Andrew Cuomo Denies His Order Killed Thousands of Nursing Home Residents: “We Didn’t Lose Anyone”

During a nine-minute softball interview with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on MSNBC Tuesday morning, anchor Stephanie Ruhle only asked a single nine-second question about the Democrat’s recently-changed policy of forcing COVID-positive patients to return to nursing homes. Nearly 5,000 residents in such facilities across the state have died of the virus since the policy was put in place in late March. This was the extent to which Ruhle mentioned the controversy: “While I have you, you have been criticized for your comments about nursing homes. Some people say you did not act quickly enough. Too little, too late. What is your response to that criticism?” There was no mention of the death toll in New York nursing homes and she made sure to leave it as open-ended as possible.-- More...