GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano's baseless claim that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing homes caused thousands of deaths continues to be a plank in his campaign platform.
FILE - State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, the Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, gestures to the cheering crowd during his primary night election party in Chambersburg, Pa., May 17, 2022. Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of election fraud. But they've been quiet about any such concerns when declaring victory in their own primary elections this spring.
Mastriano, a state senator and retired U.S. Army colonel who won the Republican nomination while trafficking in conspiracy theories, seemingly came out of nowhere to become a rising force in right-wing politics primarily by leading anti-shutdown rallies in the pandemic’s early days. David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, echoed that, saying, “I pretty strongly feel that staff were the dominant pathway to COVID entering these buildings.”
Some of Konetzka’s research included using cell phone data to track the movements of workers to compare it to the location of outbreaks. Mastriano went on, saying, “they’re the ones that sent the sick back into the homes. Their policies, Democrat policies, and killed so many. That’s extreme.”Mastriano, Wolf’s office said, is a “science denier” who “put lives in danger throughout the pandemic by openly downplaying the crisis and opposing vaccines and other mitigation efforts.
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