It wasn't FoxNews hot garbage. It was reported back then. FoxNews' Janice Dean lost both her in-laws in New York. She writes about the details here.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...amp/5472713002
Your friends were right, they lived it. Meanwhile the Cuomo Brothers were yucking it up. Gov. Cuomo even got an Emmy for his press conferences. And it just wasn't the nursing homes, it was the abuse of power and the lockdowns too.