Dufort, 44, approached him, covered in protective equipment. Dufort uncomfortable, she told investigators. The moment was meant to encourage New Yorkers to get tested, but the encounter with the governor left Dr. Cuomo’s nose in a televised demonstration of a Covid-19 test. Elizabeth Dufort, the former medical director of the state Health Department’s division of epidemiology.ĭuring one of the governor’s daily briefings in May 2020, Dr. Though her name is redacted in the transcripts, the details she describes make clear she is Dr. Her testimony was part of a trove of evidence from the investigation that was released earlier this month. Cuomo, 63, had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women.
These are among the new details that emerged from the testimony of the official, who was interviewed over Zoom in May as part of an attorney general’s investigation that found that Mr. The governor’s office blocked state Health Department employees from coordinating with their counterparts in New York City and other local health departments, the official said. One edict from that office made it more difficult for the Health Department to initially track a dangerous syndrome associated with Covid-19 that has appeared in hundreds of children across the state, according to the new testimony. Now his reputation as an effective governor during a public health emergency is coming under further scrutiny, as recently released testimony from a former high-ranking state health official accuses the governor’s office of repeatedly stymieing and undermining the state’s public health experts in the first year of the pandemic. His deal to write a book about his leadership during the pandemic is being investigated by a state ethics panel, and he could be forced to forfeit millions he made from the book. Cuomo resigned in August amid a sexual harassment scandal, he was lauded as a hero of the pandemic, whose daily Covid-19 briefings left viewers feeling less isolated during New York’s devastating first wave.īut his pandemic leadership has since come under reappraisal, in large part because of the high death toll among nursing home residents and a slow-burning scandal over whether Mr. The 1959 album released from this session was called My Thanks To You, and included only the original version of the lyrics the recording with the later version of the lyrics was not released until 1993.Long before Gov. In 1959, Francis recorded both versions of the lyrics, with the same orchestral arrangement.
It is usually performed in a later version with different words by the American songwriter Buddy Kaye to Reid's original music. " I'll Close My Eyes" is a song with words and music by the English songwriter and bandleader Billy Reid which was first published in 1945.