New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that President Trump caused the destruction of a pandemic in New York by not blocking from Europe earlier.
“Donald Trump, the COVID epidemic in New York. Es a fact,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo added that the viral strain that struck New York, the first epicenter of the virus in the United States, came from Europe with millions of inhabitants to New York long before Trump’s March ban.
“It’s not the Chinese virus. It’s the European virus that came to New York,” Cuomo said. “And then 3 million Europeans got on the plane and got here to New York, and brought the virus. In January, they brought the virus, February brought the virus, in March they brought the virus.
Trump promorated the benefits of his first European ban on March 11, continually claiming that his resolution had stored millions of people in the United States just six days after pronouncing the ban, Trump said he planned the pandemic “long before it happened. “called the pandemic,” however, continued to guarantee the public that it would die on its own.
Cuomo said Tuesday that the ban “is too little, too late. “
The coronavirus strain that hit the East Coast in March and April came here from “mainly European and American sources,” according to a July through Icahn Medical School in Mount Sinai that traced the source of the outbreak in New York.
“These effects show that [COVID-19] came to New York rule basically across Europe through insurmountable transmissions,” said Dr Vithruna Simon, one of the report’s authors. “The study also suggests that the virus is likely to circulate from the beginning. 2020 in the New York domain”.
The virus has inflamed more than 440,000 people in New York City and killed at least 33,000 others since the outbreak peaked in the spring. Since then, the state has controlled the virus. The positivity rate in COVID-19 state is less than 1%, compared to approximately 45% in early April.