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1) Covid 19. Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, N.Y., described as the “epicenter of the epicenter of Covid 19....From the beginning of the crisis, ventilators were described as essential life saving equipment, initially in short supply.” Cont.
2)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. Cont.
3)Part of her duties included aid dispersement & improvements to hospital facilities. She received the Army Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service & was wounded in combat. She retired as a Sargeant & became a civilian nurse in 2012. Cont.
4)She offered her experience & 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, cont.
5)...”the disregard for PPE standards & the clustering of Covid positive with Covid negative patients, which she witnessed again & again; & the tremendous amount of Hospital acquired infections that resulted.” Cont.
6)Erin also speaks of the Hospital therapies & protocols that did work in her home State of Florida. Erin was brought to Elmhurst by FEMA & spent a month there.”What she saw there compelled her to become a reporter & whistleblower.” One of Erin’s most disturbing findings: Cont.
7)that people who had repeatedly tested negative for Covid were being described as Covid confirmed.”People were coming in with anxiety & difficulty breathing. They weren’t Covid. They’re on Medicaid or Medicare, they’re poor. Cont.
8)Elmhurst is a public Hospital & it needs the funding, so they take them & 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.”...
9)”There aren’t really Doctors that know critical care, ICU Doctors, on these floors...there are residents, who are basically students & they have no idea what they’re doing...nobody is held accountable for anything & these residents are practicing their skills on them. Cont.
10)”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. ...
11)”We have enough rooms to separate them now, but they don’t care.”...”We have in the U.S. a rapid test for Covid 19, & 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.”Cont.
12)”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 Hospital in Iraq. The Iraq Hospital is better than Elmhurst Hospital & that says a lot.” Cont.
13)”They’re treating mostly low income people here & it almost makes me feel like, they think these people are disposable...they’re trying to reach that American dream, they’re hard workers, & they’re not given a chance, because they’re brought to this place where nobody cares...
14)”It’s all about the money. If a person is deemed Covid positive, 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.”...
15)”I’m seeing all these negative tests & they’re putting them on these vents & 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 & they deserve it.”.
16)”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, & sets a person up for the vent. A more natural method of giving oxygen is a non re-breather mask. Cont.
17)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 & the drugs he was given, didn’t sedate him, fortunately, because of his tolerance. He walked out of the Hospital. Cont.
18)”The Resident Physicians want to please, they follow orders” & 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. Cont.
19)”The lung membranes expand so then you need more pressure, then you just wait for them to die”....In Erin’ hometown Hospital, there was no pressure to diagnose a person as Covid. It wasn’t a public Hospital & that makes a huge difference. Cont.
20)The hometown Hospital was using Hydroxychloroquine & Zinc as protocol & it worked. They didn’t have anyone that died. In Erin’s opinion, the Hydroxychloroquine & Zinc have been demonized so much, because it’s working & therefore, people wouldn’t need vents. Cont.
21)In New York, Gov. Cuomo, basically put a ban on using Hydroxychloroquine. Erin says:”What made Cuomo a Medical Professional to make these decisions & intrude on a Doctor/ Patient relationship?” She says, because he wants a vent. Cuomo wants to be right. Cont.
22)He requested all these vents, & 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 for the government to ever intrude on a Doctor/Patient relationship...
23)”If anything should be HIPAA protected, it’s this.” Cont.
24)Conclusion: If you’re admitted to a public Hospital in the United States & you show symptoms of Covid, chances are you’re not going to be leaving that Hospital alive. Public Hospitals are under tremendous financial pressures & are driven by making money by any means possible..
25)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 a vitally important device for all Hospitals to obtain, & they were obtainable, but Hospitals preferred the 5-7 day tests..
26)...so that people could be admitted, treated & billed to the government & then readily disposed. Ventilators turned out to be the Highway to Death, overwhelmingly most of the time. Cont.
27)Governors, under the Color of Law, interceded themselves into the Doctor/ Patient relationship & caused immensely, more harm than good. / Done
