30 July 2021: Cuomo Still Making Up New York COVID Data

The week in whoppers: Cuomo’s deadly leadership, Pelosi’s partisan panel and more

The New York Post's editors featured a new fact check of a claim made by Andrew M. Cuomo as part of a longer editorial. The following excerpt deals just with a statement Cuomo made on Wednesday, 28 June 2021:

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions:

This statement:

“Florida is seeing the greatest increase in COVID cases in the nation. What’s the lesson? Denial does not work. Follow the science, follow the facts. We were aggressive, we showed leadership, and it worked.”

— Gov. Cuomo, July 28

We say: Despite multiple probes into his coverup of nursing-home COVID deaths, the gov still touts his pandemic “leadership” — and continues to falsify “the facts.” A Reuters analysis found COVID cases in Florida increased the week ending Sunday by 60.5 percent — and in New York by 70.1 percent. The Empire State’s death rate per 100,000 people as of Tuesday was 276; the Sunshine State’s, 180. New York’s death rate is second only to New Jersey’s — some “leadership.”

Falsely representing New York's COVID-related figures seems to be a standard operating practice under the Cuomo administration.