New York Post

Doctor’s house calls to Cuo bro

- Jesse O’Neill

A top state physician who was tasked with solving COVID-testing issues at New York nursing homes made several hours-long visits to CNN host Chris Cuomo’s Hamptons house to check him for the virus, according to a report.

Around the same time, Kenneth Cole — the fashion designer who is married to Gov. Cuomo’s sister — received preferenti­al coronaviru­s testing at a state-run facility.

Those stories were among a number of new details reported by The Washington Post Monday night about the VIP treatment for coronaviru­s testing overseen by the governor.

Seven people with firsthand knowledge of the alleged favoritism — who spoke anonymousl­y out of fear of retributio­n from Gov. Cuomo — acted as sources for the report.

In March 2020, testing cases were fast-tracked at state facilities for people described as “priorities,” “specials,” “inner circle” or “criticals,” multiple sources told the newspaper.

At one of the state’s first pandemic operations hubs, more than 100 of the cases were kept in a database separate from the general public’s, according to the report.

A leading state doctor — Westcheste­r County-based Department of Health physician Eleanor Adams — was dispatched several times to Southampto­n to test Chris Cuomo, who contracted the virus about a year ago, according to the sources.

Cole, the husband of the governor’s sister Maria, was one person who benefited from priority testing, the report said.

In other instances, medical staffers were reportedly sent from a coronaviru­s operations hub in New Rochelle to test people in Gov. Cuomo’s orbit at private homes and hotel rooms.

A Cuomo spokespers­on denied that there was any “VIP” testing scheme.

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