The statement made by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor and Cuomo's top aide, at 0:25 into the following video is highly deceptive.

DeRosa claimed, CDC guidance says, "Nursing homes should admit any individuals from hospitals where COVID is present. Not could. Should ..."

Again, the above is misleading. Here is the CDC guidance:

The CDC guidance includes the following quote, "Nursing homes should admit any individuals that they would normally admit to their facility, including individuals from hospitals where a case of COVID-19 was/is present."

Given that nursing homes would not normally admit actively infected COVID-19 patients, whether or not they are from a hospital where COVID-19 is present, it is misleading to insinuate that the CDC directed nursing homes to accept COVID-19 infected patients into their general populations.

The following are important points of refutations concerning DeRosa’s claim:

1) The CDC guidance is a guidance, not a directive. The CDC guidance does not order nursing homes to shape and implement their policies in a particular way. It just makes recommendations.

2) The CDC guidance stipulates quarantining protocols for the handling of patients infected with COVID-19, which New York's own directives to nursing homes did not stipulate, or allude to.

3) New York's own directives to nursing homes, had no regard for whether nursing homes could implement quarantining procedures, and the state ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-19 infected patients, irrespective of their capacity to quarantine them. New York did this, over the pleas of many nursing homes, that they cannot adequately manage the acceptance of COVID-19 infected patients, into their facilities.

It is interesting that rather than coming clean, Andrew Cuomo deceived the public into looking away from his deadly policies, which left thousands of his most vulnerable constituents dead. The above does not speak well about Governor Cuomo's honesty and character.