3 January 2021: FEMA Manager Rips Cuomo COVID Nursing Home Policies

Ex-FEMA honcho blasts vaccine rollout, nursing home deaths

This article covers a lot of ground, but here's the key summary where the topic of New York's COVID-19 nursing home deaths is involved:

In an exit interview with The Post, Tom Von Essen, who served as the New York regional director of the Federal Emergency Management and was city Fire Commissioner during the Sept. 11 attacks, slammed the nation's early response to the coronavirus pandemic, the slow pace of vaccine distribution — and called New York's nursing home death toll its "biggest failure" in the crisis.

The article also reports the Cuomo administration's response to his comments:

Responding to Von Essen's criticism, Cuomo spokesman Peter Ajemian said, "The reason Von Essen no longer has a job is because the federal government's COVID response was so awful that his boss was overwhelmingly voted out.

"He can do as many exit interviews as he wants but none of them will change the fact that over 350,000 Americans died as a result of the Trump administration's incompetence and failure to implement a coherent plan."

The Cuomo administration's efforts to shift the blame for COVID-19 deaths among the New York's nursing home residents following the implementation its disastrous 25 March 2020 directive are apparently continuing into the new year.