LANSING, MI (AP)-- The prosecutor of Michigan’s third-largest county says he will investigate COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, saying there are questions about whether the transfer of recovering patients into facilities led residents and staff to be infected.
Macomb County’s Peter Lucido is a Republican who has criticized Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus-related nursing home policies. He is urging families with concerns about a relative’s “transfer, incident or death” to submit a form to local law enforcement.
The Whitmer administration has said no home was forced to accept infected patients. A Whitmer spokesman called Lucido’s comments “shameful political attacks based in neither fact nor reality.”
