19 January 2022: Whitmer Medical Adviser Attempts to Downplay COVID Nursing Home Deaths

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whitmers-top-doc-downplays-covid-nursing-home-deaths-tough-decisions-have-to-be-made

This report suggests the Whitmer administration is changing tactics from disputing the definitions used to count COVID nursing home deaths that occurred under Governor Gretchen Whitmer's version of Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive to instead claim their policy of dumping COVID patients from hospitals to nursing homes was justified for medical reasons.

Embattled Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s top medical adviser downplayed the COVID-19 nursing home deaths that have scandalized the governor’s administration.

Michigan’s chief medical executive Natasha Bagdasarian, who joined the Whitmer administration after the scandal broke, said the two-year pandemic has illustrated that "tough choices have to be made."

"It’s difficult for me to comment on things that occurred before I was both working at the state and, actually, before I was even in Michigan," Bagdasarian said. "However, I can say that, during the pandemic, what we’ve really seen is that tough decisions have to be made, sometimes with very little notice as we learn new information and as the virus changes."

"So, this whole pandemic has just been an opportunity to learn and to be as agile and nimble as possible," she continued. "And it’s difficult, I think, to second-guess some of those decisions that were made early on in the pandemic when, again, we were still learning about the virus and learning about how it behaved in certain settings."

Just so we're clear, it was known before the end of March 2020 that COVID and nursing homes would be a "toxic mix" and that "coronavirus in a nursing home can be like fire in dry grass". While Dr. Bagdasarian may not have been responsible for what happened in Michigan, her statement would appear aimed at attempting to assist the Whitmer administration in avoiding having to face consequences for its actions.