1 March 2025: Andrew Cuomo Announces Run for New York City Mayor

Andrew Cuomo announces run for New York City mayor

After months with little to no new developments in his nursing home deaths scandals and few in Cuomo's sexual harassment scandals that led him to resign in disgrace as New York's state governor, Andrew M. Cuomo has announced he will run for mayor of New York City.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned amid numerous sexual harassment allegations in 2021, is running for New York City mayor.

The former governor made the announcement Saturday in a video on X, ending weeks of speculation.

The article mostly focuses on the sexual harassment scandals, but does mention Cuomo's nursing home deaths scandals:

In addition to the harassment scandal, Cuomo also came under scrutiny for allegations his administration concealed damaging information about nursing home deaths during the pandemic.

Cuomo was grilled on allegedly underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes during a GOP-led House committee hearing in September 2024. Cuomo largely stood by his decision-making during the pandemic -- including a March 2020 directive to readmit COVID-19 patients back into nursing homes -- and blamed the outsized death toll on what he described as then-President Donald Trump's lack of leadership.

"Every night, we got a census from the nursing homes, total nursing home deaths, total hospital deaths," Cuomo said during the combative hearing. "The numbers were less than certain, and they were highly problematic, because you were calling up a nursing home and basically asking them to do a forensic audit in the middle of a pandemic."

Cuomo also testified that he never directed his staff to report the number of nursing home-related fatalities as lower than they actually were.

"No, we said these are the numbers without the out-of-facility death numbers, which we will add when they're accurate," Cuomo said in the hearing.

The earliest reference we find in the timeline to Cuomo's claim the number of reported nursing home deaths omitted out-of-facility deaths because they were not accurate is on 26 April 2021, when Cuomo blamed "politics" for his and his administration's stonewalling of reporting complete nursing home death data.

Cuomo and his administration had a strong incentive to underreport COVID nursing home deathsbecause of his deadly 25 March 2020 directive. Cuomo's claims his administration only reported accurate deaths failed to pass contemporary fact checks.