The U-S Justice Department is asking for data on COVID-19 nursing home deaths from Michigan and other states.
The U-S Justice Department says it’s requesting COVID-19 data from the governors of states who issued orders which the department says may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.
The DOJ is asking for this information from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
The agency says it’s evaluating whether to initiate investigations under the federal “Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act” which protects the civil rights of persons in state-run nursing homes, among others.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s press secretary Tiffany Brown issued a statement saying sending the letters during the middle of the Republican National
Convention to four Democratic governors is “nothing more than election year politics”.