Cuomo’s explanations don’t comfort New York families who lost loved ones in nursing homes to Covid-19
As Ted Minissale watched New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speak for the first time Monday about the heightening controversy around nursing home Covid-19 deaths and claims of a cover-up, all he could think about was his mother.
“Every day you think of her and you miss so much, it’s just terrible,” he told CNN at his home in Albany.
Agnes Minissale died in April after contracting Covid-19 at her nursing home, Minissale said. She would have been 94 years old on Valentine’s Day. Minissale’s father-in-law, Edward Bridgeford, was in the same nursing home and died from the virus two weeks later, he said. Both became sick at the nursing home and later died in the hospital.
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Daniel and Peter Arbeeny, whose father Norman died with the virus in May last year, said Governor Andrew Cuomo has been lying about the care home Covid-19 scandal.
New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to "stop playing politics" and "admit a mistake" in ordering nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients, two Brooklyn brothers who lost their father in the pandemic told "America Reports" Friday.