Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) will testify in a Sept. 10 hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, panel Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) announced Tuesday.
The hearing is set to focus on the guidance Cuomo issued in the early days of the pandemic that led to New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities admitting patients who had tested positive for COVID-19.
“Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. On September 10, Americans will have the opportunity to hear directly from the former governor about New York’s potentially fatal nursing home policies,” Wenstrup said in a statement.
Cuomo appeared for closed-door testimony before the panel earlier this year after receiving a subpoena.
Wenstrup charged that in that interview, Cuomo was “shockingly callous when pressed to explain discrepancies in nursing home death counts, repeatedly deflected responsibility for the nursing home directive, and most egregiously, showed little remorse for the thousands of lives lost.”
Cuomo’s appearance in the Sept. 10 hearing is voluntary.
