Democratic-Led States Targeted in DOJ’s Review of Nursing Home Deaths
- Justice Department seeking data to determine if probe needed
- Michigan Governor Whitmer calls move ‘election year politics’
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The Trump administration said orders by four states led by Democratic governors requiring nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients may have caused the disease to spread, killing thousands of elderly residents.
The Justice Department said in a statement on Wednesday that New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan mandated that people be accepted by the facilities “often without adequate testing.” It’s requesting data from the states to determine whether to open investigations.