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Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s campaign to lead the Big Apple has reopened old wounds from the COVID-19 pandemic, leading him to explain key aspects behind his handling of the virus at the height of the crisis.

"New York City had COVID first and worst, so we were literally the laboratory for the country, if not the world on what was going to happen with COVID, and nobody knew," he told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.

The former Democratic leader, now vying for the city's top position with an independent bid , said that COVID was uncharted terrain at the time, and that decisions — particularly regarding the meager use of the USNS Comfort hospital ship sent into New York Harbor at President Trump's request —

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