Janice Dean’s sister-in-legislation blasts Gov. Cuomo: ‘You don’t go to a nursing home and die’

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean’s sister-in-regulation Donna Johnson, who lost her moms and dads to COVID-19 soon after they have been exposed in New York assisted living facilities, stressed on Tuesday that individuals do not go to nursing homes to die.

“Our governor gets on Tv set and says such ridiculous items,” Johnson told “Fox & Pals” on Tuesday. “I assume the newest thing that has me so saddened is when he talks about nursing dwelling individuals, he acts like you go to a nursing home and you die, big deal.”

 “You don’t go to a nursing home and die. It is people’s houses,” she stressed, noting that some of the assisted living facilities are rehabilitation facilities and people of all ages are there.

Last thirty day period, the Washington Put up claimed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, “Seem, regardless of whether a particular person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it is — the men and women died.”

“People today died. ‘I was in a medical center, I got transferred to a nursing dwelling, and my father died.’ ‘My father was in a nursing home, bought transferred to a clinic, my father died.’ Folks died,” he reportedly ongoing.

“But who cares? 33 [percent]. 28 [percent]. Died in a healthcare facility. Died in a nursing dwelling,” Cuomo included, according to the Post. “They died.”

Johnson told host Brian Kilmeade that about one particular yr ago, her father’s New York nursing house rehabilitation facility was in lockdown owing to the coronavirus pandemic. She noted that her mother was in a different assisted dwelling facility nearby and the system was for her father “to get a small more healthy and go join my mother in the assisted residing.”

Johnson explained just one afternoon her brother received a contact that her father wasn’t feeling perfectly.

“I never imagine the phone led us to feel he was in grave danger and it was only just a few hours later on that he received the following simply call that my father had passed absent,” she said.

“Possessing COVID did not even cross our minds and we learned that my dad had COVID when the funeral director been given the death certification.”

Johnson also noted that shortly thereafter, her mother started off not to come to feel very well and about a week afterwards was transported to the medical center where she examined favourable for COVID-19 and “progressively got worse.” Johnson reported her mom died in the healthcare facility.  

“The past phrases my mother said to me was, ‘Donna I am scared,’” Johnson explained.

“I’d like to inquire Governor Cuomo how would he truly feel if he experienced to live each and every day with the last words from his mother, ‘Andrew, I’m scared.’”

A Cuomo spokesperson did not straight away react to Fox News’ ask for for remark.

On Monday, Cuomo declined to say no matter if he or any associates of his office environment experienced been subpoenaed in connection with ongoing investigations into how the administration dealt with nursing home care during the pandemic.  

When questioned in the course of a meeting connect with about any probable subpoenas, Cuomo explained his business office has been complying with an inquiry since August and will keep on to do so. He did not, however, talk right to the subpoena query.

Cuomo’s place of work has occur under mounting scrutiny in excess of how it taken care of nursing property client treatment and how it reported client deaths, which includes deliberately underreporting fatalities for worry that revealing the info could have been made use of versus the administration, as proposed by an aide.

A report produced by New York Legal professional General Letitia James at the conclude of last thirty day period disclosed whole nursing residence fatalities in the condition were being better than formerly predicted – undercounted by as considerably as 55%.

The Department of Wellbeing exposed soon following James’ report was introduced that an extra 3,829 citizens died soon after becoming transferred to hospitals, which is about 40% additional deaths than experienced earlier been counted. At least 12,743 lengthy-time period care residents died of the virus as of Jan. 19.

New knowledge launched this thirty day period upped those people figures to at least 14,100.

Republicans in the state legislature on Monday moved ahead with an energy to strip Cuomo of his unexpected emergency authority during the pandemic. State Democrats superior an effort to formally censure Cuomo, which would provide as a public rebuke of his steps.

Johnson pointed out on Tuesday that she has various inquiries for the governor.

“I would like to know why he did not use the applications that President Trump gave him,” Johnson said. “He requested for the ship. He experienced the ship. It laid there vacant. He experienced the Javits Centre, it laid there vacant.”

She also pointed out that where by she is on Very long Island, makeshift hospitals were being positioned in parking lots.

“Why didn’t you use these amenities? I would just like to know why? What made you indicator this mandate to ship COVID infected patients to facilities that ended up not equipped?” she went on to question.

Johnson also pointed out that she would move by the rehabilitation center her father was dwelling in on Very long Island each day during the lockdown to drop off the newspaper and she would see employees “sporting garbage luggage,” noting they have been not equipped to take care of the pandemic.

“What form of PPE [personal protective equipment] is that?” Johnson requested.

A Cuomo spokesperson also did not straight away react to Fox News’ request for answers to Johnson’s concerns.

Johnson reported on Tuesday that she is “proud” of her sister-in-law Janice Dean for currently being a voice for families who have dropped family customers living in nursing houses and assisted living amenities.

“I am so certain my parents are so proud of her,” Johnson told Kilmeade. “My moms and dads were not the type of people that would want their face to be on Television and they would not want the attention, but on the other hand to that, my father usually taught us to always adhere up for oneself and to stick up for people today who can’t stick up for themselves.”

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“I know how proud my parents are on the lookout down smiling on her,” she additional. “We are forever grateful.”

Fox News’ Brittany De Lea contributed to this report.