Sidelined by Cuomo, nine top New York State health officials have quit in recent months nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Welcome to the latest installment of the Cuomo COVID Chronicles, in which we highlight the cartoonish failures of a governor long lauded by the press and other fellow Democrats as an exemplar of strong pandemic-era leadership – a myth he has worked diligently to cultivate and prop up. Yesterday, we reviewed his disastrous public relations response to a devastating report from his own administration s attorney general, which confirmed that his administration massively undercounted nursing home deaths in the state. Beyond that lethal policy error and subsequent cover-up, The New York Times now reports that the governor is facing more internal upheaval. Nine senior health officials have tendered their resignations or otherwise departed over Cuomo s handling of vaccinations and other issues. They say the governor has spurned scientific expertise and rewarded cronies:
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New York has hit plenty of hurdles already in its Covid-19 vaccination push, including the nor easter rolling in today that forced all appointments at state-run sites to be postponed. But
are white, even though they represent only 32 percent of the city’s population. On the other side, Black and Latino residents make up only 11 percent and 15 percent of vaccine recipients, respectively, compared to being 24 and 29 percent of the population.