NURSING HOME SCANDAL AUTUMN 2022--IN THE NEWS

I believed Hochul, but her probe of COVID nursing-home deaths in New York is ‘damn’ late

One year ago, Gov. Hochul met with grieving families who lost loved ones in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was with my husband, Sean, whose parents, Mickey and Dee, were two of more than 15,000 seniors who died from contracting the virus in their long-term-care facilities. I remember feeling optimistic that if she heard our stories and saw our grief first hand, she would help us find answers. The day of the meeting she listened to us, offered her condolences and promised to be fully transparent, helping us get to the bottom of what happened in spring 2020. She apologized to us and told reporters after our meeting that she “gives a damn.”

At the time, I believed her.

But now, more than 2 1/2 years later, we still don’t know why then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Department of Health ordered more than 9,000 COVID-positive patients into their residences without alerting our families.  MORE AT Hochul's probe of COVID nursing-home deaths in New York is 'damn' late (nypost.com)