CUOMO'S COVID CHUTZPAH, WSJ, MORE ON THE GOVERNOR'S NURSING HOME SCANDAL AND CUOMO THREATENS TO QUARANTINE FLORIDIANS, DESANTIS SAYS JUST DON'T PUT THEM IN NURSING HOMES

Worth reading in its entirety--but here's one of many relevant excerpts---detailed, factually cited, and worth the subscription to the paper alone:

Cuomo’s Covid Chutzpah - Texas and Florida have a long way to go to match New York’s virus record.

As for chutzpah, the prize goes to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who reveled in the misery of others on Friday: “Oh, I say to them all, look at the numbers. You played politics with this virus and you lost. You told the people of your state and you told the people of this country, White House, ‘Don’t worry about it. Just open up, go about your business, this is all Democratic hyperbole.’ Oh, really? Now you see 27 states with the numbers going up. You see the death projections going up.”

To reinforce his thumb in the eye, Mr. Cuomo declared that travelers to New York from Utah, Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida will need to quarantine for 14 days. ......This will be difficult to enforce, but Mr. Cuomo said New York police may pull over cars with out-of-state licenses.

This comes with ill-grace from the man whose state still has by far the most virus infections and deaths. He’s also contradicting his own statements from earlier in the pandemic. When Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo in March had police stop cars with New York license plates, Mr. Cuomo threatened to sue and tweeted, “We will not let New Yorkers be discriminated against.” Now he’s discriminating against other states, and notice that just one of his eight target states is run by a Democrat.

Mr. Cuomo is responsible for the single worst public-policy mistake of this pandemic: His administration’s order requiring nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients from hospitals. That bad judgment let the virus rampage through institutions with the most vulnerable populations. Florida has some 4,000 homes for assisted senior living but locked down those facilities and it tests every worker at those institutions every two weeks.

None of the new state flare-ups come close to the severity of New York’s. New York state’s average positivity test rate exceeded 30% in late March and peaked above 50% in early April. Deaths are a lagging indicator, but New York had more than 900 fatalities a day at the peak. That’s more than as many daily deaths as there are in the entire U.S.............READ MORE AT https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomos-covid-chutzpah-11593212522?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

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DeSantis takes dig at Cuomo for considering quarantining Floridians

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a dig at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus response — now that the Empire State is “considering” imposing a quarantine on visitors from the Sunshine State. “I would just ask if that’s done just please do not quarantine any Floridians in the nursing homes in New York,” DeSantis quipped Saturday at a press conference in Tallahassee when asked about the potential travel restrictions. Cuomo has faced criticism for virus-related deaths among the elderly population after health officials ordered nursing homes and rehabilitation centers admit to COVID-19 patients being discharged from hospitals. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/desantis-takes-dig-at-gov-cuomo-over-quarantine-for-floridians/ 

UPDATED 2021: MORE THAN 12K NURSING HOME DEATHS https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/ny-nursing-home-covid-deaths-more-than-12k-cuomo-health-chief/