When Covid Hit Nursing Homes, Part 1: ‘My Mother Died Alone’

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When New York was the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, Gov. Andrew Cuomo emerged as a singular, strong leader. Now his leadership is embattled, particularly over the extent of deaths in nursing homes during the peak. Today, in the first of two parts on what went wrong in New York's nursing homes, we look at the crisis through the eyes of a woman, Lorry Sullivan, who lost her mother in a New York nursing home.

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0:25.6	Maybe we could just start out, Laurie, and you tell me a little bit about your mom.
0:34.9	Can you describe her a little bit?
0:36.9	She was a loving mother, she was five kids.
0:42.7	She didn't work.
0:43.7	She was always at home, taking bread and making stews.
0:49.1	I have 52 first cousins.
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0:53.5	52 first cousins.
0:55.5	Oh my gosh.
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1:00.2	But yeah, 52 first cousins.
1:02.1	And then everybody got married.
1:03.8	Then there was 104 and then there was everybody had kids.
1:07.9	When everybody would come over, she would never get blessed.
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