From Fox News: Under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s watch during the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota experienced a devastating impact among its most vulnerable, as 80% of COVID-related deaths in the state occurred among residents of long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living centers.
Critics have taken aim at a policy, also practiced in other states during the pandemic, to allow patients with COVID into nursing homes after they were discharged from hospitals.
The policy in place is no longer available on the public-facing Minnesota government website and had to be acquired by the Wayback Machine.
The now-deleted policy, which is preserved on the Wayback Machine, reads:
“Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to congregate living facilities.
“It is the recommendation of MDH that patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 can be discharged when clinically indicated and neither discontinuation of transmission-based precautions nor the establishment of two negative COVID-19 tests is required prior to hospital discharge.”
The report notes that over 80% of Covid deaths in Minnesota were nursing home residents at one point, in May 2020.
However, Walz insisted at the time, “This was what everyone was doing. This was not a mistake. It wasn’t like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this.”
One internal memo recently surfaced showing that Walz literally blamed YOUTH SPORTS for the wave of deaths among nursing home residents.
MN Gov. TIM WALZ and his cabinet CAUGHT VIA EMAIL concocting a false narrative in Nov 2020 that youth sports were causing COVID-related deaths in nursing homes.
They had ZERO evidence. Tim Walz locked down the state for two months. pic.twitter.com/khPZFzq2Qq
— MN Up North Lake Guy (@MNUpNorthLakeG1) August 6, 2024
Remember the New York covid nursing home scandal that ended Andrew Cuomo’s career? Well, Tim Walz had the exact same policy in Minnesota—send sick patients back to nursing homes—except he subsequently said it was “not a mistake.”
This alone should be disqualifying. pic.twitter.com/urdwLESEht
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) August 6, 2024
Dr. Scott Jensen, a doctor in Minnesota who fought back against the lockdowns and vaccines mandates during the Covid pandemic, slammed Walz’s handling of the issue. Jensen, a Republican, ran against Walz for governor in 2022, but did not win.
“He quit. He quit on the National Guard, he quit on the cops, he quit on the State Patrol, he quit on the kids, and he quit on the people who were dying in nursing homes,” Jensen said of Walz.
.@drscottjensen calls out Democrat Gov. Tim Walz’s four years of failure:
“He quit. He quit on the National Guard, he quit on the cops, he quit on the State Patrol, he quit on the kids, and he quit on the people who were dying in nursing homes.” #MNGov pic.twitter.com/OgeunAKKPJ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 28, 2022
Tim Walz doubled down on allowing COVID patients into nursing homes despite 80% death stat https://t.co/hwqLA5T6pg
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 16, 2024
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