Today show interview between Governor Andrew Cuomo and Willie Geist - This interview is significant in that after denying the existence of his administration's 25 March 2020 directive to force nursing homes to blindly accept COVID patients without testing to determine if they were still contagious, which we archived here before New York's Department of Health later scrubbed it from their web server on 26 May 2020, he is now also denying the reason why he signed off on the policy:
"Would my Health Department have followed the federal guidance? Obviously not, knowing the political issue it was going to create. But there was no issue in reality is what I'm saying... because we never did have a scarcity of beds. We always had additional hospital beds and emergency beds, so no nursing home was forced to take someone. We never got there."
Here's a link to that portion of the video of the interview.
Based on his contemporary statements and actions in March 2020, April 2020, and May 2020, we think it is clear he did not believe that was true at the time. If he and other officials in his administration had really believed there was no issue with a scarcity of beds at the time, the https://cuomo-nursing-homes-timeline.blogspot.com/2020/03/25-march-2020.html would never have been issued.
