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OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — Nathaniel Kelly, the man commissioners in Ottawa County are trying to appoint to the position of county health officer, once mocked the governor’s sign language interpreter and told a forum of health professionals that asymptomatic spread of the COVID-19 virus was “not a thing.”
Studies have shown that asymptomatic spread of COVID doesn’t only exist, but accounts for more than 50% of coronavirus transmission.
But at the America’s Frontline Industrial Hygienists and Multidisciplinary Support Summit held in August of 2022, Kelly claimed the opposite, among other disproven statements about the virus that has, so far, killed over a million Americans.
“No social distancing would be suggested since it has no basis in any proven science,” said Kelly, explaining his suggested approach to containing the spread of COVID-19. “No mass testing for asymptomatic individuals. Asymptomatic individuals do not transmit disease, that is not a thing.”
Kelly also suggested during that same speech that residents should’ve been sent COVID-19 kits that contained zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, and ivermectin, a widely debunked treatment for COVID-19 that is primarily used as a deworming treatment for horses.
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