to take covid patients, it by demand we take covid patients the patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn t have otherwise died had we screen them out. murphy officials countered by saying that there were guidelines for separating covid positive patients. the long-term care administrator reportedly said the problem of course is there s no separating safely. it s almost certain that even though you have staff only on that unit, something will migrate. we have learned from recent reporting that michigan governor gretchen whitmer s office didn t force nursing homes to take covid positive patients but instead offered financial incentives. new york s governor andrew cuomo and his administration issued a directive telling nursing homes not to turn away covid positive patients and then allegedly covered up the number of deaths of nursing home or long-term care residents. pennsylvania governor tom wolf also reportedly guided covid positive patients back into nursing homes and at