John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© October 24, 2021
Since the MSM lies and issues propaganda for the FRAUDULENT
Biden Administration (and God help you – your news is derived from
the MSM), you may not have a clue of the meaning of Gain of Function (GoF)
Research relating to COVID and the Wuhan Institute of Virology whence every
expert NOT in the CCP pocket COVID came.
Here are two GoF explanations that even with the
science-talk might be simpler for the non-science layman to decipher in
understanding:
“Gain-of-function” is the euphemism
for biological research aimed at increasing the virulence and lethality of
pathogens and viruses. GoF research is government funded; its focus is on
enhancing the pathogens’ ability to infect different species and to increase
their deadly impact as airborne pathogens and viruses. Ostensibly, GoF research
is conducted for biodefense purposes. These experiments, however, are
extremely dangerous. Those deadly science-enhanced pathogens can, and do escape
into the community where they infect and kill people. What’s more, this line of
research can be used for biological warfare.
…
GoF experiments have neither
prevented a pandemic, nor provided useful information about safe and effective
pandemic countermeasures. Numerous prominent scientists argue that these
experiments deviate from morally justifiable research, and the experimentally
altered pathogens have put the entire human species at risk.
However, GoF research is defended
by a closed circle of scientists within government and those who are contracted
by government to conduct this line of research.
READ ENTIRETY - What
is Gain-of-Function Research & Who is at High Risk? ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION
(AHRP); 5/19/20
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Gain-of-function research refers to
the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility,
virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a
culture.
This is performed in a research
context to understand the way in which a pathogen adapts to environmental
pressures, allowing disease control measures to be better planned, and
potential vaccines and therapies to be explored. Gene editing technology such
as CRISPR may be utilized in combination with selective serial passaging to
investigate the role of specific genes on protein expression and ultimate
organism function.
…
The high replication and mutation
rate of viruses commonly leads to escape mutants, lineages that have acquired
changes to their genome that lessen or eliminate the affinity of natural or
vaccine-induced antibodies towards the virus, while not notably lowering
survival.
Most mutations a virus may acquire
are deleterious to virus function, though in some cases mutation can both
enhance virulence and allow better immune escape. … READ ENTIRETY - What
is Gain-of-Function Research? By Michael
Greenwood, M.Sc. Reviewed by Sophia
Coveney; News
Medical Life Sciences; Last Updated: 4/9/21
In an effort to cover its Globalist butt and probably
exposed LIAR Fauci, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has decided to
re-define GoF on their website. Just
The News evaluates the NIH science double-speak which you can
examine.
I am guessing many are unaware there was a moratorium of GoF
research on U.S. soil due to a series of research lab incidents in which
researchers were infected. According to Lancet
the moratorium was between 2014 – 2017. A host of government funded
alphabet science agencies lobbied to end the moratorium seeming led by the NIH
and National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB). AND surprise! The
NIH in 2017 announced resumption of GoF research. It doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to guess that GoF COVID must have been risky enough to transfer the
research to America’s military rival Communist China ending up at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology often used for CCP military bioweapon research. The CCP
government denies militarized bioweapon from Wuhan – DUH, what else would lying
Communists say? International Marxist-orient Globalist scientists downplay or
deny the Wuhan bioweapon – AGAIN DUH! And of course America’s Dem-Marxist CCP
puppets don’t you to believe your eyes believe what they tell you to believe.
Here’s some reading political control freaks would rather you avoid:
o Leaked
Chinese document reveals a sinister plan to ‘unleash’ coronaviruses - A
leaked 2015 government paper has revealed a discussion by top Chinese
scientists who said a virus could be “unleashed in way never seen before”; By
Riah Matthews;
news.com.au; 5/8/21 7:45PM
o RED
ALERT Covid is a BIOWEAPON that leaked from Wuhan lab during military
‘Frankenvirus’ tests, claims Chinese whistleblower; By Patrick Knox; The Sun; 6/3/21 19:19 ET UPDATED
6/4/21 5:06 ET
o Wuhan
Scientists Planned to Release Coronaviruses into Chinese Cave Bats 18 Months
Prior to Outbreak; By Human Events Staff; Human Events; 9/21/21
o COVID-19
Is A ‘Planned Bioweapon’ By The Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Report
Reveals; By OLIVIA
CAVALLARO; Christianity
Daily; 10/12/21 06:44 AM EDT
Let us do some thinking. LIAR Fauci said the NIH/NIHAID had
nothing to do with funding GoF at Wuhan. The NIH refutes Fauci. The NIH tries
to sanitize their view of GoF research in the dead of night. The Wuhan Lab is a
CCP bioweapon research facility. If you believe CCP military controlled had a
bio accident rather than a purposeful released exposure, I have wet-market
property I can sell cheap in Wuhan, China.
The USA has gone to war over far less intrusions into our
affairs. BUT the CCP did not control our bureaucracy, elected officials or
influence American corporations in those days.
I bring to some cross posts that essentially reflect Fauci
LIED and people DIED. Why do Americans trust and listen this creep?
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Rand Paul Was Right — Fauci Lied
“NIH … categorically has not funded gain-of-function
research.” Yes it has.
What Fauci
Lockdown Should Look Like
October 22, 2021
National Institutes of Health official Lawrence Tabak issued
a letter Wednesday admitting that the agency did indeed provide funding for
gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology via the U.S.
nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. That’s a big problem for more than one reason.
Tabak writes that NIH funding went to a “limited experiment”
in which a test was conducted to see if “spike proteins from naturally occurring
bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human
ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” The modified coronavirus did
make the mouse “become sicker” than the non-modified virus.
While Tabak avoids using the term “gain-of-function,” it is
clear from his descriptions that such research is exactly what he admits the
NIH funded. That the NIH was involved in funding gain-of-function research
should come as a surprise to no one, as Anthony Fauci himself had been a
longtime proponent of the controversial practice.
Back in 2012, Fauci argued in support to gain-of-function
research, contending:
“Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the
benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It
is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay
ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that
might appear to be risky.”
Fauci’s clearly favorable views of this research would also
explain why he chose not to alert White House officials in 2017 when he lifted
the ban on the practice. It also appears to explain why the NIH’s funding of
gain-of-function was not direct but funneled through EcoHealth Alliance, giving
Fauci the cover to later claim that the NIH was not directly involved in
funding gain-of-function research.
Yet when Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pressed Fauci over NIH
funding, an irate and contentious Fauci retorted: “You do not know what you are
talking about. … If anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you! … You are
entirely and completely incorrect. The NIH has not ever and does not now fund
gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Just in case someone wasn’t clear, Fauci added, “I will
repeat, the NIH … categorically has not funded gain-of-function research to be
conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
We knew this before, but now even the NIH is tacitly
admitting that Fauci lied not only to Senator Paul in sworn testimony but to
the American public. Fauci “never fully explain[ed] why [the experiments] are
not gain-of-function,” Paul observed.
“His declination is this: it’s inadvertent, we didn’t know they were going to
gain function. That is what a gain-of-function experiment is. You don’t know
when you combine two viruses that they will be more deadly but it might be. If
you have half a brain, you know if you combine two viruses it might be more
deadly. He’s been parsing words.”
Paul has referred Fauci to the Justice Department for
investigation, but given how the DOJ has been so politicized by the Biden
administration, don’t expect any real action will be taken to hold Fauci
accountable. Bureaucrats lying to the American people about the funding of
dangerous experimentation that may have resulted in the creation of a global pandemic responsible
for the deaths of millions gets little other than a shrug from the elites of
the Washington political class. Yet parents daring to protest school board
officials for pushing racist curriculum and radical leftist sexual ethics onto
their children will be targeted by the creation of an FBI task force. And
people wonder how an “America First” Washington outsider like Donald Trump was
able to get elected.
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Newly Released Documents Show NIH Funded Gain-of-Function
Research in China: Experts
This aerial view shows the
P4 laboratory (C) on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in
China's central Hubei province on May 27, 2020. (Hector
Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
October 22, 2021 Updated: October 22, 2021
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
funded research in China that created a more potent form of a bat coronavirus,
according to newly disclosed documents.
An experiment conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
situated near where the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, compared mice
infected with the original bat coronavirus to mice infected with a modified
strain created by researchers, according to the documents.
The mice infected with the modified version “became sicker
than those infected” with the original version, Lawrence Tabak, the principal
deputy director at the NIH, told lawmakers in letters (pdf) on Oct. 20.
The “limited experiment” was aimed at seeing if “spike
proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were
capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model,” Tabak wrote,
adding that the “unexpected result” was not “something that the researchers set
out to do.”
Whether intended or not, the research fits the definition of
gain-of-function, some experts say.
“The genetic manipulation of both MERS and the SARS
conducted in Wuhan clearly constituted gain-of-function experiments,” Jonathan
Latham, executive director of The Bioscience Research Project, told The Epoch
Times in an email. “Further, it is absurd of NIH to describe the enhanced viral
pathogenicity that was observed in the experiments they funded as ‘unexpected’
when clearly these experiments were expressly designed to detect increased
pathogenicity.”
The NIH “corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director
Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function
research in Wuhan,” Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist with Rutgers
University, wrote on Twitter.
The newly released documents primarily consist of the fifth
and final progress report (pdf) for the series of grants. The report was submitted on
Aug. 3, over two years after the research concluded.
EcoHealth’s final report also contained a description of
experimenting on clones of MERS-CoV, a virus that caused an outbreak in the
Middle East in 2012 and has a mortality rate of approximately 35 percent,
according to the World Health Organization.
The scientists said they used a “similar reverse genetics
strategy” that they utilized in studies of the bat coronaviruses and, after
constructing a “full-length infectious clone of MERS-CoV,” they replaced the
receptor binding domain of the virus with domains from various strains of
coronaviruses identified in bats from southern China.
Jack Nunberg, a virologist and director of the Montana
Biotechnology Center at the University of Montana, told The Epoch Times in an
email that both viruses use the same receptor protein.
“By keeping to the same receptor protein, I’d label the
experiment overly risky (due to the pathogenic backbone and their previous
findings of increased virulence in some chimeras) but not blatantly”
gain-of-function, he said.
Both Dr. Francis Collins, the outgoing director of the NIH, and Dr. Anthony
Fauci, who heads the agency’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), have denied the agency has funded
gain-of-function research in China.
“Neither NIH nor NIAID have ever approved any grant that
would have supported ‘gain-of-function’ research on coronaviruses that would
have increased their transmissibility or lethality for humans,” Collins said in
a May statement.
The term generally refers to any research that increases the
pathogenicity or transmissibility of a biological agent like a virus.
The research in question was funded through millions of dollars of grants from the NIH to
EcoHealth Alliance, which then funneled money to the lab in Wuhan.
The NIH has repeatedly declined to make documents concerning
the research public, only disclosing many after being sued or pressured by
members of Congress.
“Thanks to the hard work of the Oversight Committee
Republicans, we now know that American taxpayer dollars funded gain-of-function
research at the Wuhan lab,” House Oversight Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.)
told The Epoch Times in an email.
The documents were sent to the Comer and Rep. Cathy
McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce
Committee.
The NIH says a review of EcoHealth’s research plan before it
allocated the funding determined it did not fit the definition of research
involving “enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential” because the bat
coronaviruses “had not been shown to infect humans.” However, “out of an
abundance of caution,” language in the terms and conditions of the grant award
stated that a secondary review would be triggered by multiple scenarios,
including EcoHealth reporting a one log, or 10-time increase, in growth.
Dr. Francis Collins,
director of the National Institutes of Health, appears before a Senate hearing
to discuss vaccines, in Washington, on Sept. 9, 2020. (Michael
Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images)
“This means EcoHealth should have reported if any of the
viruses being tested turned out to grow 10 times faster or more than the
control virus would without their new spike proteins,” an NIH spokesperson told
The Epoch Times in an email.
EcoHealth failed to abide by conditions of the grant, Tabak
said, and was notified that it has five days from Oct. 20 to submit to NIH all
unpublished data from the experiments and work conducted under the award.
Presented with the accusation by some that the new documents
show Fauci and Collins lied to Congress, the NIH spokesperson said that the
allegation is incorrect.
The challenge appears to revolve around different
definitions of gain-of-function research. The NIH has defined it as research that is “reasonably
anticipated to confer attributes to … viruses such that the resulting virus has
enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility (via the respiratory route) in
mammals.” Its parent office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
defines “enhanced potential pandemic pathogens” in a framework (pdf)
as a highly transmissible and highly virulent pathogen that is enhanced through
research.
“While the findings of this limited experiment in mice were
somewhat unexpected, NIAID reviewed the progress report and has determined that
the research described in the progress report would not have triggered a review
under the HHS P3CO Framework because the bat coronaviruses used in this
research have not been shown to infect humans and the experiments were not
reasonably expected to increase transmissibility or virulence in humans,” the
spokesperson said.
The grant is suspended while the NIH conducts a review that
includes working with EcoHealth to get more information about its
noncompliance.
EcoHealth has not responded to requests for comment,
including questions sent last month after another set of documents, detailing other work the
nonprofit funded with U.S. taxpayer money, were made public.
The fresh disclosures add to the concern about government
transparency, Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right to Know, told
The Epoch Times in an email.
“It has been obvious for decades that our federal government
is not transparent enough, that there is not nearly enough congressional
oversight and that the Freedom of Information Act badly needs strengthening. We
citizens need better transparency tools to uncover all sorts of corruption,
mismanagement, waste, fraud, abuse of power, and impending disasters,” he said,
adding that NIH in particular has an “abysmal” track record of being
transparent.
“Even if the research EcoHealth conducted under the National
Institutes of Health grant does not precisely fit the definition of
gain-of-function, which is for scientists and not policy analysts to decide,
government transparency certainly required the NIH to reveal this information
at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this point, it is obvious
that the NIH and other government health agencies require reform and far more
intensive oversight by Congress, and in some cases outright abolition,”
added S.T. Karnick, publications director at The Heartland Institute.
Jeff Carlson contributed to this
report.
Zachary Stieber covers U.S.
news, including politics and court cases. He started at The Epoch Times as a
New York City metro reporter.
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Unvaccinated Hospital Staff Only Ones Telling the Truth
Regarding Vaccine Injuries as They Prepare to Leave the Medical System
California
Hospital Workers Preparing
to Strike. Image source.
By Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News
October 22, 2021
We are looking at a total breakdown and failure of America’s
hospital system.
Ethical nurses and doctors are being censored and fired,
while those who remain face horrific work conditions due to shortages of staff,
and many of them are about to go on strike in California and other places.
The unvaccinated nurses and hospital staff who have not yet
left, are coming forward to describe the horror scenes they are witnessing in
the hospitals, where the majority of the patients now are fully vaxxed and
suffering terrible side effects from the vaccines.
And all of this, other than the coming strikes, is being
censored in the pharma-owned corporate media.
The Conejo Guardian, a non-profit independent news
publication in Ventura County, California, has just published an article from
hospital staff whistleblowers stating that doctors are covering up COVID-19
vaccine injuries, and failing to report them to VAERS.
“They don’t want to report that they’re seeing 80 percent of
the people in the ER are vaccinated, but only 40 percent of the county is
vaccinated,” says one nurse.
Ventura County Nurses Blow the Whistle on Crisis in Local
Health Care
by Joel Kilpatrick
The Conejo Guardian
Excerpts:
Ventura County nurses from different sectors and
specialties are coming forward to blow the whistle on what they deem serious
lapses in local health care practices, mostly related to COVID-related
protocols, “vaccine” mandates and politically and financially motivated bullying
of medical staff, which these health care workers say is seriously compromising
the general quality of local care.
The Guardian spoke with multiple nurses of various ages and
at different stages in their careers, all of whom work in medical care settings
or hospitals in Ventura County. Each preferred to speak under a pseudonym for
now. Each described seriously declining standards of care, atmospheres of
intimidation and fear in hospitals, and distrust and disillusionment among
medical professionals.
“Before COVID, nurses, staff and
the community were confident in treatment modalities and in doctors’
competencies,” says one nurse. But now, “People are confused.”
“They’re very confused,” agrees
a veteran Ventura County nurse. “I think doctors are confused. … I don’t think
the community’s confident. I’m not. … Because where’s the truth?”
Most shocking, perhaps, is how doctors and administrators
refuse to report the rising number of unexplained medical problems in otherwise
healthy people as potential adverse reactions to COVID-19 experimental vaccine
shots.
To suggest that these shots are the cause of any medical
problem — or that they are contributing to the alarming rise in
non-COVID-related hospital populations — invites professional ridicule.
“Nobody is considering that
[these medical problems] could be vaccine-related,” says an ICU nurse in a
county hospital.
“It’s not even in question. You
might as well say you want to start treating people with crystals and burning
sage. If you say it’s the vaccine, they look at you and say, ‘It’s the safest
thing ever produced. Why would you say that?’”
Yet, doctors are at a loss to explain the increase in
non-COVID-related ailments, including a reported increase in heart attacks in
young people, mainly men, who received the COVID-19 vaccines.
Doctors “just chalk it up to genes,” one nurse says.
‘Bury the Bodies in the Parking Lot’
When nurse Daniel first heard of the novel coronavirus
spreading in China in December 2019, he immediately bought N95 masks for his
family. His superiors told him to prepare for a “worst-case scenario.”
“I made a video to each of my
kids and my wife, just in case,” he says.
“[Our hospital was] saying,
‘Every floor will have ventilators. There’s not enough PPE. Nurses and doctors
are dying in Italy. Somebody’s going to have to bury the bodies in the parking
lot because that’s how many people are going to die.’
That’s the picture they painted,
all these people you respect and have gone to school a lot longer than I have
and have accolades by their names.”
Daniel sent his wife and kids to live elsewhere for a month
and a half while he prepared to handle the rush of dead and dying. What
happened next, he says, was that “nobody came.”
“I was getting called off a
shift almost every other week because there was such a low patient population
in the hospital,” he says.
“Not only did ventilators not
happen, but we had only six COVID patients in our ICU. The hospital had
canceled all these elective surgeries, and we were not getting even a tenth of
the ventilated patients they said it would be. Not even close.”
Initial predictions were so off that “it was like they
carried the zero several times. That’s the magnitude.”
But by spring 2021, “an interesting thing” happened, he
says. In the wake of widespread vaccinations, the number of non-COVID patients
“really started picking up.”
“Pneumonia cases, stroke cases,”
he says. “We’ve had more strokes than normal. Women in particular with venous
sinus embolisms.
We’re seeing a lot of autoimmune
issues: rashes on the body, the body attacking the nervous system, producing
symptoms like a weakening of the muscles.”
One patient came in with severe respiratory distress and
went into respiratory failure, with symptoms first showing three weeks after he
took the Pfizer shot.
“His lungs were completely
destroyed, totally wrecked,” says Daniel. “He had ground-glass opacity on the
CAT scan, which is a hallmark of COVID.”
The patient’s doctors insisted it was an exceedingly rare
condition, though the man had never suffered respiratory distress before. When
the man’s wife brought up the possibility of vaccine-related damage, the doctor
simply said, “No.”
“It was a non-starter to the
discussion,” Daniel says. “He did not want to talk to her about it. It was just
crazy talk [to him].”
One fit, healthy nurse in her twenties whom Daniel knows
went into cardiac arrest three weeks after she received the Pfizer shot. An
aortic dissection ruptured a portion of her aorta like a balloon.
She was resuscitated, underwent open-heart surgery and made
a full recovery. But she could not abide the suggestion that the COVID vaccine
shots had caused it.
“She said, ‘It’s not possible.
It’s not the vaccine,’” Daniel says of the woman.
“She’s petite and doesn’t have
any condition that would lead to this. … Sometimes you can’t accept information
because it’s affecting you on a deeply emotional level. People don’t want to
admit they were wrong — they were fooled. Some have staked their lives on this
decision, and nothing’s going to change that.”
Adverse reactions among those who took one of the vaccines
continue, he says, but go virtually unreported.
“If you look at our hospital’s
reporting on adverse reactions, this vaccine would have no adverse reactions,”
he says.
No VAERS Reporting
Angela, a nurse for more than 25 years, confirms that in her
hospital’s emergency room, they say they are seeing more heart problems in
young adults, which are never reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting
System (VAERS) as potential adverse reactions to COVID “vaccinations.”
Another nurse, Jennifer, says ER nurses privately say they
are seeing:
“all the clotting, bleeding and
things you would expect from the vaccine six months later — brain bleeds, heart
attacks in younger 50-year-olds. No doctor will admit this is from the vaccine.
They won’t make the VAERS report.”
When Daniel asked fellow nurses and practitioners if they
report to VAERS, they looked at him like, “What’s that?”
“I’ve seen people in their thirties
[with these problems], and the doctor’s just like, ‘Oh, you have s—y genes,’”
he says. “I’m like, are you kidding me?”
All nurses interviewed say they are seeing “ground-glass
opacity” results in the CT scans of people’s lungs who recently took the experimental
vaccines — and that this is never reported to VAERS.
“Doctors and intensivists [treat
it like] a ludicrous thought,” says one ICU nurse. “Nobody is putting it on
their differential diagnosis.”
‘Voodoo Statistics’
For that and other reasons, COVID-related data amounts to
what one nurse calls “voodoo statistics.” In her particular unit and others,
they are no longer testing everybody for COVID. Rather, they began testing
only those who are symptomatic — with shortness of breath, for example — and
those who say they are unvaccinated.
Why?
“They don’t want their numbers
to skyrocket when all the vaccinated people come in,” says Jennifer.
“Or they don’t want to report
that they’re seeing 80 percent of the people in the ER are vaccinated, but only
40 percent of the county is vaccinated,” adds another nurse.
“That’s an odd statistic. … Is
there an adverse effect occurring from these shots that’s not being reported?
If they’re not screening people ubiquitously, there’s a slant to whatever
numbers are coming in. That stuff is not going to be elucidated in the data.”
But with “vaccinated” people increasingly hospitalized with
actual COVID or adverse reactions, the way forward becomes murkier.
“These vaccines are
non-sterilizing. They allow you to carry and transmit the virus,” points out
one nurse. “It does not solve the contagion issue. The virus is still spreading
among the vaccinated.”
For example, in a recent group of COVID patients at one
hospital, the sickest ones were double-vaccinated.
“The first to die had both
Pfizer shots,” says Daniel, who took care of the patient. “Another guy who had
both shots died as well. His lungs were destroyed.”
“But they’re not talking about
that,” confirms another nurse.
Related:
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Medical Bullying
In the meantime, “Everybody’s getting browbeaten and told
they are going to lose their livelihoods” if they don’t receive the vaccines,
one hospital nurse says.
“A lot of nurses at the hospital
just said, ‘Fine,’ [and took the vaccine], because nobody wants to lose their
job,” says Susan, a nurse with more than 30 years of experience.
“But since when in the history
of the country have we ever been mandated to do anything like this?”
“Unvaccinated” medical staff also are accused of being
“carriers” or of being physically unfit to perform, and in at least one case,
one nurse was berated by a doctor in front of colleagues.
“They do this to people like me
who don’t want the vaccine,” Angela says.
“They are discriminating against
people who refuse the vaccine. They put us down. Pretty much, they’ve been
brainwashed.”
One benefit of being tested regularly, says one nurse who
will not take the vaccine, is that when “vaccinated” co-workers acquire COVID,
they can’t blame their “unvaccinated” colleagues.
“I can always say, ‘Hey, I have
my negative [test]. You didn’t get it from me,’” says this nurse.
“Because that’s what the media’s
saying, right? [But in reality] this is not a pandemic of the unvaccinated,
because you’re not getting it from me because we’re being tested multiple times
a week.”
‘Alone and Afraid’
Ironically, vaccinated nurses in non-COVID units remain
“terrified” of COVID-positive patients, say a number of nurses. “They’re
freaked out. Freaked out,” according to one. As a result, they combine the
day’s care into one or two visits, suiting up, ducking in and leaving as
quickly as possible.
“The patient is left in the room
for the majority of the time alone and afraid,” says Jennifer.
“That’s someone who shouldn’t be
alone and afraid.”
During the early days of the viral outbreak in 2020, a
number of patients came in with non-COVID-related medical problems, tested
positive for COVID and were placed on the COVID floor, sometimes to die, one
nurse says.
“A young person was admitted to
the hospital for something completely unrelated to COVID. Some type of
autoimmune bowel issue,” this nurse remembers.
She then tested positive for COVID and was placed on the
COVID floor.
Her condition worsened, and “Nothing was really done” until
she went into cardiac arrest and died.
The oversight and advocacy that used to exist:
“is not there anymore because
you have that COVID documentation, that positivity, and you’re just put on the
floor and left to your own devices,” Daniel says.
“This was a young person, very
young and didn’t need to die, but because she had this COVID diagnosis,
everyone was, ‘Fine, whatever, whatever.’ She died not from COVID but from
nobody treating what she was suffering from.”
Lack of family advocates has led to worse outcomes.
“You bet your butt that if
someone’s mom was in there, she would have said, ‘What’s going on? We should
run some tests,’” this nurse says.
“How many people have died in
the hospitals because no one was there to advocate for them?”
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