Andrew Cuomo Is Projecting His Guilt On Staten Island In the early days of the China virus lockdowns, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a deadly decision to send COVID-positive patients into the state’s nursing homes. Ok. In the frantic first weeks of the crisis, little was known and many mistakes were made, fair enough. Cuomo could have simply said it was a mistake made during a crisis and moved on. Instead, he wrote a book congratulating himself for his leadership, and now this guy wants to lecture Staten Island. Cuomo announced at a press conference this week that Staten Island, the city’s smallest borough, now accounts for 25 percent of the city’s COVID deaths even though it has but 5 percent of the population. This is not true. In fact, Staten Island only has a small percentage of the city’s overall COVID deaths. When called on it, Cuomo’s office clarified that he meant in the last month.