Fox News Host Asks Andrew Cuomo Point-Blank Why He Doesn’t Just Apologize For Nursing Home Deaths

Fox News’ Lawrence Jones pressed Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday to simply apologize for the nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic while he was governor.

An audit from March 2022 revealed that the New York State Department of Health severely undercounted the deaths of patients in nursing homes by excluding those who died after being transported to the hospital. Cuomo stated on “Fox & Friends” that his administration followed all of the rules regarding its handling of the nursing homes, causing pushback from Jones.

“And on the COVID situation, there have been numerous investigations of that. We’ve goneall through it. We followed all the federal rules. We did nothing wrong. Of course,we lost 80,000 people. The nation lost 1.2 million people. It was horrific. It was horrific.” Cuomo said. 

“Just say I’m sorry, governor. Why not just tell those victims’ families, look, it was a pandemic.We were going through a tough time. I was learning on the job certain things. But I’m sorry you lost your loved one. That would help a lot for a lot of those people,” Jones said. 

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Cuomo stated that he had apologized, but then added that he simply followed federal guidance.

“I have said exactly that. New York had it first and worst.Nobody knew what we were dealing with. I had the best health experts from around the globegiving us advice. We followed the best advice. We followed the federal guidance. And people diedin a horrific way. There were no visitors allowed into nursing homes. And I apologize