Office of the NY Governor via AP
6 May 2021
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) defended his state’s controversial nursing home directive, which instructed nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients, contending this week it was Republicans who “politicized a health order” and referring to the order as a “smart” decision from a medical point of view.
“The Republicans politicized a health order that was put out by the state on March 25, which was, from a medical point of view, smart,” Cuomo said. “They wanted to blame nursing home deaths on that order”:
"The Republicans politicized that health order…by the Department of Health on March 25, which was from a medical point of view smart," @NYGovCuomo tries to claim.