4 May 2021: Backlash to Cuomo's Talk of "Killing Grandmothers"

Cuomo warns unvaccinated people could kill grandmas

We missed this story when it came out on Monday, 3 May 2021, but it contains a reaction to Governor Cuomo's hypocritical and tone-deaf statement about killing grandmothers made at his encounter with the press:

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean weighed in on Cuomo’s comments in a statement on Monday, saying the governor has "some nerve" going after unvaccinated people visiting their elderly relatives amid his nursing home scandal.

"He has some nerve shaming others for possibly endangering their grandparents," Dean said. "Over 15,000 elderly are no longer with us thanks in part to his deadly policy to re-admit infected patients into nursing homes. If anyone knows how to kill a grandma, it’s Andrew Cuomo."

Dean became an outspoken critic of the governor's nursing home policies after both of her parents-in-law died of coronavirus in New York nursing homes.

The Cuomo administration imposed a directive on 25 March 2020 forcing New York nursing homes to blindly admit COVID patients discharged from hospitals to free up their bed space. A nonpartisan watchdog group has estimated the policy cost the lives of at least 1,000 elderly nursing home residents from COVID-19, above and beyond the number who would have died without the Cuomo administration's enforcement of the policy. This deadly policy was enforced until rescinded on 10 May 2020. The Cuomo administration's admitted cover-up of the full extent of COVID deaths among elderly New York nursing home residents began in April 2020.