Cuomo & his McKinsey consultants have decided to combine households & small gatherings into a single category for reporting covid transmission sites. This is misleading and helps shift blame from his inaction to irresponsible individuals /1 https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1334188248017625090

Here, 74% are reported as coming from 'households/social gatherings'. But we know from Massachusetts data that for every case traced to a gathering, 200 are traced to households! /2 https://twitter.com/dantelvock/status/1337440699361398785?s=21

It's also easy to watch the PSA above and figure that by households they mean visiting your friend's household. But that's a gathering. Household transmission is among people living in the same place, and not as amenable to public health interventions. /3

Cuomo has been reluctant to shut nonessential businesses (the thing within his control that has been proven to work) so is instead shifting the blame to individuals, most notably in this statement /4 https://twitter.com/News_8/status/1329135843093733378