I have to disagree with the pass you're giving Cuomo (and I suppose others who did the same thing?) due to the lack of knowledge at the beginning. At a minimum, we knew if was an infectious disease, meaning transmissible from human to human, and we had a pretty good idea which groups of people were at the most risk. So to put people who had been confirmed to have the virus in with people he had to know were at greater risk, is beyond criminal negligence, imo.
When I heard him try to blame the nursing home operators, he tried claiming two things. First, that as with a hospital, a nursing home should be able to isolate people with an infectious disease from those without it. That's utterly preposterous, as anyone who has worked in, operated, owned, or even visited one of these facilities could tell you.
Then he tried saying all the owners or operators had to do, if they couldn't isolate the infected from the non-infected, was to reject receiving the infected. That's about as weak of an excuse as I can imagine. People in that industry are very regulation oriented, and if told by the governor to do something, they would ordinarily carry it out.
The only thing I can say is that if I had been operating a nursing home and per his orders, an infected person was supposed to be cared for in my facility, I would not consider the situation to be normal, and would have done everything in my power to not accept the infected person. They could send me to jail over that if they want, but no way in hell would I let that happen on my watch.