The rumor-mongering began sometime Thursday when Nicholas Bagley, a University of Michigan Law School professor, tweeted an except of an internal document drafted by Henry Ford Health Systems.
"Patients who have ventilator or ICU care withdrawn will receive pain control and comfort measures," Bagley wrote, above a picture of the letter.
Shortly before midnight, Bagley deleted his tweet, telling followers he was "Going to take this down until it can be independently verified." Bagley added "The memo is circulating among doctors, but Henry Ford apparently can neither confirm nor deny it yet."
Not long after Bagley deleted the leaked letter, the Henry Ford Health System responded on Twitter that "With a pandemic, we must be prepared for worst case," adding that the hospital group had "Crafted a policy to provide guidance for making difficult patient care decisions," but with the "Hope never to have to apply them."
Then came the closing line in the Detroit News' coverage of the incident: "Bagley, who has since removed the document from Twitter, occupies 'a temporary position as special counsel in the Michigan governor's office to aid in the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic' as of March 21, according to an automatic response from his UM email." My request to his UM email after the Detroit News article published did not generate this automatic response.
Bagley did not respond to multiple phone and emails messages seeking comment, but it seems unfathomable to think that Whitmer's special counsel would read about the crisis and not immediately raise red flags with the Michigan coronavirus task force.
If Bagley had informed his colleagues about the letter, that would be even more disconcerting, because it would mean they didn't know whether the Henry Ford Health System-the second largest medical system in Michigan-had run out of ICU beds and ventilators.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/30/democrat-governors-coronavirus-aide-spreads-false-rumors-about-rationing/
"Patients who have ventilator or ICU care withdrawn will receive pain control and comfort measures," Bagley wrote, above a picture of the letter.
Shortly before midnight, Bagley deleted his tweet, telling followers he was "Going to take this down until it can be independently verified." Bagley added "The memo is circulating among doctors, but Henry Ford apparently can neither confirm nor deny it yet."
Not long after Bagley deleted the leaked letter, the Henry Ford Health System responded on Twitter that "With a pandemic, we must be prepared for worst case," adding that the hospital group had "Crafted a policy to provide guidance for making difficult patient care decisions," but with the "Hope never to have to apply them."
Then came the closing line in the Detroit News' coverage of the incident: "Bagley, who has since removed the document from Twitter, occupies 'a temporary position as special counsel in the Michigan governor's office to aid in the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic' as of March 21, according to an automatic response from his UM email." My request to his UM email after the Detroit News article published did not generate this automatic response.
Bagley did not respond to multiple phone and emails messages seeking comment, but it seems unfathomable to think that Whitmer's special counsel would read about the crisis and not immediately raise red flags with the Michigan coronavirus task force.
If Bagley had informed his colleagues about the letter, that would be even more disconcerting, because it would mean they didn't know whether the Henry Ford Health System-the second largest medical system in Michigan-had run out of ICU beds and ventilators.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/30/democrat-governors-coronavirus-aide-spreads-false-rumors-about-rationing/
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