The state House Oversight Committee is looking into the governor’s nursing home policies that Republicans say led to numerous deaths. Governor Whitmer denies ever ordering nursing homes to take in those who were infected. But Representative Pat Outman, from Montcalm County, says the governor vetoed a bill that would have prevented the transfer of COVID-positive patients back into nursing homes.
“What really blows my mind is we didn’t have to do this,” said Outman. “We didn’t have to shove COVID positive patients into nursing homes. We literally had field hospitals set up across the state we didn’t even utilize them.”
The lawmakers have requested a full investigation by the Attorney General’s office, claiming the state’s policies placed those with and without COVID in the same facilities, contributing to the deaths of over 55-hundred residents.
