Andrew Cuomo: “New York had the highest infection rate on the globe.”

“Covid was during the presidential election, don't forget. So he's running for president. You're in the middle of COVID So the politics, the stakes were very high. New York had the highest infection rate on the globe. We were the first place in the country to have Covid. So we were working everything out for the first time, what was the federal responsibility, what was the state responsibility?” (23:14–23:18)

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