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Could Andrew Cuomo’s Career Really be Over?
It’s looking like the nursing home scandal will be difficult for him to escape, and it should be.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the United States, allegations about Governor Andrew Cuomo’s devastating mishandling of the virus and its spread within New York’s nursing homes have been circulating for months. Recently, after a top aide was recorded admitting that the Cuomo administration had lied about the data coming out of nursing homes following his order that they must accept Covid positive residents, the scandal has only continued to grow.
Considering the fact that I work in a nursing home in Northern New York that recently lost 20 residents to the virus over the course of an outbreak that lasted two months, this story felt more personal than arguably any other. The only reason we were able to avoid the virus for as long as we were was because our Director of Nursing had the foresight to fill the facility to capacity before the virus came to our area, but considering how quickly and brutally New York City was hit in the early days of the pandemic, I can’t help wondering how much death and suffering was inflicted upon the most vulnerable people among us, their loved ones, and their caretakers as well as a direct result of Cuomo’s horrific policies.
