,” Cuomo claimed, later inquiring, “Who cares? 33 [percent], 28 [percent], died in a hospital, died in a nursing house. They died!”

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That drew fireplace from the Post, which ran the headline, “Andrew Cuomo’s bad ‘who cares’ respond to on coronavirus nursing-household info.” 

“From community coverage viewpoint, even though, we must care,” Post senior political reporter Aaron Blake reacted. “A dying is without a doubt a death, but there are big and very valid issues about whether or not nursing-residence policies led to avoidable types. To the extent a lot more deaths occurred in or came from that setting, it lets us to appraise how sizeable that challenge was and how a lot corrective action is necessary. Cuomo has to know that.”

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Blake insisted Cuomo’s “Who cares?” remark was delivered “defensively and sick-advisedly” just after the governor was earlier hailed by the media for his “candor and humility” at his each day push briefings in the early months of the pandemic.

“That is decidedly not what transpired Friday,” Blake declared. 

When the controversy does not absolutely conclude that New York was “specially derelict” pertaining to the nursing residence deaths, the Post reporter pressured James’ report “raises the quite serious prospect of a include-up, given how a great deal of a negative narrative this was for so many months about his dealing with of the virus.”

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“There is certainly a inclination to consider to search for men and women to blame in this sort of conditions. But that is due to the fact one thing pretty lousy has occurred, and all people in a position of electricity ought to be open up to currently being 2nd-guessed and to their claims and actions remaining subject matter to scrutiny,” Blake wrote. “As an alternative, Cuomo prompt this is a lot ado about almost nothing — which, irrespective of his real culpability for the negative facts, is rarely the pittance he implied.”