In a rare show of bipartisan unity, nearly all candidates in the New York City mayoral race gathered to criticize former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event, held in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill, featured grieving families who blamed Cuomo for what they called a 'failure of leadership' in protecting elderly residents. Cuomo, who is a frontrunner in the race, has faced ongoing scrutiny for his administration’s decision to send COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes, a move critics say led to thousands of preventable deaths. The candidates used the memorial event to argue that Cuomo’s pandemic response disqualifies him from leading the city.
The controversy over his handling of the crisis remains a central issue in the mayoral race.
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Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during COVID was a complete disaster, and it’s about time people hold him accountable. Sending COVID-positive patients back into those facilities was reckless and cost so many lives—it’s not something we can just forget. The fact that he’s still in politics after all of this is honestly infuriating, and we need leadership that actually values transparency and public health. New York deserves better than another Cuomo comeback.
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Grieving families join Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral foes to mark grim COVID nursing-home debacle: ‘Failure of leadership’
She was abandoned by the very system that was supposed to protect her when the pandemic struck,” Alexa Rivera said of her elderly mother.
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9 Mayoral Candidates Unite to Attack Cuomo on Nursing Home Deaths
Nearly all the people running for New York City mayor appeared at a Covid memorial event with a shared message: Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s pandemic response is a reason not to support him.
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