Mount Clemens Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido called Thursday for the county medical examiner s office to create a committee for reviewing nursing home deaths related to COVID-19 and announced an online form for families to file with law enforcement to investigate fatalities.
Lucido said the medical examiner s office already has a team to review child fatalities and that his office has received requests via phone, email and in person from hundreds of people who wanted deaths of family members investigated.
The new prosecutor also said two formal complaints were filed with police this week, one in Shelby Township and one in Warren; the Warren complaint concerns the April 2020 death of a woman who had been transferred from a nursing home to a hospital.
Republicans seize on nursing-home deaths to weaken Democrats
David Welch and Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg
March 2, 2021
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Republicans are weaponizing covid-19 s nursing home deaths.
In recent months, GOP lawmakers have heaped criticism on Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gavin Newsom of California for early missteps in handling the pandemic. Michigan Republicans, hostile to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer throughout the crisis, are now asking the state s attorney general to investigate how the Democrat coped with that challenge.
Republicans say people died unnecessarily because of Whitmer s order that nursing homes readmit residents who had the coronavirus if the facilities had capacity and quarantine capabilities. Michigan s fatality rate was lower than the national average, and many of those on the pandemic s front line dispute the assertions.
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57% of Michigan nursing home staff, residents decline COVID-19 vaccine so far
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Jacqueline Muscat, a second-year pharmacy student at the University of Michigan and intern for Walgreens, administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Eden Winter at Samaritas Affordable Living at Sequoia Place, 1131 N. Maple Rd. In Ann Arbor on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News
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Driven by “vaccine hesitancy” among workers, more than half the staff and residents in Michigan’s skilled nursing homes have declined to be vaccinated against COVID-19 so far, according to data collected by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.