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Andrew Cuomo, once America’s most beloved governor, is fighting for his political life. At least six women have accused him of sexual harassment, and the FBI is probing how his administration tallied nursing home deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But the popular pandemic narrative of Cuomo as a successful responder to a crisis that has been lately led astray is not fully accurate. New York state has America’s second-highest coronavirus death toll nearly 50,000 people have died and death rate. And choices made a year ago by Cuomo and his administration fueled the carnage in the state.