- Nursing home residents areamong the most vulnerable

when it comes to the Coronavirus,

with more than 68 deaths nationwide.

But the numbers may be much higher.

That's because New Yorkis not counting deaths

from nursing homes, ifthe patient is transported

to a hospital and dies there.

Despite criticism for that, NewYork Governor, Andrew Cuomo,

says New York has only 20% of COVID deaths

from nursing homes, comparedto 68% in Pennsylvania,

64% in Massachusetts,and 44% in New Jersey.

Fox News' Janice Dean iscritical of the state's

overall handling of thecrisis with the elderly

and nursing homes.

She spoke with our Charlene Aaron

about her family's heartbreaking story.

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- It was months and months andmonths of agonizing decisions

on what to do with our agingparents, my husband's parents.

They were getting to the pointwhere they couldn't take care

of themselves, they couldn'ttake care of each other.

They were living in a four-story walkup.

His mom couldn't walk.

His dad had dementia.

So this was a decision thatwas very tough to begin with.

We finally found anassisted living residence

that was going to take both of them,

despite Mickey, myfather-in-law's dementia

and his health issues.

But it was close to our house.

But what we had to dowas make sure that Mickey

was in better shape.

So he was in a nursing home for rehab

and his mom was in theassisted living residence

in a double room, waiting for Mickey.

And then Coronavirushappened, like literally,

just a couple of monthswhen we made these decisions

and made the move for them.

We hadn't even cleaned outtheir apartment in Brooklyn.

So Coronavirus happens.

We're not allowed to see them.

We didn't know his dad was ill at all.

We were getting updatesfrom the nursing home,

regular updates.

And one Saturday morning,we get an update,

the end of March, saying,"Your dad's not feeling well."

And three hours later they call us back

and tell us he's died!

His mom was in theassisted living residence.

She was in better shapementally, you know,

she could tell us what was going on in her

assisted living facility.

She was worried that peoplewere coming in and out

and they didn't have masks

and they weren't washing their hands.

And so we were gettingconcerned about that.

My sister-in-law wascalling every day saying,

"Listen, you know, you gottaget your act together."

"This is not acceptable."

And several days later she got ill

and she had to be brought to the hospital

and they diagnosed her with Coronavirus.

And she just, you know,died a few days later.

So separate facilities.

And because of New York'sbizarre way of counting deaths,

they don't count the deathsthat happened in the hospital,

even though my mother-in-lawgot the Coronavirus

in her assisted living residence.

And to me, that's asign that they're trying

to hide the numbers.

- What's your response tothe fact that they're not,

you know, releasing,they're not disclosing

how many nursing home residents have died.

- Well, that's why I'm speaking out.

You know, I would'venever done this normally.

My husband can't even bear towatch any of the interviews

that I do or any of the, you know,

written pieces that I've written.

It's too hard for him.

But the reason he's letting me speak out

is because we weren'tseeing any coverage of this.

These interviews don't get any easier,

but if it makes one familyfeel like they're not alone

in their grieving, then it's worthwhile.

- You want to see a fullbipartisan investigation

into this issue.

What do you hope?

What's your hope that that will happen?

What do you hope comes out of it?

- Listen, the fact thathe doesn't want one

and says there doesn't need to be,

the investigation theyconducted here in New York

was by the CuomoAdministration into themselves.

And they found no wrongdoing at all!

And they also said that itwasn't the Coronavirus patients,

6,000 of them, that theyput into the nursing homes.

"No, that had no effect at all."

It was the nursing care workers

and the visitors, apparently.

And I'm telling you rightnow, we were not allowed

to visit my in-laws during thepandemic, so I don't know--

- That was very well known.

Everyone knew that youcouldn't visit people

in nursing homes.

- Right, so that was hisinvestigation into himself.

So why would he needanother investigation?

My argument is, if youhave nothing to hide,

then why wouldn't you welcomeany and all investigations,

especially one that's bipartisan?

This has nothing to do with Fox News

or being Republican or Democrat.

I mean, all these families,

the families that I saw testifying,

I don't know who they voted for.

It shouldn't matter!

So that's why I would like,I'd like a federal hearing.

I would like a 911-stylecommission hearing,

because it's not only in New York.

There are several other statesthat did the same thing,

putting Coronaviruspatients into nursing homes.

So, you know, listen, that's my hope.

I don't know if that'll ever happen,

but my argument is, Governor Cuomo,

what do you have to hide?