Current List of Submitted & Outstanding FOI Requests to New York City Agencies Related to the Spring 2020 Death Spike (Last Updated 4 March 2025)
Subject to ongoing updates
This is a list of freedom of information (FOI) requests I have submitted to public agencies in New York City that were overdue as of 6 January 2025, plus the status of additional requests I’ve submitted since then.
The records are critical to my ongoing independent investigation of the spring 2020 death spike, which I believe is fraudulent and an intentional misrepresentation of what occurred in real time.
Office of the Medical Examiner (OCME)
Submission date: 8 December 2023 (13 months overdue)
Last request for update: 6 January 2025
Last communication: 10 January 2024 (agency said expected fulfillment date is 1 May 2025)
Records Requested:
Number of cremation permit applications/requests received daily between 1/1/2018 - 12/22/2022
Number of cremation permit applications/requests approved daily 1/1/2018 - 12/22/2022
Number of autopsies performed weekly by the OCME between 1/1/2018 and 12/31/2022. Use zero (0) for any weeks in which zero autopsies were conducted
Underlying cause of death determinations for all deaths OCME determined between 10/1/2019 and 12/31/2022. Provide data as numerical frequencies representing the number of determinations for a particular cause determination, in a weekly format, if possible. (In previous communication, OCME staff told me OCME does not use WHO ICD codes in databases. Therefore, I am unsure how OCME categorizes cause of death determinations.)
Dates of death for all deaths processed by OCME, occurring between 1/1/2018 - 12/22/2022
All directives, orders, reports, memos, emails, and/or presentations that explain or mention the OCME’s processing of 12,663 deaths during the week of April 26th, 2020 - May 2, 2020.
The OCME’s end-of-April 2020 processing event is a huge red flag that I regard as a fraud signal. Why Did the New York City Medical Examiner Process 11,000 Deaths in Three Days?
OCME did supply some of the records related to my original December 2023 request. My interactions with staff regarding the initial submission are described in this article: There Is Simply No Way New York City Hospitals Handled 15K+ Extra Inpatient deaths in Eleven Weeks
Staff responded on 10 January 2025. Fulfillment of the request has been delayed until 1 May 2025. UPDATE: NYC Office of the Medical Examiner Says it Will Delay Response to My Year-Old Request Five More Months.
Submission date: 4 Feb 2025
Acknowledgement received: 11 Feb 2025; anticipated response date: 6 May 2025
Records requested:
Biological Incident Fatality Surge Plan for Managing In and out of Hospital Deaths
Daily morgue census reported by all New York City hospitals for as long as the morgue census survey was active [link inserted] Excel spreadsheet preferred with census reported as frequencies. I assume census includes hospital morgue and decedents stored in BCPs. If that is not the case, please state in responsive records. If daily census numbers can be disaggregated into hospital morgues and BCPs at hospitals, please provide the data in that format.
NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation (HHC)
Submission date: 31 July 2024 (5+ months overdue)
Last request for update: 6 January 2025
Request partially fulfilled and closed: 10 January 2025 (related article)
Daily census of all hospital patients intubated in the ICU from 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2022.
Daily or weekly medication inventory for paralytics and sedative agents (propofol, ketamine, versed, fentanyl, phenobarbital, pentobarbital, etomidate, aldol) from 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2022
Daily or weekly doses of all antibiotics administered to all patients from 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2022
I announced this request when I made it: July 31, 2024 Records Request to NYC Health + Hospitals for Time-series Intubation & Drug Data
I made the request in an effort to confirm or refute the Antibiotics Hypothesis as applied to New York City. As I said in a “memo” two months ago, I do not yet see evidence that sudden withdrawal of antibiotics drove the death spike. The Antibiotics Hypothesis and the New York City Death Spike.
I wrote about the pneumonia hypothesis with colleagues in August 2023: Whodunnit?
I continue to be concerned by data on sedatives/paralytic agents in New York hospitals shown in a 2021 study and highlighted in an article I co-authored (also initially published in August 2023): Ethical Boundaries in Medical Decision-Making Can Be Blurred by Circumstances
I provided a list of problems with data, requests and/or inquiries of or connected to NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation in this article: Can NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation Substantiate Its Spring 2020 Death Toll?
Request closed 10 January 2025. Partial records provided in response to only one aspect of the request: NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation Denies Access to Public Records Yet Again
New York City Police Department (NYPD)
Submission date: 24 March 2024 (12 months overdue)
Last request for update: 6 January 2025 | As of 4 March 2025, no response.
Number of calls on each day between 1/1/2018 and 12/31/2023 involving NYPD coming to the scene where one or more persons was pronounced dead.
I shared time-series data and studies related to number, magnitude, and nature of deaths occurring at home/at point of ambulance dispatch last year and posited that contaminated or “super charged” drugs could trigger a home cardiac arrest event like the one reported by FDNY but leaves the "trajectory” and nature of the curve unexplained. My request to NYPD above is an attempt to corroborate the Home death event: Did Strategic Chemical Poisoning & Orders to EMS Trigger New York City’s Spring 2020 Home Death Event?
Descriptions and related data in Problems 9) and 10) of this article raise more questions about First Responder data and the Home death event: Eleven Serious Problems with the New York City Spring 2020 Mass Casualty Event
…as does this thread.
I’ve previously reported that my request to the FDNY Chief Medical Officer for 911 call data in study was denied and that FDNY suddenly closed a request for ambulance transfer data, following a 14-month saga. (I submitted an appeal but have not received a response to that appeal.)
New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (NYC DOH)
Submission date: 15 October 2024
Last communication: Asked for status update on 15 November 2024. Agency said expected fulfillment date is 17 January 2025)
Request fulfilled: 27 January 2025. JAH has not yet reported data.
Daily number of dispositions - burials, New York City only, between 1/1/2016 and 1/1/2023
Daily number of dispositions - cremations, New York City only, between 1/1/2016 and 1/1/2023
Daily number dispositions - other/unknown, New York City only, between 1/1/2016 and 1/1/2023
Edit: DOH initially supplied records in response to this request but they were not the records requested.
Submission date: 20 November 2024
Communications: Update provided 9 Jan 2025: “We are working on a backlog of requests. Based on this backlog, I anticipate that you will receive a response to this request by February 27, 2025.” | 28 February 2025: The staff are still working on this, and additional time is therefore needed. I anticipate that you will have a response by March 13.
Number of death certificates requested from NYC DOHMH per month from January 2006 - December 2023
Number of death certificates issued in response to requests to NYC DOHMH from January 2006 - December 2023
The above requests to DOH are an attempt to “follow the bodies” and compare city data on dispositions and death certificate requests with the FEMA Funeral Assistance records. Information and data from the FEMA COVID-19 Funeral Assistance program are insufficient for substantiating the New York City spring 2020 disaster and suggest the death toll may be manipulated by 10,000 deaths or more: FEMA COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Data Fails to Substantiate the New York City Death Spike.
Submission date: 4 February 2024
Last Communication: Request never acknowledged due to typographical error in email address on my part. I resubmitted and the Dept acknowledged receipt on 4 March 2025.
Records requested:
Dates of death for all NYC resident deaths initially recorded as “probable” COVID-19 deaths.
Dates of death for all deaths occurring in NYC initially recorded as “probable” COVID-19 deaths.
Excel spreadsheet preferred. Please provide data as frequencies and use ‘0’ for dates on which no such deaths occurred
New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
Submission date: 15 October 2024.
Last request for acknowledgement/update: 6 January 2025; acknowledgement received 8 January 2025. Agency said no responsive records exist. I replied with excerpts from a document (and the document itself) showing that they should have these records or similar. RECORDS RECEIVED IN LATE JANUARY 2025. WAITING ON ADDITIONAL RECORDS TO BE PROVIDED BY MID-MARCH 2025.
Number of Body Collection Points (BCP) dispatched from March 1, 2020 through May 30, 2020 to New York City hospitals. Please provide a list of hospitals with the date each BCP was received by the hospital, and the date the BCP was retrieved.
Number of decedents placed into each Body Collection Point (BCP) dispatched to NYC hospitals between March 1, 2020 through May 30, 2020
The refrigerated trucks FEMA sent to New York City were underused as morgue space. Records show that those dispatched to hospitals could only account for 5-10% of hospital deaths that reportedly occurred between mid-March and end of May 2020. OEM managed the dispatch of other BCPs; my above request is an attempt to corroborate the hospital death toll, including the toll reported for the eleven taxpayer-funded hospitals managed by HHC. (Lincoln Medical Center and Elmhurst Hospital Center are HHC hospitals.) FEMA Records Confirm It Sent Refrigerated Trailers to New York City in Spring 2020 But Suggest Most Weren’t Used as Mobile Morgues.
For a summary of my ongoing NYC investigation, see “New York City Spring 2020: An Unsubstantiated Mass Casualty Event that Appears Fraudulent & Staged”
"The F Word” provides an explanation of what I mean when I say the daily death curve is “fraudulent”.
The death spikes in Lombardy, Italy, which preceded NYC by a few weeks, also appear manipulated. For an explanation related to one province in the region, see “Yes, We Believe the Bergamo (Italy) All-Cause Death is Fraudulent.”