Janice Dean speaks out speaks out on New York's nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ainsley we have been telling
Ainsley. We have been telling
you about the tragedy of New
Yorks Nursing crisis hitting
home in our own family,
Janice Dean losing her mother
and father in law to Covid 19,
while in assisted care
facilities.
Brian Senate Republicans held a
forum yesterday where her voice
was heard.
My familys story is not
based on politics, as some might
have. You believe,
and apparently my appearance
here today makes some people
uncomfortable,
but I dont think its me. They
are uncomfortable with
its the cover up and the truth
that happened in New York,
nursing homes,
Steve and Janice joins us right
now to share
Janice good morning to you
im sure that was tough to do
yesterday. When you say some
people make some people
uncomfortable.
You obviously mention Governor
Cuomo.
Were you able to tell your whole
story yesterday
Janice I was.
They gave me more than the
allotted five minutes to tell
the story of Micky and Dee
Newman New York, tough, born and
bred, and how they were in
separate, elder care facilities
and lost them both to Covid 19.
I believe mic. I mic Mickey died
because there were covid
patients allowed into his
nursing home and his mom Dee
died, but her number does not
count because she died in the
hospital. I was able to tell both
of their stories and heard
beautiful heart breaking stories
from other families who got to
tell their familys tragic
history and stories about New Yorks, tragic nursing, home
Yorks, tragic nursing, home
policy from Andrew Cuomo
Ainsley. You mentioned the
cover up when you were zooming
with them.
What do you think happened?
Janice? Well, we dont know the
full numbers.
Cuomo and his health
commissioner have been asked
time and time again to give us
the actual total deaths that
happened not only in nursing
homes, but from seniors that were
transported to hospitals and
died in hospitals, even though
they got Covid 19 in their
respective elder care
facilities.
He hasnt answered the question
about his mandate March 25th
that went forty six days straight that
brought covid positive parents
into hearsing homes,
dodged. The question blamed
everybody else, except the person
who signed the mandate order.
Governor Cuomo
Brian here is Governor Cuomo
last night.
You have to suspend disbelief as
you watch
lets, watch
climb, the impossible mountain
and right now we are. On the
other side.
We saw the failure of a
government that tried to deny
the virus then tried to ignore
it and then tried to politicize
it.
The failed federal government
that watched New York get
ambushed by their negligence and
then watched New York Suffer, but
all through it learned
absolutely nothing for all the
pain and all the tears our way
worked.
Brian did it work?
No,
I think New York is a tragedy.
It is not a success story,
but his gaslighting and
arrogance knows no boundaries
and they let him speak. Last
night
we lost over thirty thousand people here
in New York state, I believe,
close to ten thousand from nursing
homes.
He has a lot of questions to
answer for
today, im heading to Albany to
meet with Senator Jim and
democratic Majority, Assemblyman
RON, Kim and together a
bipartisan investigation is
going to be asked, were going
to do that tomorrow in Albany.
I hope it happens, Steve that would be great
Steve. That would be great.
So yesterday was the hearing. Now,
really, the next step is
investigation find out what
happened.
Obviously, there was a steep
learning curve in the beginning.
Regarding coronavirus,
we didnt know exactly what was
hitting us,
but for the governor of New York
to say: okay, if you are a corona
patient and you have, we are
going to second, you back into
the nursing home that you feel
what the fatal flaw.
Absolutely.
He is not giving us the numbers.
New York state does not count
the numbers that we lost in
hospitals from nursing homes.
We need those numbers to move
forward and help change the law.
We need independent bipartisan
investigation that involves
subpoena power. So we can get the
health commissioner on the hot
seat and ask questions and get
truthful answers,
not ones where he is saying. I
will get back to you. I dont
have the answers right now,
thats what were hoping for
tomorrow.
Thank you.
Ainsley give our best to Sean.
I cant imagine losing two.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-18.