Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration is planning to allow indoor visitations for families in nursing homes, if infection rates in the county remain below 5%, without a testing requirement.
But despite a relatively mild press conference on the topic on Monday afternoon, Cuomo is still facing backlash from Albany lawmakers looking to snatch back emergency powers collected by the governor as part of the state of emergency imposed in March 2020.
Earlier in the day, eleven state Democratic Committee members submitted a resolution to censure the governor for conduct they deem as unbecoming of the office. This included the nursing home deaths found by Attorney General Letitia James to underreported by 50%, failure to share information about this with the state legislature and threatening behavior toward Assemblyman Ron Kim.
