Covid 19. Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y., described as the “epicenter of the epicenter of Covid 19…From the beginning of the crisis, ventilaters were described as essential life saving equipment, initially in short supply….were ventilators ever the right approach to treating Covid 19, once we realized that 60-90% of those ventilated, do not survive?”- May 12, 2020, Nurse Erin Olszewski.
Erin enlisted in the Army at age 17. She deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Part of her duties included aide dispersement and improvements to hospital facilities. She received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service and was wounded in combat. She retired as a Sergeant and became a civilian nurse in 2012.
“She offered her experience and observations working at Elmhurst Hospital, during this period of time. She describes the disproportionate number of Covid deaths among Americans of color; the distortion surrounding “Do not resuscitate” orders, the disregard for PPE standards and the clustering of Covid positive with Covid negative patients, which she witnessed again and again; and the tremendous amount of hospital acquired infections that resulted.”…Erin also speaks of the hospital therapies and protocols that did work in hospitals in her home State of Florida. Erin was brought to Elmhurst by FEMA and spent almost a month there.
“What she saw there compelled her to become a reporter and whistleblower.” One of Erin’s most disturbing findings: that people who had repeatedly tested negative for Covid were being described as Covid confirmed. “People were coming in with anxiety and difficulty breathing. They weren’t Covid; they’re on Medicaid or Medicare, they’re poor; Elmhurst is a public hospital and it needs the funding, so they take them and tell them “if they don’t get on a ventilator, then they’re probably not going to survive. But the reality is, if they get on that vent, the possibility of walking out of that hospital, is slim to none.”… “there aren’t really doctors that know critical care, ICU doctors on these floors…there are residents, who are basically students, and they have no idea what they’re doing….nobody is held accountable for anything and these residents are practicing their skills on them…probably half are testing positive for Covid, but the entire hospital is treating for Covid. The Hospital is banking on the fact that non Covid’s will get Covid…they’ll put them together in the same rooms, they don’t even care. We have enough rooms to separate them now, but they don’t care.”
“We have in the U.S. a rapid test, and we’ve had it for a while, that is 45 minutes…they’re not doing the rapid test here…it’s too expensive; they do the 5-7 day test. In the meantime, they’re admitted onto Covid units….I compare Elmhurst Hospital to a third world country. I’ve been in a third world country in Iraq. The Iraq hospital is better than Elmhurst Hospital, and that says a lot. They’re treating mostly low income people here and it almost makes me feel like, they think these people are disposable…they’re trying to reach that American dream, the hard workers, and they’re not given a chance, because they’re brought to this place where nobody cares….it’s all about the money; If a person is deemed Covid, that’s $29,000. per patient the hospital gets, plus billing all of the supplies, that’s a bonus.”….”There’s a lot of nurses that know things are wrong, but they’re afraid to say anything publicly.”….”I’m seeing all these negative tests, and they’re putting them on these vents and hopeful that they’ll get it, put on these Covid floors. It’s murder. It’s setting these people up for failure, based on money…I’ve called a lot of Doctors unethical to their face and they deserve it.”
“We had better outcomes in my home town (In Florida), because we were treating them properly.” Erin says you don’t need forced oxygen, that it stresses the lungs too much and sets a person up for the vent. A more natural method of giving oxygen is a re-breather mask. The case fatality rate at the Florida hospital was zero. The only person who survived Elmhurst, was a guy who pulled his own tube out. He was a drug addict and the drugs he was given didn’t sedate him, fortunately. He walked out of the hospital.”
…”The Resident Physicians want to please, they follow orders and the hospital protocol, is to treat, treat, treat…If you tell people something enough, that they need vents, they’re going to believe it. The pressure from the vents are blowing people’s lungs out. The lung membranes expand so then you need more pressure, then you just wait for them to die.”
In Erin’s hometown hospital, there was no pressure to diagnose a person as Covid. It wasn’t a public hospital and that makes a huge difference. The hometown hospital was using hydroxychloroquin and Zinc as protocol and it worked. They didn’t have anyone that died. In Erin’s opinion, the hydroxychloroquin and Zinc have been demonized so much, because it’s working and therefore, people wouldn’t need vents.
In New York, Gov. Cuomo basically put a ban on using hydroxychloroquin. Erin says, “What made Cuomo a medical professional to make these decisions and intrude on a doctor/ patient relationship?” She says, because he wants a vent. Cuomo wants to be right. He requested all these vents, and they want to use them. Cuomo granted hospitals blanket immunity from malpractice litigation during the epidemic, via executive order. Erin says: “There is no reason whatsoever to ever intrude on a doctor/ patient relationship. If anything should be HIPAA protected, it’s this.”
Conclusion: If you’re admitted to a public hospital in the United States and you show symptoms of Covid, chances are you’re not going to be leaving that hospital alive. Public hospitals are under tremendous financial pressures and are driven by making money by any means possible. The treatment protocols, such as Elmhurst, invariably lead to a person being put on a ventilator, which ultimately leads to death.
Rapid Covid tests are an extremely important device for all hospitals to obtain, and they were obtainable, but hospitals preferred the 5-7 day tests, so that people could be admitted, treated and billed to the government and then readily disposed.
Ventilators turned out to be the highway to death, overwhelmingly, most of the time. Governor’s, under the color of law, interceded themselves into the doctor/ patient relationship and caused more harm than good. / Done
There are no words but DAMN!!!