25 March 2021: The One Year Anniversary of a Deadly Directive

One year later, Cuomo won’t admit deadly nursing-home mandate was a mistake

One year after forcing New York nursing homes to blindly admit COVID patients discharged from hospitals to free up hospital beds, Governor Cuomo still refuses to acknowledge the action and its deadly consequences were a mistake. The New York Post' editors recount many of the key aspects that have caused scandals to explode about Governor Cuomo and his administration:

Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s deadly nursing-home mandate — which he still won’t acknowledge was a mistake. He’s even shrugged off questions about its impact with a callous, “Who cares?”

On March 25, 2020, Cuomo’s Department of Health issued the infamous order that forced nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. They weren’t even allowed to test admissions for the virus. Why? His donor pals at the Greater New York Hospital Association were worried hospitals would become overwhelmed (which never happened).

Home operators immediately protested, but the administration refused to let them put contagious patients in the field hospital at the Javits Center or on the USNS Comfort — even though Cuomo had warned the virus would spread through nursing homes “like fire through dry grass.”

The order became public knowledge only after The Post’s Bernadette Hogan asked about it at a press conference. Eventually, the resulting public furor led Team Cuomo to quietly rescind it — while leaving intact a similar order that covered homes for the developmentally disabled.

Giving credit where it's due: The New York Post has largely owned the story of Governor Cuomo's COVID nursing home scandals from the beginning.

The editorial continues because the scandal didn't stop with the rescinding of the Cuomo administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive. Do read the whole thing!