#Emails show top Cuomo aide dominates state’s vaccine program

#Emails show top Cuomo aide dominates state’s vaccine program

“#Emails show top Cuomo aide dominates state’s vaccine program” New York City health officials and their upstate counterparts are deeply frustrated with how top Cuomo aides have centralized and micromanaged vaccine distribution across the state. Cuomo brought back his former budget director Larry Schwartz — who sits on the MTA’s board and serves as the…

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#Letters to the editor — Feb. 2, 2021

#Letters to the editor — Feb. 2, 2021

“#Letters to the editor — Feb. 2, 2021” The Issue: Gov. Cuomo’s response when asked about COVID deaths in nursing homes. Our governor, who gets praise for writing a book on the pandemic, had an inhuman and callous response regarding the elderly in either nursing homes or hospitals who died of COVID (“Callous Cuomo shrugs…

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#NY Senate Democrats block subpoena for COVID nursing home data

#NY Senate Democrats block subpoena for COVID nursing home data

“#NY Senate Democrats block subpoena for COVID nursing home data” Democrats who control the state Senate blocked a motion Monday to subpoena records of the Cuomo administration seeking a fuller accounting of nursing home residents who died from the coronavirus. The motion was made by Sen. Thomas O’Mara, the ranking Republican on the Investigations Committee…

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#Andrew Cuomo’s appalling nursing-home defense

#Andrew Cuomo’s appalling nursing-home defense

“#Andrew Cuomo’s appalling nursing-home defense” “It’s not about pointing fingers or blame. This became a political football,” Gov. Cuomo said Friday in response to questions about Attorney General Tish James’ finding that the state vastly underreported COVID-19 deaths of nursing-home residents. “Who cares,” he asked, if they died in a home or a hospital? “They…

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