> Right up there with Newsom and Cuomo. Cuomo cut Medicaid funding by $6 billion during the pandemic. He dragged his feet on issuing a stay-at-home order for a

> Right up there with Newsom and Cuomo. Cuomo cut Medicaid funding by $6 billion during the pandemic. He dragged his feet on issuing a stay-at-home order for a week after the city government had asked for one (the governor has the sole authority to authorize one in NY). San Francisco beat Cuomo to the punch by nearly a week, even though New York had been hit earlier and harder with COVID-19 cases. Cuomo also fought against closing NYC schools even after the city and teachers were already on board with the idea. As a result of New York's sluggish response, community spread of COVID-19 happened much more rapidly than it did in other urbanized areas of the country (most notably San Francisco), so hospitals were already overloaded even before the stay-at-home order had been issued. On top of that, Cuomo also expanded pretrial detention for nonviolent drug offenders during the pandemic, which puts even more people in unnecessary close contact. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/cuomo-has-learned-nothing-from-the-catastrophe-at-rikers.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/cuomo-has-learned-no... As of today, 1 in 1000 New Yorkers who were alive a month ago are now dead. Cuomo might not be the only person responsible for the current situation in New York, but it's clear that things would be better in New York had Cuomo taken action instead of fighting public health officials at every turn.