Family of Cuomo's COVID nursing home victims blast 'disqualified' gov's quest for more power | 1 March 2025 | Family members of COVID-19 nursing home victims vowed to fight former Gov. Cuomo's mayoral candidacy "every step of the way" -- saying his handling of the pandemic "disqualified' him from mounting a political comeback. "When you fail the most vulnerable who need the most help and are counting on the leadership to be top notch, he already disqualified himself from this race," Vivian Rivera-Zayas, whose mother, Ana, died after contracting COVID-19 at a Long Island nursing home, told The Post. "We're going to continue to fight him every step of the way, hoping that he will not be elected our mayor." On March 25, 2020, the Cuomo regime issued a controversial directive forcing nursing homes take in COVID-19 patients who were discharged from hospitals, which some experts said contributed to thousands of deaths.