Andrew Cuomo: “It got into the nursing homes by the staff.”

“80,000 people die here, 1.2 million in the country, and it was the nursing homes, because Covid preyed on the immune, compromised the elderly. So it went through nursing homes and It got into the nursing homes by the staff. Yeah, because the staff would go home at night, go home for the weekend. They catch it, staff brings it in. And it was just a constant cycle, you know, how do you stop it?” (1:10:30–1:10:33)

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