Andrew Cuomo tries to shift blame after COVID death coverup

New York governor Andrew Cuomo has attempted to shift blame from his state’s disastrous handling of nursing home deaths by claiming the Trump Administration “politicised” the scandal. Mr Cuomo refused to resign despite revelations up to half of all COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes were not reported. “That was a political investigation started by Donald Trump who politicised not just COVID but nursing homes and policies towards nursing homes," Mr Cuomo said. “And wanted to blame democratic governors like myself, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was all our fault”. Mr Cuomo then denied any wrongdoing. “I’ve done nothing wrong, period. I’m not resigning and I’m doing my job everyday,” he said. The New York Governor and his administration have been accused of deliberately falsifying the number of COVID-19 related deaths in state nursing homes. In January the New York Attorney-General Letitia James released a report showing the number of COVID-19 related deaths in nursing at least 62 state nursing homes had been underreported by up to 50 per cent. Last month The New York Times reported some of Cuomo aides had gone to greater lengths to hide the real numbers and had tried to stop health officials from releasing it to the public. The FBI are currently operating a federal investigation into the coverup.