{"id":254350,"date":"2021-05-20T05:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-family-got-special-covid-testing-while-he-was-under-fire\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T05:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T02:54:32","slug":"cuomo-family-got-special-covid-testing-while-he-was-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-family-got-special-covid-testing-while-he-was-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo family got special COVID testing while he was under fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo family got special COVID testing while he was under fire<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s family continued to get special access to rapid COVID-19 testing until at least April \u2014 after the politician came under fire for pulling the same move during the early days of the pandemic, according to a report Wednesday.<\/p>\n

One of the governor\u2019s daughters, Mariah Kennedy Cuomo, and her boyfriend, Tellef Lundevall, submitted priority samples to a state-run site in Albany on April 3, according to the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

The VIP samples \u2014\u00a0 known in the Health Department as \u201cspecials\u201d \u2014 were rushed to the state\u2019s premier lab, Wadsworth Center, and\u00a0 processed within hours, the paper reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The couple received the special treatment because they were going to see Cuomo on Easter weekend and there was nobody around to do on-site testing, the Governor\u2019s office told The Post.<\/p>\n

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Mariah Kennedy Cuomo and her boyfriend submitted priority COVID-19 test samples to a state-run site in Albany in April.<\/figcaption>
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But high-priority testing status at state labs is supposed to be meant for urgent cases \u2014 including ones linked to possible outbreaks \u2014\u00a0 not people who are simply well-connected or influential, the paper reported.<\/p>\n

The move came just days after news<\/a> broke that Cuomo directed members of his family and bigwigs with ties to his administration get priority COVID-19 testing last spring, back when the virus was raging and the tests were hard to get.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one reason Health Department workers were alarmed by the request to rush tests for Cuomo\u2019s daughter and her boyfriend, according to the paper.\u00a0 Others at the state-run site called it frustrating, considering testing is now widely available in the state.<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s visitors are routinely tested on a portable rapid test machine at the Capitol or the governor\u2019s mansion\u2014 but nobody was around to operate them because it was a holiday weekend, the governor\u2019s office told The Post.<\/p>\n

Elkan Abramowitz, a private lawyer who is representing Cuomo, called use of the priority label \u201cproper\u201d protocol.<\/p>\n

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High-priority testing status is supposed to be meant for urgent cases.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThey were going to come in contact with the governor,\u201d Abramowitz told the Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a proper exercise of discretion to give priority testing to anybody who came in contact with the governor,\u201d Abramowitz said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo and his CNN anchor brother, Chris Cuomo, along with one of their sisters and their mom, Matilda Cuomo,\u00a0reportedly got priority COVID-19 tests several times during the early days of the pandemic, it was revealed in March<\/p>\n

The accusations reportedly led Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James to last month\u00a0 call on New York\u2019s Joint Commission on Public Ethics to investigate the possible abuse of testing protocol \u2014 and has since prompted a probe by federal prosecutors, according to the Times.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s family, including Chris Cuomo, reportedly got priority tests several times during the early days of COVID-19.<\/figcaption>
Santiago Felipe\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Giorgio DeRosa, a prominent Albany lobbyist and the father of the governor\u2019s most senior aide, Melissa DeRosa, also received the special rapid testing in March 2020, according to the report\u00a0 \u2014 an allegation that had not been previously reported.<\/p>\n

A rep for Cuomo told The Post that, in DeRosa\u2019s case, the priority testing was necessary because he interacted with someone who days later was hospitalized and later died from COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe virus had nothing to do with occupation. It\u2019s all about documented exposure and the capability to spread it more,\u201d said Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s office has acknowledged that Cuomo and his family got priority access to testing during the early weeks of the pandemic.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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