>>9766032 pb Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, Elmhurst hospital in NY
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Nurse on the Frontlines of COVID-19 Shares Her Experience
The heavily censored video, "Perspectives on the Pandemic: Episode Nine," features an interview with retired Army Sergeant Erin Olszewski, a nurse turned private citizen journalist who for the past few months has cared for COVID-19 patients in Florida and New York.
Initially, a shortage of ventilators was blamed for the exaggerated death toll. But it didn't take long before doctors recognized that mechanical ventilation did more harm than good in a majority of cases.
Olszewski addresses a number of problems at Elmhurst, including the disproportionate mortality rate among people of color, the controversial rule surrounding Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders, lax personal protective equipment (PPE) standards, and the failure to segregate COVID-positive and COVID-negative patients, thereby ensuring maximum spread of the disease among noninfected patients coming in with other health problems.
Olszewski accepted a temporary transfer from Florida to New York and spent nearly four weeks at Elmhurst. What she witnessed spurred her to become an undercover reporter and whistleblower. She secretly recorded happenings in the hospital and posted warnings on social media. The standard of care at Elmhurst is so poor, Olszewski compares it to "a third-world country hospital."
The first topic Olszewski approaches is Elmhurst's case numbers. Patients who repeatedly tested negative for COVID-19 were still listed as confirmed positive and placed on mechanical ventilation, thus artificially inflating the numbers while more or less condemning the patient to death from lung injury.
According to Olszewski, most patients who had difficulty breathing were immediately placed on mechanical ventilation. Many of these cases were likely nothing more than anxiety, she says. But why?
Financial incentives appear to be at play. Elmhurst, a public hospital, is able to charge Medicaid and Medicare a lot more for COVID-19 patients than for other diagnoses. According to Olszewski, the hospital receives $29,000 extra for a COVID-19 patient receiving ventilation, over and above other treatments.
Making matters worse, many of the doctors treating these patients are not trained in critical care. One of the "doctors" on the COVID floor is a dentist. Residents (medical students) are also relied on, "and they have no idea what they're doing," Olszewski says.
Not only are they not properly trained in how to safely ventilate, residents are also unfamiliar with the drugs being used and are making errors — none of which are being investigated simply because we're in a pandemic.
One resident instructed Olszewski to administer a dangerous drug at four times the safe speed — an error that would have killed the patient, had she followed the resident's instructions. According to Olszewski, residents are essentially using these patients for practice purposes, in many cases performing invasive procedures that are not necessary and will harm the patient.
Interestingly, while the elderly are the most at-risk for COVID-19 worldwide, a majority of COVID-19 patients in Elmhurst hospital are in their 40s and 50s — very few are over 80 — and Olszewski guesses that only about half of those being treated for COVID-19 have actually tested positive.
What's worse, Elmhurst is mixing these patients together, meaning patients who have actually tested positive for COVID-19 are interspersed among patients with negative test results.
"They're banking on the fact that they'll get it," Olszewski says, "because they're already immunocompromised." This despite the fact that they now have enough rooms in the hospital to separate these patients.
"It's murder. It's setting these people up for failure — based on money."
In her undercover video, Olszewski talks about how a stroke patient ended up contracting the disease due to being placed in the same room as a COVID-positive patient. He ended up on mechanical ventilation, drastically increasing his chances of dying due to lung damage.
Improper use of PPE further facilitates the spread of the virus. Elmhurst is also not using the rapid test, which gives you your test results in 45 minutes. It's more expensive, so they're not using it. Instead, they use a test that has a four- to five-day turnaround.
In the meantime, infected and noninfected patients are being comingled, as patients suspected of having COVID-19 are admitted straight into the COVID unit.
more https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/27/elmhurst-hospital-coronavirus.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDsKdeFOmQ