Exactly three years ago this week, then-state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker testified before the Legislature, delivering a full-throated defense of the Cuomo-Hochul administration’s nursing-home policy.

From a deadly March 25, 2020, nursing-home order, to the elaborate efforts to cover up its fatal consequences, the moment demanded truth, transparency and accountability.

Zucker was the wrong man for the job and failed miserably to deliver.

Meanwhile, with COVID tests in high demand and not readily available, friends and family of the Cuomo-Hochul administration were getting incredible VIP access that misallocated resources and abused power.