Janice Dean goes after NBC’s Lester Holt for protecting Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Senior meteorologist for Fox News, Janice Dean, went after NBC anchor Lester Holt Saturday, for censoring a buddy of hers with the intention to defend New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo confronted backlash this week after an investigation by state Attorney General Letitia James discovered that deaths amongst aged in nursing properties from the coronavirus pandemic, have been far worse than the figures disclosed by New York officers.
“So [NBC News’ Lester Holt] censored one of my friends who lost a loved one in a nursing home,” Dean, tweeted Saturday. “She wanted to say ‘[Andrew Cuomo] failed us’ in the interview and they told her to say ‘New York failed us’ instead. The mainstream is still protecting this guy. Disgusting.”
Dean then referred to as Holt and Cuomo a “disgrace,” and stated, “The governor, his administration and his health department failed us.”
Holt has not publicly responded to Dean.
Fox News additionally reached out to NBC News for a remark.
Dean, who misplaced each of her in-laws to the virus in New York nursing properties, has been vital of Cuomo and his coronavirus response, even previous to this week’s report.
The New York governor has been underneath elevated scrutiny after the report discovered after surveying greater than 60 nursing properties, that official reviews “undercounted by as much as 50%” the variety of seniors who died after contracting the illness in a nursing house.
The legal professional common’s workplace continues to be investigating the discrepancies.
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But state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker issued a press release Thursday, that some believed tried to excuse the various figures.
Zucker stated that the state reported fatalities by the placement the place the dying occurred, which means if a person died in a hospital after first contracting the illness within the nursing house, they weren’t counted as nursing house deaths.
“DOH [Department of Health] does not disagree that the number of people transferred from a nursing home to a hospital is an important data point, and is in the midst of auditing this data from nursing homes,” Zucker stated.
Cuomo didn’t assist his case when some, like Dean, took offense to his response to the report, saying “But who cares…died in a hospital, died in a nursing home, they died.”
The New York governor then spoke about coping with the lack of his father this yr.
“The pain is so incredible and inexplicable,” he stated. “It’s tragedy.”
But Cuomo’s try and sympathize with individuals mourning the lack of family members who died from the virus in or exterior of nursing properties, additionally didn’t go over properly as his father didn’t die from the virus, passing away in 2015.
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“His father didn’t die in a nursing home thanks to his son ordering Covid positive patients into their facility,” Dean added angrily on twitter.
