21 January 2022: Analysis - Michigan Knew Its Nursing Home COVID Death Count Was Wrong

Commentary: Michigan Knew Its Nursing Home Covid Toll Was Wrong

Charlie LeDuff and Steve Delie have done perhaps the most work to keep the story of Michigan's Whitmer administration's undercount of the state's COVID nursing home deaths alive. In this commentary, they describe the following:

• The Whitmer administration's "bizarre rebuttal" of Michigan's Auditor General's findings.
• An effort by Whitmer administration officials to find out the real number of COVID nursing home deaths in August 2020 after the Associated Press reported the New York's Cuomo administration undercounted COVID nursing home deaths.
• State officials giving up on their effort to audit COVID nursing home deaths.
• The failure of top state health official Robert Gordon to provide accurate information and his subsequent resignation and the unusual bonus he received.

There's a lot of information to mine in LeDuff's and Delie's short analysis. We recommend clicking through to the article to get the full picture it paints in context. That picture suggests a near Cuomo-level cover-up on the part of Whitmer administration officials.