Janice Dean reports on the weather for Fox News. He lost his two in-laws to Wuhan coronavirus. Both contracted the disease in long-term care facilities, but she died in hospital.
New York doesn’t come with cases like the mother-in-law in total nursing home deaths.For example, New York underestimates the number of deaths in those facilities.
Dean has long sought to testify about New York State’s disastrous reaction to coronavirus in nursing homes. However, he got rid of the witness list for a hearing in Parliament on this matter.
Dean says a Republican senator from New York told him that the Democratic majority “doesn’t feel comfortable having her as a witness.” Dean believes that most respond to the tension of Governor Cuomo or his associates. Cuomo’s workplace denies the charge.
Republicans responded by inviting Dean to his own event. He asked for an independent investigation into whether nursing homes kept coronavirus patients separate, had enough staff, followed staff working at various fitness facilities, and provided staff with good enough protective equipment. There is also the fact that Cuomo’s administration required these establishments to settle for other people whose infection they knew.
Because of the way New York counts coronavirus deaths (see above), no one knows how many other people have died from the virus after contracting it at such facilities. Cuomo’s management refuses to provide such data even if requested by Republicans and Democrats in the state legislature. Clearly, Cuomo seeks to spare him a full assessment of the carnage that resulted from his policies.
Fortunately, as I mentioned here, the Trump Justice Department sent a letter to Governor Cuomo (among the governors) requesting this information. The letter asks:
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The DOJ requested this data, along with 3 other categories of data, to assess whether investigations are opened under the Federal Institutionalized Civil Rights Act (CRIPA), which protects the civil rights of others living in state-run retirement homes, among others. I hope the Justice Department succeeds where Janice Dean and New York State lawmakers on both sides were unable to extract confusing data that was made public months ago.
Cuomo’s administration’s control over the pandemic in long-term care facilities is outrageous. The same goes for his efforts to hide the consequences of awkwardness. The same goes for the efforts of the mainstream media, a success, to paint Cuomo as a hero of the pandemic.
We’ll see how resilient this story is to the Department of Justice’s request for data and its imaginable investigation under the Federal Civil Rights Act.
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