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### **Tim Walz’s Team is Deleting Controversial Content**
Under the leadership of Democratic Governor Tim Walz during the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota witnessed a tragic toll on its most vulnerable populations, with a staggering 80% of the state's COVID-related fatalities occurring within long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes and assisted living centers.
The controversy centers on a contentious policy, also adopted by other states during the crisis, which permitted the readmission of COVID-positive patients into nursing homes post-hospital discharge. This policy, no longer publicly accessible on Minnesota's government website, was retrieved through the Wayback Machine.
The policy states, "Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to congregate living facilities." Furthermore, it specifies, "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."
In May 2020, data revealed that over 80% of Minnesota's COVID-19 deaths were among long-term care facility residents. Despite this alarming statistic, Governor Walz staunchly defended the policy. "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," he stated during the height of the crisis.
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