re: More brilliance from Froma Harrop

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We saw him aggressively arranging for new hospital beds and ventilators to prepare for worst-case scenarios.

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We also saw him take ventilators from areas of New York that were better prepared while whining about Trump not giving him enough ventilators with thousands sitting in a warehouse.

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They were not needed because the tough lockdown imposed on New Yorkers stopped the pandemic’s advance.

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Except for the subways. And how you can say he stopped the pandemic's advance in the city with the highest number of infections and deaths in the country is beyond me.

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Under Cuomo’s leadership, the curve of sickness and death turned way down to the levels of March.

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That's how pandemics work. They rise and then fall. Doing nothing would have produced the same curve.