Andrew Cuomo agrees to testify to Congress on Covid-19 nursing home advisory
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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after being subpoenaed last month, has agreed to testify to Congress about his controversial nursing home advisory from the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after being subpoenaed last month, has agreed to testify to Congress about his controversial nursing home advisory from the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday. “Governor Cuomo will be appearing before our select Subcommittee on the Pandemic on June 11,” Wenstrup, the Ohio Republican who chairs the panel, said on “The Lead.” “This will be a transcribed interview at 10 a.m.” Wenstrup said that lawmakers want to ask the former Democratic governor about the March 2020 advisory, which barred nursing homes from rejecting patients solely on the basis of a Covid-19 diagnosis. “I’m trying to learn why he would do something like this,” Wenstrup said. “As a doctor who has treated infections, it goes against all medical common sense to take someone who was highly contagious and put them amongst the most vulnerable.” In a March 5 letter to Cuomo sent along with the subpoena, Wenstrup alleged that the “misguided decision effectively admitted thousands of COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes, causing predictable but deadly consequences for New York’s most vulnerable.” Wenstrup said Friday that the committee started reaching out to Cuomo roughly nine months ago, and the panel was “ignored on many of our requests, there were delays.”
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