I transcribed the three videos Dr. Pierre Kory sent me in response to observations I made & questions I posed about his spring 2020 experiences with COVID-19 in Madison, Wisconsin, and New York City. I used quotation marks to denote Dr. Kory reading from what I asked him. The topics
It's getting late, so I will look into this another time. But I just had to say, as someone who does transcription for work all day, every day, I know what a task this must have been! (People DO NOT understand.) So, thank you!
Sure thing. Academically, I'm trained as a qualitative/mixed-methods researcher, so this is par for the course. There are only a few times I've ever outsourced transcription.
Thank you for the transcript. I saw that Denis Rancourt recently posted three papers showing that happy hypoxia as it has been called is also not unique to covid and I was very surprised to see that one of the papers asserts that anyone deeply familiar with the lungs should know that. That leaves less and less to distinguish covid in that NYC ICU from simply meaning ill and ventilated rather than some novel disease progression.
I don't know and I am certainly no expert but he seems unnecessarily defensive at times and almost resentful of answering some questions, it was subtle but it was there. I just feel someone who is 100% convinced of the situation presented to him during 2020 and his resulting actions and words would be more open and less resentful to any queries. I was not convinced by him which surprised me. He could be a man who is desperately trying to conceal, even to himself, the true reality of Covid 2020.
I got quite sick with a covid-positive test back in 21/22 (unvaxxed). It doesn’t offend me to question whether covid was truly novel. I will say the experience was unlike any respiratory infection I had ever had, but I can still appreciate that the data suggests there was no pandemic-causing virus. Until we can sit down and sift through anecdotes and data, we won’t know for sure what caused this novel experience for some. But regardless of this, the lies propagated by health authorities regarding vaccines, respiratory infections, treatments etc.. were plain to see.
Indeed. Maybe it was my first experience with some particular coronavirus. Not fun. Got treatment though (steroids and antibiotics, inhaled NAC) and made a full recovery. As crappy as it was (took 6 weeks to fully recover) I'm totally happy I didn't get the transfection (covid shot).
Something very bizarre about the “protocols” he helped create early on. Running IV tubing thru walls? How does one assess the IV site? That does not add up.
I observe that Dr. Kory's descriptions of Covid symptoms differs from the symptoms experienced by the Chinese doctors dealing with Covid in Wuhan. Also, the severity differs. In Wuhan, we are told that only 26% of patients hospitalized for Covid ended up in ICU, and less than 5% of hospitalized covid patients died. The treatments also seem to have been different. Also, the age and comorbidity analysis from Wuhan differs from Dr. Kory's story. Significantly, the Chinese estimate that 41% of patients picked up Covid while in the hospital. (The UK has estimated it similarly). And he wonders why some people have difficulty attributing what supposedly happened in NYC to Covid?
Just as curious is his stance that no investigation of what occurred in NYC hospitals is warranted, if only on the basis of the younger-adult death numbers.
On a somewhat related note, I recently found an April 4, 2020 Zoom call recording in which multiple NYC hospital doctors were describing their experiences in their private hospital system. You will appreciate the following comments that were made:
"As the volume of patients with suspected COVID increased, we identified relatively early that the clinical presentation of this virus is quite broad and when community spread and increased patients presenting with completely unrelated complaints were still found to be COVID positive. As a result, we moved quickly to a strategy of masking almost all patients, unless someone was presenting with an isolated ankle fracture or laceration.”
“Our hospital system has made the decision to test any patient that is being admitted to the hospital for COVID19 and that is because we have found so many patients that didn't meet initial criteria for testing.”
“One thing we learned for sure is that we cannot predict who does not have the disease. As a system we saw the disease in someone with appendicitis someone who broke their neck when they fell someone who was admitted to the ICU with urosepsis and like urine culture proven positive blood cultures positive.”
I think a recent article I wrote is germane to the topic/debate of whether there was a "novel virus" spreading in the world months before the lockdowns (and did this virus make huge numbers of people sick?)
I’ve reached the conclusion that tens of millions of people had already been infected by this novel virus before the lockdowns. To me, this proves this virus was NOT “deadly” as there would have been a huge number of Covid deaths by March 1 if this virus was as lethal as the experts said it was.
One way I’ve tried to prove or support my “early spread” hypothesis is by publishing some of the testimonials of people who think they had early cases. I’ve actually been saving many hundreds of these testimonials for almost four years. Yesterday, I just published excerpts from some of these testimonials.
I hope a few serious Covid researchers will at least skim these comments, which are very interesting and, I think, quite persuasive. Basically, when you have millions of people who think the same thing, this volume of anecdotes might actually be significant.
Thanks, Jessica. You got it. I did it for the "historical record." (Everything I do is for that record as I don't think I'm necessarily moving the needle in the here and now.)
You might contact the office of Republican Joann Ariola, Chair of the Fire Committee. You are doing a "study on the response time of ambulances". There is a few of her committee meetings, one on finance, one on housing. Check the calendar. Maybe she can give you a commitment. Let me know.
It starts with a 1-page narrative bio that says, "Dr. Kory has led ICU’s in multiple COVID-19 hotspots throughout the pandemic, having led his old ICU in New York City during their initial surge in May for 5 straight weeks, he then travelled to other COVID-19 hotspots to run COVID ICU’s in Greenville, South Carolina and Milwaukee, WI during their surges."
I was also curious if anyone wants to comment on his defense of remdesivir for early outpatient treatment. I am not familiar with the trial he is talking about that shows "profoundly positive" results if it is used early. I don't think it has ever been used at any scale for early treatment? Remdesivir is a drug that emerged from a highly connected group of people, such as the new CDC director, and I was surprised to see Dr. Kory defend it when it has such a bad reputation now. Perhaps that has to do with the ongoing litigation he mentioned in one of his comment sections where he apparently is acting as an expert witness to defend doctor's use of hospital protocols which he claims are poorly understood by social media.
I think the reason he is all over the place is that he won't allow himself to believe that his worldview of "medicine as savior" is wrong; he just thinks that some people were wrong in their practices, but that overall, "modern medicine" is superior to anything else.
Thank you for doing the transcriptions. It's doubtful I would watch all three videos. It's notable that Kory himself makes a couple claims far outside the mainstream. "Long Vax" Americans numbering potentially close to 3 million; and the virus as a bioweapon (released by the U.S. military, right?).
Re: Dr. Kory's statement that he was hearing news of hospitals being overwhelmed in places like Detroit, New Orleans, and NYC
In the Detroit area in the spring of 2020, a journalist reported a false story about lots of young people on ventilators at a certain hospital. His source was second-hand info from someone who saw a post by a doctor making that claim. The doctor actually made up the story because he didn't think people were "taking the virus seriously enough," and the author of the article did not vet the info with the hospital before reporting it. His excuse was that he believed a doctor should be trusted, and that it was important to get the info out to the public as soon as possible. The hospital made its own statement that the info was completely false; there were no young people on ventilators in their hospital. The doctor was made to issue a public apology.
Here is the source that was sharing the fraudulent story as true, without vetting it.
In this "apology" piece, the author says, "On Friday night, Beaumont hospital issued a statement saying that 90 percent of the coronavirus patients in its eight hospitals were over the age of 40, which we included in the story." But that is misleading. He first shared the story *without any info from the hospital system* then added when it became available.
I'm fascinated by how different the new york experience was from other places. Right down to the demographics. Where else were 30 year olds so seriously ill? And why wasn't that seen when the virus was silently circulating for months before the wuhan outbreak. People found it to be a nasty flu. Nothing more
It's getting late, so I will look into this another time. But I just had to say, as someone who does transcription for work all day, every day, I know what a task this must have been! (People DO NOT understand.) So, thank you!
Sure thing. Academically, I'm trained as a qualitative/mixed-methods researcher, so this is par for the course. There are only a few times I've ever outsourced transcription.
It really is nice to see someone who understands!
Indeed. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
When you transcribe, you see what you otherwise would not see.
Thank you for the transcript. I saw that Denis Rancourt recently posted three papers showing that happy hypoxia as it has been called is also not unique to covid and I was very surprised to see that one of the papers asserts that anyone deeply familiar with the lungs should know that. That leaves less and less to distinguish covid in that NYC ICU from simply meaning ill and ventilated rather than some novel disease progression.
I don't know and I am certainly no expert but he seems unnecessarily defensive at times and almost resentful of answering some questions, it was subtle but it was there. I just feel someone who is 100% convinced of the situation presented to him during 2020 and his resulting actions and words would be more open and less resentful to any queries. I was not convinced by him which surprised me. He could be a man who is desperately trying to conceal, even to himself, the true reality of Covid 2020.
Yeah. If you watch him on mute, he really radiates a fakeness about whatever he’s explaining .
Conceal to himself yes. He has hard see no evil blinders on.
Few things blind like money and influence.
Evil is also hard to make yourself see. Unless you’re a participant
I got quite sick with a covid-positive test back in 21/22 (unvaxxed). It doesn’t offend me to question whether covid was truly novel. I will say the experience was unlike any respiratory infection I had ever had, but I can still appreciate that the data suggests there was no pandemic-causing virus. Until we can sit down and sift through anecdotes and data, we won’t know for sure what caused this novel experience for some. But regardless of this, the lies propagated by health authorities regarding vaccines, respiratory infections, treatments etc.. were plain to see.
Novel for an individual doesn't mean novel to humankind :)
I will no doubt say multiple times before I die, "this is the sickest I've ever been."
Indeed. Maybe it was my first experience with some particular coronavirus. Not fun. Got treatment though (steroids and antibiotics, inhaled NAC) and made a full recovery. As crappy as it was (took 6 weeks to fully recover) I'm totally happy I didn't get the transfection (covid shot).
https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/the-sickest-ive-ever-been?utm_source=publication-search
:)
Something very bizarre about the “protocols” he helped create early on. Running IV tubing thru walls? How does one assess the IV site? That does not add up.
I am thinking that after they placed the IV, they monitored the patient remotely and adjusted levels of medication at a point outside the room.
How many people's deaths were caused in part by seeing medical personnel so frightened of the "virus" that they didn't even want to enter the room?
I observe that Dr. Kory's descriptions of Covid symptoms differs from the symptoms experienced by the Chinese doctors dealing with Covid in Wuhan. Also, the severity differs. In Wuhan, we are told that only 26% of patients hospitalized for Covid ended up in ICU, and less than 5% of hospitalized covid patients died. The treatments also seem to have been different. Also, the age and comorbidity analysis from Wuhan differs from Dr. Kory's story. Significantly, the Chinese estimate that 41% of patients picked up Covid while in the hospital. (The UK has estimated it similarly). And he wonders why some people have difficulty attributing what supposedly happened in NYC to Covid?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761044
Good observations.
Just as curious is his stance that no investigation of what occurred in NYC hospitals is warranted, if only on the basis of the younger-adult death numbers.
On a somewhat related note, I recently found an April 4, 2020 Zoom call recording in which multiple NYC hospital doctors were describing their experiences in their private hospital system. You will appreciate the following comments that were made:
"As the volume of patients with suspected COVID increased, we identified relatively early that the clinical presentation of this virus is quite broad and when community spread and increased patients presenting with completely unrelated complaints were still found to be COVID positive. As a result, we moved quickly to a strategy of masking almost all patients, unless someone was presenting with an isolated ankle fracture or laceration.”
“Our hospital system has made the decision to test any patient that is being admitted to the hospital for COVID19 and that is because we have found so many patients that didn't meet initial criteria for testing.”
“One thing we learned for sure is that we cannot predict who does not have the disease. As a system we saw the disease in someone with appendicitis someone who broke their neck when they fell someone who was admitted to the ICU with urosepsis and like urine culture proven positive blood cultures positive.”
I think a recent article I wrote is germane to the topic/debate of whether there was a "novel virus" spreading in the world months before the lockdowns (and did this virus make huge numbers of people sick?)
I’ve reached the conclusion that tens of millions of people had already been infected by this novel virus before the lockdowns. To me, this proves this virus was NOT “deadly” as there would have been a huge number of Covid deaths by March 1 if this virus was as lethal as the experts said it was.
One way I’ve tried to prove or support my “early spread” hypothesis is by publishing some of the testimonials of people who think they had early cases. I’ve actually been saving many hundreds of these testimonials for almost four years. Yesterday, I just published excerpts from some of these testimonials.
I hope a few serious Covid researchers will at least skim these comments, which are very interesting and, I think, quite persuasive. Basically, when you have millions of people who think the same thing, this volume of anecdotes might actually be significant.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/no-ones-published-an-article-like?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Thanks, Bill! I know you've been working hard on this one for awhile. Valuable work for the historical record.
Thanks, Jessica. You got it. I did it for the "historical record." (Everything I do is for that record as I don't think I'm necessarily moving the needle in the here and now.)
I will have a look. You are clearly putting in the hours!
You might contact the office of Republican Joann Ariola, Chair of the Fire Committee. You are doing a "study on the response time of ambulances". There is a few of her committee meetings, one on finance, one on housing. Check the calendar. Maybe she can give you a commitment. Let me know.
As a reference point, Kory's 28-page curriculum vitae is available here: https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FLCCC-Alliance-member-CV-Kory.pdf
It starts with a 1-page narrative bio that says, "Dr. Kory has led ICU’s in multiple COVID-19 hotspots throughout the pandemic, having led his old ICU in New York City during their initial surge in May for 5 straight weeks, he then travelled to other COVID-19 hotspots to run COVID ICU’s in Greenville, South Carolina and Milwaukee, WI during their surges."
Yes, I have this in my files, thanks.
Re: NYC, he was there post-surge.
I was also curious if anyone wants to comment on his defense of remdesivir for early outpatient treatment. I am not familiar with the trial he is talking about that shows "profoundly positive" results if it is used early. I don't think it has ever been used at any scale for early treatment? Remdesivir is a drug that emerged from a highly connected group of people, such as the new CDC director, and I was surprised to see Dr. Kory defend it when it has such a bad reputation now. Perhaps that has to do with the ongoing litigation he mentioned in one of his comment sections where he apparently is acting as an expert witness to defend doctor's use of hospital protocols which he claims are poorly understood by social media.
He is all over the place, in my view.
I think the reason he is all over the place is that he won't allow himself to believe that his worldview of "medicine as savior" is wrong; he just thinks that some people were wrong in their practices, but that overall, "modern medicine" is superior to anything else.
Thank you for doing the transcriptions. It's doubtful I would watch all three videos. It's notable that Kory himself makes a couple claims far outside the mainstream. "Long Vax" Americans numbering potentially close to 3 million; and the virus as a bioweapon (released by the U.S. military, right?).
I'm not a video-watcher either...unless I'm transcribing or on a walk.
There are numerous challenges in what he has said -- challenges for him and challenges for the U.S. government.
Re: Dr. Kory's statement that he was hearing news of hospitals being overwhelmed in places like Detroit, New Orleans, and NYC
In the Detroit area in the spring of 2020, a journalist reported a false story about lots of young people on ventilators at a certain hospital. His source was second-hand info from someone who saw a post by a doctor making that claim. The doctor actually made up the story because he didn't think people were "taking the virus seriously enough," and the author of the article did not vet the info with the hospital before reporting it. His excuse was that he believed a doctor should be trusted, and that it was important to get the info out to the public as soon as possible. The hospital made its own statement that the info was completely false; there were no young people on ventilators in their hospital. The doctor was made to issue a public apology.
Do you have a link to the story?
I searched and actually found a link.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/beaumont-doc-apologizes-for-causing-fear-confusion-after-claiming-icu-full-of-young-adults
Here is the source that was sharing the fraudulent story as true, without vetting it.
In this "apology" piece, the author says, "On Friday night, Beaumont hospital issued a statement saying that 90 percent of the coronavirus patients in its eight hospitals were over the age of 40, which we included in the story." But that is misleading. He first shared the story *without any info from the hospital system* then added when it became available.
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/24735/correction_beaumont_doctor_apologizes_says_many_of_his_claims_about_coronavirus_were_exaggerated_and_untrue
Fair enough.
Still interested in your exciting research.
I'm fascinated by how different the new york experience was from other places. Right down to the demographics. Where else were 30 year olds so seriously ill? And why wasn't that seen when the virus was silently circulating for months before the wuhan outbreak. People found it to be a nasty flu. Nothing more
Indeed I did.
Followed on Housatonic and JJ Coucy.
Are you able to testify before the NYC Council?
Check their schedule and calendar.
They have various committees that might be useful like Public Safety or Fire or Environment or other related to your inquiry. Quite a variety.
I've considered signing up to speak at a public meeting, yes.
I don't live in NYC though and would need to be guaranteed I could speak. (I'm not doing the Zoom thing.)
https://nypost.com/2024/02/15/us-news/fbi-raids-fdny-headquarters-homes-of-fire-chiefs/
Why the FBI?
Because of the source of the funds? (Just guessing)
By the way, in completely unrelated news, did you hear the FDNY Chief Medical Officer recently refused my request for data from the publicly-funded study he led? 😉 https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/at-this-time-we-cannot-provide-this