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That would be significant because Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of nursing home COVID-19 cases has been under scrutiny for months, and Republican legislators are investigating why her administration initially created regional nursing home “hubs” to house infected patients. According to documents supplied to a Michigan-based podcast, No BS News Hour, and the Mackinac Center, which filed a lawsuit against the state to get COVID-19 death data, Michigan reviewed nearly 1,500 deaths from the earliest days of the pandemic, March through June 2020, that were later determined to be from COVI...

There is a "possibility" the state of Michigan has been "undercounting" coronavirus-related nursing home deaths, according to lawyers at the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. The Mackinac Center announced last week that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) agreed to a settlement with the foundation's client, Detriot journalist Charlie LeDuff, after the department failed to provide LeDuff with public records he requested in January under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) related to nursing home deaths. "This data is an essential part of accurately understanding the...

It appears that Michigan wildly under-counts Covid deaths in its long term care facilities. A joint investigation by the "No BS News Hour" and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy reveals that the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) does not do a thorough job of scrubbing  vital records to determine whether people who died of Covid were nursing home residents, as its own guidelines require. Moreover, our investigation found that DHHS did conduct a limited review of those vital records last summer, and found that 44 percent could be traced to nursing homes. Don't expect the nu...

‘Tardy Gras’, strip club vaccines, lifeguard shortage: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports © Gerald Herbert/AP A trinket is thrown from a float during a parade in Mobile, Ala., dubbed “Tardy Gras,” to compensate for canceled Mardi Gras festivities because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alabama  Mobile: Thousands of joyful revelers, many without masks, competed for plastic beads and trinkets tossed from floats as Alabama’s port city threw a Mardi Gras-style parade Friday night, its first since Carnival celebrations were scrapped earl...

State health agency releases some COVID-19 data after lawsuit LANSING — The Michigan health department settled a lawsuit by releasing information about people in long-term care sites who died of COVID-19, attorneys for a journalist said Friday. The department agreed to provide ages and dates of death but was unable to say whether the infection occurred at a long-term care facility “due to inadequate tracking,” the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation said. The group in March filed a lawsuit on behalf of Detroit-area journalist Charlie LeDuff, whose public records request was denied as exe...