Current Events > Sen. Rand Paul: Cuomo Ought to Be Impeached Over Coronavirus Response

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https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/sen-rand-paul-cuomo-ought-to-be-impeached-over-coronavirus-response/2528609/

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) on Thursday called for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be impeached over his handling of the surge of coronavirus cases in and around New York City earlier this year. In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, Paul said that the rest of the country shouldn't model its COVID-19 response after the Empire State, specifically calling out the Democratic governor's decision to send recovering patients back into nursing homes in March and April and the state's death rate. "I don't think there is a lot in New York that we can look to and say oh, thats what we should model after," he said. "In fact, I really think Governor Cuomo ought to be impeached for the worst public policy, public health decision maybe in a century, sending patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes."

Earlier this month, state officials said 6,300 recovering patients were sent back into their nursing homes in March and April. Cuomo reversed the policy in May, but he and state health officials contended that it was infected nursing home staffers, not released patients, that caused the virus to spread through the facilities. Paul, however, didn't buy the assertion - saying that the policy made things "hugely worse." "Almost half the people who died in New Jersey and New York died because of that public policy decision and died in nursing homes," he said. The Republican -- an opthamologist before his political career -- also took aim at New York's lockdown and reopening policies, saying it was "herd immunity," and not the things Cuomo is "going to do through Big Brother to make us safe again," that were keeping the state's cases, hospitalizations and deaths down. "I think the one story people are missing is, amidst this resurgence or surge in the disease, New York has very few deaths and very few new cases," Paul said. "It has nothing to do with the lockdown. I believe that it has a great deal to do with the level of immunity they have achieved."



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Rand Paul should be impeached for holding up an anti-lynching Bill

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Feckless bootlicker who masquerades as a principled libertarian

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Can we impeach Trump (again) as well then? He fucked up far worse than Cuomo

Sooo....Cuomo did a bad job but Trump didn't? How do you even come to that conclusion?

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always tickled to see a dumbass like rand paul try to talk science.

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If every state handled the pandemic as well as New York we'd be in a much better spot. Imagine if the entire country had a death rate comparable to New York's!

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Well impeach Cuomo whenever Republicans want to start playing by the same rules regarding Trump.
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