NYC Mayor Adams Bluntly Says Former Governor Cuomo 'Incorrectly Handled' Nursing Homes During COVID

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During a press briefing on Monday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) was asked about former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D-NY) handling of nursing homes during the initial outbreak of COVID.

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00:00Yeah, and I'm doing analysis of all of those candidates to see who was around at the time.

00:13I was here at the time, and many of those candidates were home shelter in place.

00:18I was in the streets.

00:19I was in the streets dealing with COVID with real people, nurses and doctors.

00:24I was giving out masks and NYCHA.

00:27All of these other candidates, they were home.

00:29They were home while New Yorkers were suffering, and he incorrectly handled the nursing home

00:37issues.

00:38I think those family members are right, and I met with them, and I'm going to be communicating

00:42with them further.

00:43But also, if you go back, doing analysis back then, there was racial disparity in how he

00:50dealt with even vaccines.

00:52You know, black and brown communities were not being fairly vaccinated.

00:56We were not giving out face masks to—in NYCHA residents.

01:01Many of our nurses in hospital did not have PPEs, as they were deserved.

01:06I remember going to some of the hospitals.

01:08They had garbage bags on, and they were holding—they were using PPEs, the face masks, for weeks.

01:15And then, many people missed—you talk about Elmhurst Hospital.

01:21It was because of defunding and destabilizing those hospitals that, when they became ground

01:25zero, they were not prepared.

01:26And so, we need to do a real analysis.

01:29And so, when I look at, you know, some of my black and brown endorsers of the former

01:36governor, they need to go look at what I was saying back then of how COVID was unfairly

01:43treating, and the responses was unfair to the diverse black and brown communities.

01:51The impact was real, and we need to analyze that.

01:53All of this needs to be part of the conversation, as we talk about what we're going to do

01:59in the future.

02:00Someone said, well, he's a great manager.

02:01Well, you should have managed that crisis well, like I managed COVID, and like I managed

02:06230,000 migrants and asylum seekers, and like I was able to get the bond raiders to say,

02:11no matter what fiscal crisis you were facing, you recovered us, and like I brought more

02:15jobs in the city and the city's history, and like I took 22,000 guns off our streets

02:21and brought down homicides and shootings.

02:23That's what I call a good manager.

02:26How was that, Marsha?

NYC Mayor Adams Bluntly Says Former Governor Cuomo 'Incorrectly Handled' Nursing Homes During COVID

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