Cuomo on AG’s Damning Nursing Deaths Report: ‘Who Cares’ Where They Died, ‘They Died!’

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CUOMO: "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. It's not about pointing fingers or blame, it's that this became a political football, right? Look, whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it's -- people died. People died. I was in a hospital, I got transferred to a nursing home and my father died. My father was in a nursing home, got transferred to a hospital, and my father died. People died. By the way, the same people are dying today; 96 percent of the people who die are older people with co-morbidities, which happens to be the population that lives in nursing homes. It's continuing today, even with all the testing that we are 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 are only about 28 percent, only, but we are below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes. But who cares, 33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home, they died. And I dealt with the loss of my father. The pain is so incredible and inexplicable and why, and why, and why? It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy. And I understand maybe the instinct to -- to blame or to find some relief for the pain that you are feeling, but it is a tragedy, and it's a tragedy that continues today. I don'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, it doesn't mean people didn't die and it doesn't mean people won't die today, and people don't die tomorrow. And doesn't mean that I'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's going to continue. That is the curse of Covid. Can you protect old people with co-morbidities from Covid, totally? No. No. If we could, it would be over. If it wasn't over last year, it would have been over by now, right? It's still not over.”