Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired back at former President Donald Trump Friday after he argued that disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo handled the COVID-19 pandemic better than the Sunshin…
Trump had accused DeSantis of being “average” compared to other GOP governors before suggesting Cuomo did a better job than DeSantis on COVID-19 policy.
“But if he thinks Cuomo handled it better, that’s an indication if something like this were to happen again, he would double down and do what he did in March of 2020,” the Florida governor went on. Cuomo’s executive order forcing nursing homes to take in people with COVID-19 led to perhaps thousands of deaths, according to a study.attributed “several hundred and possibly more than 1,000” deaths to the executive order, which allowed COVID-19 to spread among vulnerable seniors.tied to nursing homes by excluding deaths of patients that occurred at other facilities, such as hospitals, in a July 2020 report.
“That was a difficult situation. We didn’t have all the facts, and people can kind of understand if you did things that may not have worked out,” DeSantis said Friday, before arguing that Trump should regret having allowed Dr. Anthony Fauci to dictate COVID-19 mitigation policies in the early months of the pandemic.
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