State legislators from both sides of the political aisle are holding an event Wednesday morning at the Capitol to call for passage of legislation for an independent, bi-partisan state commission to fully investigate the deaths of thousands of New Yorkers who died from COVID-19 in state-regulated nursing homes.
Senator Jim Tedisco and downstate Democratic assemblyman Ron Kim are leading the effort. They will be joined today by Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost both of her in-laws who were residents of state-regulated elder care facilities to the coronavirus.
More than 6,000 New York nursing home deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, but some estimates have that total at more than double that amount.