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New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo has recently been accused of sexual harassment by two former colleagues, both women much younger and less powerful than the Democratic politico. These allegations have generated a public firestorm – one that was curiously absent around Cuomo’s disastrous mishandling of the pandemic in New York, most consequentially in his policies vis a vis COVID and nursing homes and his subsequent attempts to do what appears to be political damage control (including an alleged threat to state assemblyman Ron Kim) around them. We spoke  with Joel Zinberg, associate professor of surgery at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, senior economist and general counsel at the White House Council of Economic Advisors from 2017 to 2019, and a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute – to discuss the governor, the coronavirus, and what went wrong.