21 June 2021: What Did Dr. Fauci Say to Governor Cuomo?

Peter and Daniel Arbeeny: We are COVID orphans. Here are 12 Qs for Dr. Fauci on Cuomo's nursing home moves

This op-ed by Daniel and Peter Arbeeny, whose father died of COVID-19 in Brooklyn after being discharged from a nursing home where he had been exposed to the coronavirus, picks up on one of Governor Cuomo's claims that he talked with U.S. COVID czar, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Our 89-year-old father, Norman Arbeeny, a lifelong Brooklynite, died at his home from COVID-19 on April 21, 2020, after contracting the virus at a nursing home.

Ever since his passing, we – his proud sons – have been on a quest to seek the truth about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s now infamous March 25, 2020, nursing home advisory. Through that advisory, the governor sent 9,000 COVID-positive hospital patients into nursing homes, where they infected vulnerable residents and staff.

Cuomo has publicly stated that Dr. Anthony Fauci and he conferred on this matter during the early months of the pandemic. Curious to learn whether Fauci had endorsed the governor’s nursing home policy, we submitted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to uncover any potential written correspondence between Fauci and Cuomo or any of his staff.

HHS promptly replied that no such correspondence exists – or between Fauci and anyone from New York state government – in the early months of the pandemic. Now that Fauci’s emails are public, it is shocking that he never discussed public health policy via email with any governmental official in the ground zero state for the COVID-19 pandemic in America.

That's not to say no discussion between Governor Cuomo and Dr. Fauci ever took place, which is the point of several of the questions the Arbeeny brothers go on to raise in this op-ed. Many of the questions are of the sort that will be raised in upcoming legal proceedings, the answers to which are likely to raise additional questions. Follow the link above to the article to see what the Arbeeny's are seeking Dr. Fauci to answer.