Doctor admits what we all suspected for months: COVID patients were immediately placed on ventilators whether they needed one or not, resulting in unnecessary mass death. Their excuse? Ventilators prevented the spread of COVID throughout the hospital. Unspeakable.
Read this entire passage from the Wall Street Journal:
“Last spring, doctors put patients on ventilators partly to limit contagion at a time when it was less clear how the virus spread, when protective masks and gowns were in short supply. Doctors could have employed other kinds of breathing support devices that don’t require risky sedation, but early reports suggested patients using them could spray dangerous amounts of virus into the air, said Theodore Iwashyna, a critical-care physician at University of Michigan and Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in Ann Arbor, Mich.
At the time, he said, doctors and nurses feared the virus would spread through hospitals. “We were intubating sick patients very early. Not for the patients’ benefit, but in order to control the epidemic and to save other patients,” Dr. Iwashyna said “That felt awful.”
Ventilators can injure lungs by causing too much strain as the machines force in air. They deliver air and oxygen through a throat tube, which the body typically fights. “We’ve got gag reflexes that are pretty hard to go away, precisely to avoid things going into our lungs,” Dr. Iwashyna said.
As a safety precaution, doctors and hospitals limited the access of health-care workers to coronavirus patients on ventilators, giving them fewer opportunities to check on them. That meant patients required more powerful sedatives to keep them from pulling out throat tubes. Sedation increases risk for delirium, research suggests, and delirium increases the likelihood of long-term confusion and death.”
I don’t buy the excuse. They did it for the money. Hospitals were incentivized to put patients on a ventilator, and they did exactly what close observers of human nature predicted they would do. This is a huge, tragic scandal, and those involved deserve prison.
Broadway actor Nick Cordero was placed on a ventilator immediately upon entering the hospital, and he stayed on one for 50 days until he died. His widow should be outraged that her husband was probably sacrificed to hysteria and greed. Unbelievable, bottomless evil.
