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Andrew Cuomo: “We had opened up and was set up with an emergency facility…”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Cuomo explains COVID-era decisions that sparked backlash

Published | Video Starts at 06:33

And that took a period of time. By the time the ship was operational, the curve had turned. The hospitals were not under the same stress, and We had opened up and was set up with an emergency facility of 1200 beds at the Javits Convention Center. We turned that into a very large emergency shelter for overflow of hospitals. So we never needed the ship. In fact, we never even filled Javits. (06:33–06:43)

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