Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed Friday a bill from the GOP-controlled Legislature that would have shifted elderly people with COVID-19 away from nursing homes and into entirely separate facilities.
The bill was a direct challenge to the Whitmer administration’s current handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has focused on caring for those with the virus in isolated spaces of existing homes.
The governor’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes has been a target of Republican criticism. About 33% of the state’s deaths linked to the virus have been nursing home residents or employees, according to state data.
Every state with coronavirus nursing home guidelines like those of the Whitmer administration has since shifted to a policy similar to what Republicans proposed, Lucido said Friday.
Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoes bill directing COVID-19 patients away from nursing homes
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