Cuomo accused Trump of the death of Americans from COVID-19

The virus entered the United States because the country's government took action too late and failed to protect its citizens. As a result, in the city of New York alone, about 23 thousand people have died from the coronavirus. This was stated by the governor of the state Andrew Cuomo, the newspaper writes. HuffPost.

US President Donald Trump too late imposed travel restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus to protect New Yorkers. This is stated in the reportreleased July 16 by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “They (the American government. - Ed.) failed and the virus made its way to New York. Americans were killed by government failure. Period, ”Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. He stressed that the government did not cope with its work and still does not cope.

Trump did not impose restrictions on the entry of Europeans into the United States until March 13, almost six weeks after the restriction on the entry of Chinese travelers was introduced. But by March 8, the spread of the coronavirus began in New York.

The virus strain in the city matched the characteristics of the coronavirus strain circulating in Europe, not China. This indicates that he came to New York from Europe or possibly from other parts of the United States. None of the New York strains were directly related to what was found in Wuhan, where the outbreak was first recorded. “By the time the restrictions were introduced for Europeans, there had already been an import and transfer of SARS-CoV-2,” the report says.

In addition, testing in New York at that time was carried out in limited quantities. Therefore, many new cases have not been recorded, the report said.

Cuomo has repeatedly insisted that the virus circulating in the city came from Europe, which was backed up by earlier research. The CDC report "definitively explains what happened in New York," he said at a news conference on Thursday, July 16.

From February 2 to March 13, Cuomo stated, more than 3900 flights arrived from Europe to the airports named after John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty.

He stressed that federal officials "still do not follow science, and the government is still not competent," therefore we are still seeing an increase in the number of diseases throughout the country.

Among other things, the governor warned that New York risks surviving a "second wave", as the virus could re-enter here from other states. He called it a "double-barreled shotgun of federal incompetence." “Do you know which virus is worse than COVID-19? He asked reporters. - Virus of the American division and federal incompetence. It is a virus that is wreaking havoc in our country. "

The US president, in turn, repeatedly accused China of not stopping the spread of the virus within its borders. And when the virus later entered the territory of America, the Trump administration could not cope with the situation, although at that time only a few cases of COVID-19 were known.

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Trump has also repeatedly boasted that he saved millions of lives by imposing travel restrictions. However, these restrictions applied only to foreign nationals. Whereas US citizens were free to fly back and forth to China and Europe.

Now, ironically, Americans are not allowed into Europe due to a surge in coronavirus cases in the United States. The European Union extended the ban for another two weeks on Thursday, July 16.

British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson believes that "many hundreds of thousands of lives" in the United States were saved by state leaders who issued orders to stay at home, social isolation and quarantines.

The CDC study looked at data collected by the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from March 1 to 20, during the early days of the US pandemic. At the end of Thursday, July 16, in the United States more than 3 million 570 thousand confirmed cases of coronavirus were registered, and the death toll exceeded 138 thousand people.