<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>
<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—who was right, who was wrong—just as a father, as a son, what would your message be to those families today?&#8221;</p>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
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