Perhaps if that had happened, they’d start looking more seriously at Cuomo’s woeful mismanagement of the state with, by far, the most COVID-19 cases in America.
And it isn’t just that Cuomo’s state has the most coronavirus cases and deaths. Or that it has the most deaths in nursing homes, generally acknowledged to house the most vulnerable populations of individuals. Or that he forced nursing homes to accept patients recovering from COVID-19 from hospitals, exacerbating (and, in fact, perhaps even creating) the problem.
It’s that, according to a Thursday New York Times article, Cuomo’s problem wasn’t just limited to his state. New Yorkers were the “the primary source of infections around the United States,” The Times reported, a process that Cuomo helped facilitate by threatening to sue anyone that quarantined visitors from the Empire state.
A study of the virus’ signature mutations found that there were outbreaks caused by New Yorkers reaching from coast to coast, including in Arizona, Louisiana and Texas.
“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,” said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.
Even in Washington state, the location of the first outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States, 42 percent of tested cases were traced to New York, according to The Times.
In California, 50 percent of the cases tested were associated with the New York outbreak, compared with 32 percent from Washington, The Times reported. Seventy percent of the tested cases in Texas came from New York. In Arizona, it was 84 percent. In Ohio, 88 percent and in Iowa, 100 percent. Also, 100 percent of tested cases in Louisiana, another major hot spot for the virus, were traced to New York.
At this point, it’s probably helpful to remember what happened when the governors of other states wanted visitors from New York to quarantine if they traveled there:
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