LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday refused to discuss the circumstances surrounding the abrupt departure of Michigan’s health director during the coronavirus pandemic, including whether she asked for his resignation.
The Democratic governor also declined to set a date for the return of youth contact sports, despite growing pressure after her administration extended the ban through Feb. 21, three months after it began.
Robert Gordon, who issued COVID-19 restrictions after Whitmer's powers were upended by an October court ruling, resigned Friday as director of the state Department of Health and Human Services after two years on the job. The governor named Elizabeth Hertel to succeed him, calling her “another incredibly qualified person” at the department.
“It’s been a grueling couple of years, and changes in administrations happen,” the governor said during a news conference in which she would not say, in response to multiple questions, if she had sought Gordon’s exit. “I wish Robert Gordon the very best. I truly do. I'm incredibly grateful for the hard work and the way that he showed up every single day over these last two years.”
The state has announced that restaurants and bars can resume dine-in service, starting Feb. 1, after a significant drop in virus cases and hospitalizations.
But youth contact sports, including winter high school seasons in basketball, hockey, wrestling and competitive cheer, remain off-limits.
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