A day after Kathy Hochul made history by becoming New York's first female Governor while pledging "open, ethical government that New Yorkers will trust," she found herself in a more-traditional woman's role: cleaning up a mess left behind by a man.
At her direction, the state Department of Health issued revised numbers showing that 55,395 New Yorkers had died of the coronavirus as of Aug. 24—nearly 12,000 more than had been listed by Andrew Cuomo at the time he resigned shortly after midnight that day.
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