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29 May 2020
asserts · high · dan friesen · 00:45:36
Knowledge Fight · #438: May 26-28, 2020
The Michigan executive order mandated nursing homes with less than 80% capacity to create dedicated isolation units for COVID-19 affected residents.
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The Michigan governor didn't demand that COVID-19 cases be sent to nursing homes. However, she did sign an executive order in April which, quote, mandated that nursing homes with less than 80% capacity create dedicated isolation units for COVID-19 affected residents. An MLive article about this from April 15th makes it clear that what the order was seeking to achieve was to create safe, separate areas in long-term care facilities where it was possible.

29 May 2020
asserts · high · dan friesen · 00:46:47
Knowledge Fight · #438: May 26-28, 2020
The executive order included provisions protecting employees who display COVID-19 symptoms from being discharged or disciplined.
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I've read the executive order, and if their goal was to actively spread the virus in the homes, they put some roadblocks up. For one, the executive order, it makes it so any employee at any long-term care facility who as much as displays, quote, one or more of the principal symptoms for COVID-19 should remain in their homes or places of residence, and that their employers shall not discharge, discipline, or otherwise retaliate against them for doing so. Seems like you wouldn't offer that to workers if you were just looking to spread a virus.