NBC Calls Out Gov. Cuomo for Forcing COVID Patients into Nursing Homes

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 11, 2020
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Denouncing it as “a path to disaster,” investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s Monday report for NBC Nightly News called out Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for forcing nursing homes in his state to take in coronavirus-positive patients just out of the hospital. On top of that, she pointed out how he had refused to give those facilities personal protective equipment (PPE). All of this, while ABC and CBS still refused to criticize their governor and bashed President Trump.

The segment was set up to laud and push the model being rolled out in Connecticut by Democratic Governor Ned Lamont. “Connecticut has made a bold move and we got a first look (…) An all COVID facility for nursing home residents getting out of the hospital,” McFadden boasted.

The body of her report consisted of pitted Lamont against Cuomo. And while, she noted that “most states” were doing the same thing as Cuomo, he was the only one she called out by name.

“Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont thinks forcing nursing homes to take COVID positive patients, as most states are doing, is a path to disaster,” she said. And backed up by a Politico headline pointing out that 5,000 had died, McFadden threw Cuomo under the bus. “Over the weekend, New York's Governor Cuomo reversed his controversial policy forcing nursing homes to take back COVID patients, and says they now have COVID-only facilities like this one on standby.”

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