Missouri Veterans Commission Issues Initial Report on Veterans Homes’ COVID Deaths

The lieutenant governor says the Missouri Veterans Commission (MVC) has released an initial report about the increasing number of COVID deaths in Missouri veterans homes, since September. Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe says some of the MVC’s recommendations are financial.

The report also notes that the air flow systems in some state veterans homes contribute to the coronavirus and other viruses spreading. The Lt. Governor tells News Talk KZRG, ” … with a list of some short-term things we can implement immediately, and I know the (Veterans) Commission and the Veterans administration is working on that as we speak”

The MVC says 87 veterans living in state veterans homes have died from COVID, since September 1. That includes 12 deaths in the past 12 days at the home in northwest Missouri’s Cameron.