Reports Claim Cuomo Gave His Family Special Coronavirus Testing During Early Days of the Pandemic
When New York was hit hard in the early days of the pandemic last March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration gave his family members preferential access to coronavirus testing, according to several news reports.
The allegations were first reported in Albany, N.Y.’s Times Union, and later in The Washington Post and The New York Times. The reports, which NPR has not independently confirmed, cited unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter.
Sources told the Times Union that members of Cuomo’s family “including his brother, his mother and at least one of his sisters were also tested by top health department officials — some several times.”
At the time, coronavirus testing was hard to come by, and New Yorkers and others were often instructed to stay home and isolate or quarantine if they thought they had the virus or had been exposed, rather than seek testing.
