“Trump is to blame for the virus coming to New York, because that's the fact. That's what the CDC just said. If Trump's government had done its job, the virus wouldn't come here.”
What FactCheck.org found
Cuomo pointed to a study that suggested government officials could have better mitigated the spread of the coronavirus in New York City, but it didn’t say they could have stopped it.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Andrew Cuomo (New York Governor) made this claim around 16 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 July 2020, 8 days later. Its rating was “CDC Didn't Say That”.
Andrew Cuomo has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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