Cuomo Steps Up Defense as Ocasio-Cortez Seeks Probe
Cuomo is facing growing scrutiny over his administration’s handling of nursing-home deaths.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he should have been more aggressive in calling out what he called his critics’ lies and misinformation about the nursing-home residents who died of Covid-19.
Cuomo said he made a mistake in being “complacent” and not responding earlier to critiques of his administration’s handling of information about nursing-home fatalities. “I saw them and dismissed them as false agendas and partisan politics,” the governor said Friday during a virus briefing.