Records: COVID-19 nursing home deaths may have been undercounted in Michigan
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s nursing home policies have been under scrutiny for months. Now, a review shows more may have died in the facilities than initially known.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s nursing home policies have been under scrutiny for months. Now, a review shows more may have died in the facilities than initially known.
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...