Mayor Adams attacked ex-Gov. Cuomo’s dealing with of COVID and his nursing dwelling scandal on Monday — escalating his criticism of the previous governor gunning for his job.
“Someone said, well, he’s a great manager. Well, he darn sure didn’t manage that crisis well,” Adams stated of Cuomo at a press briefing Monday.
Each Adams and Cuomo have largely shunned bashing one another brazenly, as a substitute resorting to extra veiled jabs. However with Adams dropping each monetary backers and political endorsers to Cuomo, he seems to be ratcheting up the assaults in opposition to his opponent.
This comes a day after 9 mayoral candidates, excluding Cuomo and Adams, gathered to memorialize the anniversary of an order Cuomo gave as governor for nursing properties to readmit sufferers who had examined constructive for COVID.
The sufferers’ households, in addition to many elected officers, say Cuomo’s 2020 directive prompted 1000’s of deaths, and in 2021 state Legal professional Basic Letitia James discovered that Cuomo’s administration had undercounted 1000’s of COVID-related deaths in nursing properties.
“He incorrectly handled the nursing home issue,” Adams stated. “I think those family members are right, and I met with them, and I’m going to be communicating with them further.”
The mayor additionally stated there have been racial disparities in how Cuomo distributed vaccines and protecting provides like masks, in addition to how hospitals had been supported general.
“… It was because of defunding and destabilizing those hospitals that when they became ground zero … they were not prepared,” Adams stated.
