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Unbelievable deceit on every level.

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NYC H+H should explain why Elmhurst's occupancy data appears to differ across sources, for the month available in each source (i.e., what they provided me, HDNY's facility data, and the federal HHS facility file).

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If you open the Excel file and do a simple sort, it'll become very clear (even more clear than the quarterly summaries indicate) that the lowest daily occupancy numbers, for both non-ICU and ICU beds, occurred in 2020.

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And, it would be worthwhile to send the Excel file on to the reporters at the NY Times and elsewhere who covered the Elmhurst story that.

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Saw that thread and kept it. Your work on this is important and the best out there- by quite a distance.

It is not getting out to enough people- not even close.

Twitter threads and articles on substack will not get this important information to the public at-large. Not cutting it JH. I'm challenging you to bring this to a wider audience- with a deep and abiding respect for what you are doing.

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And yet they have one of the worst first waves in the world. First wave of "what" is the question... doesn't seem like a cold virus w similar or lower IFR than the flu could be responsible. And now we know it wasn't hospital overcrowding (the empty hospital ship and central park tents agree).

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Tick tock. Only a matter of time before the full truth is disclosed.

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🤞

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First wave of exuberant use of ventilators (and associated drug cocktail) plus perhaps underuse of pneumonia related drugs.

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And maybe neglect. It seems like Covid patients were basically sealed in their rooms, isolated from family and even staff. Staff were hesitant to go in because they were told the virus would kill them.

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And shame/guilt and fear are barriers to people talking about it.

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This is an incredibly important piece of work. I am seeing it weeks after you published the article. This has to be known by everyone.

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Interesting material, which provides the beginnings of an outline of Elmhurst's activity in March 2020. Looking at the ER data, we see that the first quarter of 2020 was comparable to previous years in terms of ER visits. What would be ideal would be data on triage level - if 2020 saw more or less patients in serious or critical condition than in other years.

For ICU, a similar dataset would be ideal - this would probably be called Apache score, which is a measure of severity of critical illness. Another surrogate marker for severity would be percentage of intubated patients. The problem with using intubation percentage is the departure from normal practice in 2020, when intubations were carried out on patients who were less ill than would have been the case in 2016-2019.

One observation of the ICU occupancy graph is that the largest rise in ICU occupancy for the 2016-2020 period occurred in March-April 2020. This is followed by an impressive drop in occupancy in May/June 2020. Does y-axis refer to percentage occupancy? Or is this number of patients?

You have illustrated that sheer patient volume in ER and ICU was not the issue at Elmhurst in the first quarter of 2020

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Wasn't the issue in the second quarter either.

Excel file is appended above for download, but the total bed occupancy rankings are also relevant:

https://twitter.com/EWoodhouse7/status/1644025126969548801?s=20

Regarding ICU occupancy "rise" - note that the "rise" followed a significant drop in non-ICU occupancy and is likely due to bed-status reassignment. https://twitter.com/EWoodhouse7/status/1643336428942655488?s=20

There was no sign of a deadly virus "spreading" either gradually or suddenly prior to human interventions.

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It’s number of beds occupied, not %

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Clarification/correction: In one tweet you stated- "H+H provided daily occupancy numbers, but said staffed bed data is available b/c it's "stored on a legacy software system" and "would require creating a new record."

I think you meant "staffed bed available [is not] available."

Is that correct?

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Yes. Will amend.

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Typo:

"...and the subject Erin Marie Olzsweski’s book Undercover Epicenter Nurse and video about working as a travel..."

Should be:

"and the subject of Erin Marie..."

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Thank you for compiling this info.

This seems to fit with what Jason Goodman of CrowdSourceTheTruth discovered when he took his video camera to Elmhurst to investigate (I'm pretty sure this was during the time the #FilmYourHospital was going on and everyone was taking their cameras to their local hospitals to fact-check the media). I just tried to search for the video Jason did on Elmhurst, but I couldn't find it (looks like he's on the 8th version of his channel, so I think his videos have been getting taken down).

Anyway, Jason went to check out Elmhurst shortly after there was a big story with Dr. Colleen Smith filming inside Elmhurst Hospital, saying that it was an "apocalyptic scene" with "bodies piling up everywhere." Of course when Jason went there, it didn't seem like much of anything was going on--no signs of busyness or urgency, just quiet, nothing seemed to be going on.

Also, according to Jason, it was the NYT story on Dr. Colleen Smith's report that set the "deadly virus" narrative, as that story was picked up by new sites around the world. Jason did some investigating into Dr. Colleen Smith and found that she was a self-professed specialist in "medical simulations," so Jason questioned whether that's what she was doing.

I'll try to send your info to Jason and maybe he can share it with his audience.

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Wow! They weren't just lower, but significantly lower and have stayed lower. Why have doctors and nurses claimed that they were absolutely slammed during that period when they clearly weren't? Did they have fewer staff which made it seem like they were slammed?

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I did not request staff numbers, but did request staffed beds. See the twitter thread for what they said about that.

There were a number of reasons staff may have felt overwhelmed, but none has to do with the hospital experiencing very high patient volumes.

My point has always been that Americans were given a VERY different impression in spring 2020 - with NYC in particular.

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Thank you for all the time and effort invested to get out this information. Could you clarify how this data would relate to the huge spike in icu hospitilizations i seem to recall from your twitter?

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Hi. You’re welcome

There was not a huge spike in ICU hospitalizations, so I’m trying to think of what you might be thinking if.

Deaths?

Calls to EMS?

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Deaths it was. So the pattern would be the appearance of a purported pandemic which does not show itself in icu occupancies but does correspond timewise to a spike in deaths that really are iatrogenic but were attributed to covid?

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Thanks for reminding me about this. I had forgotten.

Good example of "hush money"/anticipatory bribery

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