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Kevin McCarthy: “Decisions made by certain Governors--40 percent of the death in this country happened in nursing homes, and decisions…”

On the recordJuly 1, 2020
Decisions made by certain Governors--40 percent of the death in this country happened in nursing homes, and decisions made by Governors in five states that would, in hindsight, frankly I don't even know of any hindsight, that were just ridiculous wrong decisions cost of the lives of so many thousands.
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Kevin McCarthy
Republican · California

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McCarthy blames governors for high nursing home COVID-19 death rates.

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