{"id":113839,"date":"2021-01-29T23:08:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T04:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113839"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:58:08","slug":"governor-cuomo-on-the-issue-of-where-coronavirus-patients-died-who-cares-they-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governor-cuomo-on-the-issue-of-where-coronavirus-patients-died-who-cares-they-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Cuomo On The Issue Of Where Coronavirus Patients Died: \u2018Who Cares? \u2026 They Died.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgovernor-cuomo-on-the-issue-of-where-coronavirus-patients-died-who-cares-they-died%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113839&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo faced questions on Friday about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as it pertains to nursing homes, which comes just a day after the state&#8217;s attorney general <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/28\/ny-ag-letitia-james-reluctantly-outs-cuomos-nursing-home-horrors\/\">indicated<\/a> that nursing home deaths in the state were undercounted by approximately 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your staff is often unapologetically aggressive when it comes to defending your policies, particularly on social media,&#8221; a reporter said to Cuomo during a press conference. &#8220;But in this case, many of the people who disagree with how this whole situation was handled with the nursing homes have a very personal connection to it. They&#8217;ve lost someone in the pandemic tied to a nursing home. So the policy aside\u2014who was right, who was wrong\u2014just as a father, as a son, what would your message be to those families today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I would say is everyone did the best they could. When I say the State Department of Health, as the report said, the State Department of Health followed federal guidance. So if you think there was a mistake, then go talk to the federal government,&#8221; Cuomo responded. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about pointing fingers of blame. It&#8217;s that this became a political football, right? Look, whether a person died in the hospital or died in a nursing home, it&#8217;s, the people died. People died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;96% of the people who die are older people with comorbidities, which happens to be the population that lives in nursing homes,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s continuing today, even with all the testing that we&#8217;re doing. If you look at New York State, we have a lower percentage of deaths in nursing homes than other states. A third of all deaths in this nation are from nursing homes. New York state we&#8217;re only about 28% &#8230; but were below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But who cares? 3,328 died in a hospital, died in a nursing home. They died,&#8221; Cuomo continued. &#8220;And I dealt with the loss of my father. The pain is so incredible. And inexplicable. And why and why and why. It&#8217;s a tragedy. It&#8217;s a tragedy. And I understand maybe the instinct to blame or to find some relief for the pain that you&#8217;re feeling. But it is a tragedy and it&#8217;s a tragedy that continues today. I don&#8217;t believe, I believe everybody did the best they could. I believe the federal government, CDC, I believe they gave the best guidance they could. I believe they give the best guidance they can today. I believe the State Department of Health, they gave their best guidance and made the best decisions on the facts they had. But doesn&#8217;t mean people didn&#8217;t die. And it doesn&#8217;t mean people won&#8217;t die today. And people won&#8217;t die tomorrow. And it doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m not going to get up here tomorrow or Monday and read a death number on that screen and think about the 100 people who died and then the hundreds of family members who are home crying that day. And that&#8217;s going to continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is the curse of COVID. Can you protect old people with comorbidities from COVID? Totally? No. No. If we could, it would be over. If it wasn&#8217;t over last year, it would have been over by now, right? It&#8217;s still not over,&#8221; he concluded in answering the question. &#8220;So I understand the pain. I understand the search for answers. But it was a tragedy, and I feel the anguish and I feel the pain. And I get the anger. My father died. I wish I had someone to blame. That would have made me feel better, maybe. But they are in my thoughts and prayers. I believe. Why COVID? Why did God do this? I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. But it was cruel. And it was terrible. And it still is. And luckily, I&#8217;m blessed with faith. And that helped me in times of pain. But my heart goes out to each and every one. And I feel it personally. And everybody should know it&#8217;s not because, and when I do the death numbers on Monday, it&#8217;s not because everyone didn&#8217;t do everything they could to prevent it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cuomo on nursing home deaths: \u201cWho cares [where they died]? They died!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VECpQNKF2I\">pic.twitter.com\/VECpQNKF2I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1355211151429279754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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