On Tuesday, the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation sued the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) after the department refused to release data related to COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes.
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Michigan’s health department is being sued over its refusal to release information on nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.
The lawsuit was filed by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation on Tuesday on behalf of a Detroit journalist who is searching for more information on ages, dates of death, and whether or not individuals who died in nursing homes from the virus contracted the virus at the facility,
The journalist, Charlie LeDuff, was told that the information he is requesting is exempt under the state’s public records law.
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The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is covering up state data to show the extent of devastation from Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s repeated orders last year which forced COVID-stricken patients into nursing homes.
Whitmer signed an executive order on April 15 demanding long-term care facilities “must not prohibit admission or readmission of a resident based on COVID-19 testing requirements or results,” and renewed the policy several times until it was rescinded in September. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo passed similar orders last year and engaged in a cover-up which has left the governor in the fight for his political life against calls for impeachment.
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