Nursing Home Deaths Become a Political Football
Prognosis: Misconception
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In recent months, GOP lawmakers have heaped criticism on Democratic governors for how they handled outbreaks at nursing homes early in the pandemic. Michigan Republicans, who have been hostile to Governor Gretchen Whitmer throughout the crisis, are now asking the state’s attorney general to investigate how she coped with that challenge.
Republicans say that people died unnecessarily thanks to Whitmer’s order that nursing homes readmit residents with Covid-19 if they had capacity and quarantine capabilities. David Welch reports that 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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| 0:41.7 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 354 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. Today's main story, some Democratic governors have been under fire for mishandling |
| 0:49.6 | nursing home outbreaks as the pandemic surged last spring. |
| 0:59.0 | There are Republican critics see that as an opportunity. |
| 1:24.4 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. Federal health officials called on Texas and Mississippi residents to keep wearing masks, |
| 1:29.3 | even as governors there lift COVID-19 restrictions. Rochelle Wollenski, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, |
| 1:34.3 | says it's premature to abandon mitigation efforts, |
| 1:38.3 | and that the virus can still erupt again. |
| 1:42.3 | Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Tuesday that the state would lift its mask mandate |
| 1:48.0 | and reopen businesses next week. |
| 1:51.3 | He is also banning counties from fining or jailing people who disregard local measures, |
| 1:58.1 | defying previous warnings from Wolenski and others. |
| 2:03.5 | South African authorities said they seized about 2,400 doses of fake coronavirus vaccines |
| 2:11.3 | after following up on a global alert issued by Interpol. |
| 2:16.3 | The bogus shots were found at a warehouse in Germiston, |
| 2:19.9 | near Johannesburg, and three Chinese nationals and a Zambian national were arrested, |
| 2:25.4 | according to the police in a statement. Finally, yet another vaccine in development is showing |
| 2:32.5 | promising results. |
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