While His Brother Put COVID Patients in Nursing Homes, Cuomo Smeared Florida

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 14, 2020
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We now know that Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had been packing coronavirus patients into nursing homes for weeks, possibly killing an untold number of people. But while he was doing that, his CNN host little brother, Chris “Fredo” Cuomo was lashing out at the state of Florida and Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, suggesting they didn’t care about the lives of non-residents. Now, we know that New York’s handling of the crisis was a disaster while Florida faired pretty well.

During the April 29 edition of Cuomo PrimeTime, the lesser Cuomo ended his poorly rated show with a segment dedicated to a conspiracy theory that Florida was trying to hide their coronavirus death toll. “All right. Look, I know there are numbers at you, flying all over the place. And I know it's hard to trust them. And I'm going to give you a new reason to be distrustful of the numbers,” he declared as he led into an interview with a Tampa Bay Times reporter.

In the course of the interview, it came up that Florida was holding back the death numbers so they could see how many of the dead were residents of the state. Cuomo saw this as some kind of nefarious plot to hide the facts. And claiming he was doing it out of a “surplus of fairness” (not because it was his job as a journalist), Cuomo decided to share the state’s reasoning:

Now, [reporter Kathleen] McGrory was already fair to them, but the Florida state response, just so you know here—a surplus of fairness is, “reporting deaths by residency is the appropriate method utilized to calculate disease rates which allow for a more accurate analysis of disease impacts on populations through the incorporation of demographic data. A critical aspect of public he planning.”

I don't buy it. Why? Because whether you're a resident or not, if you're in a place and they have to figure out public health planning, they have to plan for the people that are there,” he opined.

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