13 October 2021: Anti-Cuomo COVID Nursing Home Deaths Scandals Advocates Meet with Hochul

Fox News’ Janice Dean, Nursing Home Family Advocates Meet With NY Gov. to Push for ‘Full Accountability’ on Cuomo Policy

This report describes the 12 October 2021 meeting involving two of the leading advocates opposed to Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive and his administration's effort to cover-up the full extent of COVID deaths among New York nursing home residents and replacement Governor Kathy Hochul.

Fox News’ Janice Dean, New York Assembly Member Ron Kim, and more met with Governor Kathy Hochul Tuesday to call for “full accountability” on covid-19 nursing home deaths.

The report is short on details of their closed door discussion, but this report indicates Hochul offered an apology for the actions of the Cuomo administration.

While the report features several Twitter posts by both Janice Dean and Ron Kim from the past several months, the following tweet confirms this first meeting with Hochul:

For the first time since we began or quest for accountability on behalf of our families that died from Covid in nursing homes last spring, we met today with @GovKathyHochul. It was a small step but an important one to get answers. It would not have happened without @rontkim. pic.twitter.com/Su0Niwk8ow

— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) October 12, 2021

Here are profiles from the timeline for both advocates:

• 24 March 2021: A Profile of Janice Dean
• 1 June 2021: A Profile of Assemblyman Ron Kim

Follow the links for Janice Dean and Ron Kim to see where and how often the two appear within events covered by the timeline, which represents only a fraction of their advocacy on behalf of the families of the Cuomo administration's COVID nursing home victims.

The meeting also included Alexa Rivera as a representative of the Voices for Seniors advocacy group. She is the co-founder of the group with her sister, Vivian Rivera-Zayas, whose name has come up more frequently as a spokesperson for the group. This timeline entry describes how they became advocates. Their organization's Twitter post about the meeting has more information about what was on the agenda for discussion:

After 19 months of making noise God opened an opportunity for us.

Our Co-Founder Alexa Rivera & Director @chichi31859 represented all of us today.We are told there were many tears. @GovKathyHochul got to see that this is still a raw and relevant issue to us.

Thank you @rontkim pic.twitter.com/k3ewgIJgGE

— VoicesForSeniors (@Voices4Seniors) October 12, 2021

A forensic audit to fully tally the number of nursing home residents who subsequently died from COVID-19 in nursing homes, or at hospitals or other facilities, or at home after being infected during the period the Cuomo administsration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect would be a welcome development after the Cuomo administration's legacy of cover-ups. The administration's cover-up of the full extent of COVID deaths among New York's nursing home residents dates back to early April 2020, so any action on moving forward with such an audit has been a very long time in coming.