Fact Check of claims made in Tucker Carlson's interview of Dr. Pierre Kory, President of the FLCCC

OUTLINE

PLANDEMIC BACKGROUND

DR. PIERRE KORY BACKGROUND

-FLCCC President

-Doctor Kory has a large amount of excess death compared to his peers.

-Association with Paul Mayo and “End of Life” decisions and methods.

TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEW FACT CHECKS

-Excess mortality showed up after the vaccines.

-Ventilators were part of the “Protocol.”

-Ventilators were not the main problem; lack of early treatment was.

-Ivermectin science was extremely inconvenient to the interests of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.

-Dr. Kory is a truth-teller who can be trusted.

REFERENCES

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PLANDEMIC BACKGROUD

A growing number of medical professionals, including Dr. Michael Yeadon, have reported there was no such thing as a viral Pandemic. (16).

Drs. Sam and Mark Bailey have broken down the fraudulent methods used to generate the fictitous SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence in China. (31). SARS-CoV-2 has never existed in human blood in the sequence uploaded to GenBank. This sequence was generated by computers that sliced up all materials found in the lung fluid samples of hospitalized patients with pneumonia in China into the tiniest pieces. The computer programs then reassembled these tiny “contigs” into a predetermined “coronavirus” template and discarded the rest of the material that did not fit the coronavirus template- a techique the Baileys describe as building something out of Legos.

Meaningless positive “COVID” PCR tests subsequently formed the backbone of “COVID” statistics that falsely claimed what did and did not “cure COVID.” None of these statistics are valid because “COVID” does not exist. PCR tests amplify tiny bits of genetic material from human samples and compare them to a genetic sequence that is generated from common materials such as bacteria and human DNA in the lung fluid samples of hospitalized pneumonia patients in China- almost certainly bacterial pneumonia.

Pawpaws, quail, and goats tested positive for “COVID” in a country that dared to question and test Science instead of blindly following it. (27). The medical community does not have a clue what minute particles the PCR tests amplify, where those particles came from originally, or what their role is in the human body. A positive “COVID” PCR test does not identify a disease or a disease symptom. Many of the “COVID” positive cases were said to be “asymptomatic.”

While foundational theories of virology are still in question, it is a relatively simple thing to prove with macro data that deaths assigned to “COVID” should instead be assigned to Hospital Homicides, vaccines, and other causes of death, and that not one person in the world has died from “COVID.”

Stastical analysis promoted by the FLCCC has been used as a weak and false alibi for Doctors and Hospitals that have killed their patients. The FLCCC compares the tremendous disparity in death rates between Hospitals using “COVID” protocols to the death rates of Doctors in private practice using “early treatment” methods. Although “early treatment” of flu-like symptoms is a sound medical practice, the FLCCC deceptively frames the disparity in death rates as “early treatments save lives” instead of “Hospitals killed their patients.” A Doctor who perhaps has more “COVID” deaths on his hands than any other Doctor in the country just happens to be President of the FLCCC.

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DOCTOR PIERRE KORY BACKGROUND

Prior to attending Medical School at St. George’s University in Grenada from 1998-2002 (34), Dr. Kory was Project Director and Project Coordinator of a campaign to increase vaccination rates among people receiving Medicaid for the CDC of the City of New York from 1995 to 1998. (33)

Later during the “COVID” Plandemic, incentives to reduce the Medicaid debt burden in the state of New York by killing patients receiving Medicaid appears to be a major factor in the “COVID death spike” in the Spring of 2020 in New York, in my estimation. I intend to report New York’s Medicaid death program further, but for now will only reference Michael Dowling’s role in the state of New York’s two Medicaid Redesign Teams- in 2011 as Director of New York’s Health and Human Services, and in 2021 as Northwell Health’s CEO (36, 37).

FLCCC President

In December 2020, Dr. Pierre Kory testified to the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that his patients were dying at a high rate. Also in December 2020, Dr. Pierre Kory was named President of the FLCCC, the “Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.”

Association with Paul Mayo and “End of Life” decisions and methods.

Dr. Kory writes of a lengthy experience in “end of life” decisions and “terminal weans.” (3, 39.) (11) Dr. Kory’s self-described mentor, Dr. Paul Mayo of Northwell Health, advised Dr. Kory that people would question his “end of life” decisions less after moving from New York to Wisconsin. (2).

Dr. Paul Mayo runs a ventilator training program for Northwell Health, (7) and is “Director of Critical Care Education” at Northwell Health (40). Northwell Health had an extremely high death rate among ventilated “COVID” patients in the Spring of 2020 at around 88% (8,10). Data on Northwell Health’s ventilator death rates and totals are not available after the Spring of 2020. One mother has filed criminal charges against Northwell Health for the murder of her daughter in September 2021. (32).

In Spring 2020, Dr. Pierre Kory returned from Wisconsin to his “old ICU” at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, (1) then moved on to several other ICUs (9). I believe Dr. Kory presented himself as an expert advisor on ventilator methods to these ICUs. Dr. Kory has “long taught taught the management of acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation to medical students, residents, and fellows.” (4).

Doctor Kory has a large amount of excess death compared to his peers.

There is a huge disparity in death rates between doctors who use different treatment methods on their so-called “COVID” patients. Dr. Kory’s “COVID” death rate and death quantity, although undisclosed, can only be much higher than Dr. Mary Bowden’s death rate and quantity, for instance. Dr. Mary Bowden has treated over 5,500 patients with a positive “COVID” PCR test at BreatheMD in Houston without a single loss of life. Ivermectin was one of several substances used by Dr. Bowden along with hydroxychloroquine and monoclonal antibodies, based on the availability of these substances.

On the other hand, FLCCC President Dr. Pierre Kory describes at length using ventilators and high doses of opioids, resulting in a high but undisclosed number of fatalities (6, 12). For each positive “COVID” test, “COVID” admission, dose of Remdesivir, use of Mechanical Ventilator, and “COVID” death, the Hospitals where Dr. Kory was employed would have received payments from the Federal government (18).

Doctor Kory has not disclosed how many of his “COVID” patients who died received Remdesivir before or during their stays in his ICUs. Typically hospitals administer Remdesiver to patients before entering ICUs, causing their health to deteriorate, which formed a basis for intentsive care. Remdesivir victims are subsequently moved to ICUs where they are ventilated and heavily sedated, causing multiple organ failure, blood clots, bacterial pneumonia, etc, before they are “terminally weaned” with opioid overdoses. (13).

Dr. Kory describes the practice of heavily sedating ventilatated patients with opioids as “synchronizing” them. (5). Dr. Kory says that an average of 10-20% of ventilated patients died in ICUs, but did not specify if this statistic was an estimate of ventilator death rates before or during the “COVID” Plandemic. (35).

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TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEW FACT CHECKS

Tucker Carlson published an interview of Dr. Pierre Kory on March 13, 2024. The full interview is below. I will fact check some claims made by Tucker Carlson and Dr. Kory in this section.

FACT CHECK: KORY: Excess mortality showed up after the vaccines.

Around the 2:00 minute mark, Dr. Kory states “that vaccination rollout is when all of the numbers started going sideways. The excess mortality started to skyrocket.” Kory quotes statistical analysis by Ed Dowd.

DETERMINATION: FALSE. Although “excess mortality” may or may not have been easily discernable by the statistical analysis methods used by Dennis Rancourt, Edward Dowd and the like in their analysis- researchers who claim that “excess mortality” did not show up until after the mass vaccination campaign- Dr. Kory was a witness to and a participant in “excess mortality” in Hospitals prior to the mass vaccination campaign.

Dr. Kory testified to the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in December 2020, and later that day told Fox 5 DC (12), that he noticed a huge increase in mortality in ICUs in 2020 prior to the rollout of the vaccines. The state of New York also reported a massive increase in deaths due to “COVID” in the Spring of 2020 prior to the rollout of the vaccines (29). Although “COVID” vaccines have certainly greatly increased death rates falsified as “COVID” deaths, the same is true of Hospitals using deadly “COVID” protocols attended by Dr. Pierre Kory prior to the rollout of the “COVID” vaccines.

FACT CHECK: CARLSON: Ventilators were part of the “Protocol.”

Carlson asked Dr. Pierre Kory at the 27:15 mark: “What did you think of the… I mean, for a while my impression is that putting people on respirators was part of the protocol?” Kory: “Well, yeah, you know, that’s tr… uhh, a little bit of a… there’s definitely more nuance than that.”

DETERMINATION: UNCLEAR. No document or testimony exists that the government has developed a protocol to use ventilators on COVID patients, although the role of the research financed by Anthony Fauci at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern on methods to create death by bacterial pneumonia and ventilators deserves much closer scrutiny. (15).

To a large extent, ventilator protocols appear to have been largely developed by Doctors in hospitals such as Dr. Pierre Kory and his mentor Dr. Paul Mayo. Doctor Kory describes himself as a “ventilator geek” who has long been “fascinated” with ventilators. (30).

Dr. Kory was employed in some capacity in multiple ICUs in 2020 (9). Dr. Kory says that he was “running” at least one ICU in Spring 2020 (41, 42). Dr. Kory writes that h has advised and trained other medical professionals on how to use ventilators. (4). Dr. Kory’s employment at multiple ICUs in 2020, his history of training medical professionals on how to use ventilators, and his description of “running” at least one ICU suggests to me that Dr. Kory advised medical professionals in multiple ICUs in 2020 on how to use ventilators, and that the “COVID” death tolls in these ICUs are largely Dr. Kory’s responsibility.

The techniques by which hospitals used Remdesivir, Opioids, and Ventilators to cause death in hospitalized “COVID” patients, and the financial incentives these Hospitals received to cause death are topics that demand investigation by Congress, the Department of Justice, and State Attorneys General.

FACT CHECK: KORY: Ventilators were not the main problem; lack of early treatment was.

Around the 27:00 mark, Dr. Kory states “So definitely I think ventilators were overused. Umm, but that wasn’t definitely in my opinion the main problem. The main problem with that was not treating.” This is a position that Dr. Kory has stated more plainly on Substack. (26).

DETERMINATION: FALSE. Ventilators were beyond all doubt one of the main problems that drove “COVID” deaths, along with Remdesivir and high doses of Opioids.

Ventilators and Opioids severely suppressed the metabolism and immune system of individuals, which in conjuction with Remdesivir, created untreated bacterial pneumonia and multiple organ failure on a large scale. Dr. Kory has created a false alibi for himself that “early treatments save lives.” While it is true that the use of “early treatments” such as Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin C, and other common treatments resulted in negligible death rates of people with positive “COVID” PCR tests, the sad fact is that the methods used by Doctors like Pierre Kory were killing their patients, and there is simply no excuse for it. Comparisons of the huge disparity in death rates using “early treatments” to “Hospital Protocols” do not prove that “early treatments save lives;” they prove that Hospitals killed “COVID” patients for government subsidies.

FACT CHECK: Ivermectin science was extremely inconvenient to the interests of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.

DETERMINATION: TRUE. Ivermectin was effective in saving the lives of hospitalized “COVID” patients. Dr. Mary Bowden reported that Ivermectin saved the lives of hospitalized “COVID” patients at a high rate, and that those who were denied Ivermectin by a Court all died. (14). A study on what Ivermectin treated in these hospitalized “COVID” patients has not been done yet. Upon information and belief, Ivermectin almost certainly reversed effects of bacterial pneumonia. Dr. Kory said that by the time he received patients in ICUs, he could not turn them around, which is a falsehood. (12).

Blaming bacterial pneumonia deaths on a virus is not new. Anthony Fauci co-published a paper that described deaths caused by bacterial pneumonia in the “Spanish Flu” of 1918. (17). President Trump has stated on multiple occasions that he saved the world from another “Spanish Flu” by authorizing “Warp Speed” to generate mRNA vaccines to treat a “virus,” a narrative likely fed to him by Anthony Fauci, while Fauci knew the whole time that deaths from “Spanish Flu” were due to bacterial pneumonia.

Beginning in January 2018, Anthony Fauci funded a study at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago to determine how deaths from bacterial pneumonia could be generated from the use of ventilators. Although Feinberg’s study enrollment began in June 2018, it ran through March 2022 during the “COVID” period, where Feinberg determined that almost half the “COVID” patients they studied had bacterial pneumonia. Feinberg further determined that the “cytokine storm” associated with “COVID” did not exist. (20, 21, 24, 38). One of Feinberg’s main findings was that the longer the length of stay on ventilators, the higher the rate of bacterial pneumonia. (22). Dr. Pierre Kory has said that he managed to keep his patients on ventilators for a long period of time. (25). Thus it is likely that a large number of Dr. Kory’s “COVID” deaths were due to untreated bacterial pneumonia, along with his “end of life” “terminal weans” practices by deliberately overdosing his patients on opioids after their health sytematically degraded under his care.

Doctor Kory has said that deaths of ventilated “COVID” patients were not driven by bacterial pneumonia and has defended the practice of not prescribing antibiotics to ventilated “COVID” patients because he claims that they had “viral pneumonia.” (19).

FACT CHECK: CARLSON: Dr. Kory is a truth-teller who can be trusted.

In his introduction to his interview with Dr. Kory, Tucker Carlson says that Kory is “someone who bravely told the truth regardless of the cost to himself personally,” and is a “responsible science-based person who has practiced medicine for a decade, and what (he says) can be trusted.”

DETERMINATION: FALSE. Doctor Kory has a strong incentive to create false medical alibis to defend his horrific medical record. Doctor Kory’s medical record includes a large but undisclosed amount of falsely-assigned “COVID” deaths that truly resulted from Ventilators, Opioids, and also likely Remdesivir before admission to his ICUs. Doctor Kory misrepresented the cause of “COVID” deaths as “lack of early treatment” instead of a result of Hospital Protocols including Remdesivir, Ventilators and Opioids to the United States Senate on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in December 2020- a crime under 18 USC 1001. (28). Dr. Kory could have saved the lives of countless numbers of hospitalized “COVID” patients if he had testified truthfully to this Senate Committee in December 2020, but did not sound the alarm on deadly Hospital practices.

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REFERENCES

(1). .A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

When I left the University of Wisconsin (which, like many places, was not terribly overwhelmed with Covid in Spring 2020), I did so on what I called a “humanitarian leave.” I took a leave of absence of my leadership position at UW to take over my old ICU at Beth Israel Medical Center in lower Manhattan (as a New Yorker I couldn’t stand not being on the “front lines” of my hometown during their massive “surge”). I arrived to find my old colleagues over-worked and exhausted. The hospital was running six full ICU's (there were three just prior to the surge) with four or five of them full of Covid patients on ventilators.

(2). A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

Weird fact: I will never forget a discussion I had with my early mentor Dr. Paul Mayo right before I left New York to start my new position at the University of Wisconsin. He told me that my life as an ICU doctor would be transformed in the Midwest because I would no longer be constantly forced by families to continue life support in the dying to the degree this occurred in New York. He was 100% correct. I quickly discovered that end-of-life conversations were much “easier” in Wisconsin as I found that families more readily accepted my assessment that their loved one was dying.

(3). “End of life” decisions were discussed at length in this article written by Dr. Kory: A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

(4). Subsequently, I have long taught taught the management of acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation to medical students, residents, and fellows. One of my core teaching points focused on identifying the optimal timing for the decision to transition a patient to a mechanical ventilator.

(5). A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

In order to sedate them so we could synchronize them with the ventilator (i.e help them to not “fight” the ventilator, this required, for whatever physiologic reason in that first Wuhan variant, much higher doses of sedatives than what we typically used in vented patients). Unprecedented doses in fact. …

Further, in patients at the end-of-life who are being removed from a ventilator to allow them to die more peacefully, it is absolutely required to sometimes use high doses of opiates and sedatives so that they experience no significant respiratory distress.

(6). Senate Testimony December 08, 2020.

“I’m a lung specialist. I’m an ICU specialist.I’ve cared for more dying COVID patients than anyone can imagine. They are dying because they can’t breathe. They can’t breathe! They’re on high-flow oxygen delivery devices. They’re on non-invasive ventilators, and/or they’re sedated and paralyzed and attached to mechanical ventilators that breathe for them. And I watch them every day. They die.” …

“When you look at the mortality and morbidity of this disease which is unparalleled, we are seeing countless deaths and it’s horrific the way they’re dying.”

(7). Fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Dr. Paul Mayo is a professor of medicine at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and an internationally recognized thought leader in critical care ultrasonography and echocardiography. Dr. Mayo runs a ventilator/airway training program for the first year fellows each July, which provides specific training in all aspects of airway and ventilator management using scenario-based training with a computerized patient simulator.

(8). Face the Nation, April 5, 2020.

(9). List of ICUs 2020

• 2015-2020 Critical Care Service Chief, Medical Director, Trauma and Life Support Center University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI

• May 2020 COVID-19 Emergency Critical Care Attending Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY

• 8/20–10/20 Weatherby Health Care, Locums Critical Care Specialist Greenville Memorial Hospital, Greenville, SC

• Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI Intensivist, Advocate Critical Care Service
  

(10). Newsmax, April 23, 2020. 88 Percent of Patients in NYC Placed on Ventilators Died, Study Finds “They found that 12.2 percent, or 320 patients, received invasive mechanical ventilation. The mortality rate for that group was 88.1 percent.”

(11). FLCCC Alliance member CV - Dr. Pierre Kory

Dr. Pierre Kory’s resume lists the following for Beth Israel Medical Center:

• 2005–2008. Fellowship Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York

• 2008 Teaching Faculty of the Year, Dept. Of Medicine, Beth Israel Med. Ctr

• 2008–2015. Attending Physician - MICU, Pulmonary Consultation Service, Faculty Practice Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, NY

• 2008–2015. Director of Simulation Training–Department of Medicine Beth Israel Medical Center, New York

• 2010 1st Prize - Beth Israel Medical Center Research Fair

• 2012–2015. Program Director - Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship - Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York

• 2013 1st Prize - Beth Israel Research Fair-RCT of Videolaryngoscopy

• May 2020. COVID-19 Emergency Critical Care Attending Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY

• July 8, 2020. Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, Division of Hospitalists Faculty Development Lectures- July 8, 2020
  “The ABC’s of ABG’s”
  “Achieving Oxygenation and Ventilation without Intubation”

(12). FOX 5 DC. Doctor pleads for review of data on ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment during Senate hearing, December 08, 2020.

1:20. I’m a lung doctor. Everyone is dying of breathlessness. The ICUs are filling. They’re all on ventilators and they die slowly. They’re on for weeks. I run an ICU where there’s nothing but patients with COVID. I don’t see any other disease anymore. All I see is COVID, COVID, COVID. And they’re all dying. I can’t help but get emotional. My entire life and my humanity’s being destroyed by this. Are you kidding me? This is not the flu. And I’m so tired of hearing that. This is not the flu. I’m losing patients of all ages, all ethnicities, and they’re all dying. By the time they get to me in the ICU, I can’t turn them around. I can’t recover them. Is that a fair answer as to why I’m emotional?

Interviewer: Yeah, you’re exact words during your testimony were “I can’t keep doing this.”

9:04. Our units are full of those who are black and brown, and the old, it’s just, our Hispanic brothers, our African-American and our elderly patients. They’re being decimated. Decimated by this. There’s just countless death. Our ICUs are full of them and their families are getting destroyed.

(13). Based on a large number of firsthand accounts from family members of Hospital Protocols victims documented to various degrees at Former Feds Group COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal Memory Project, American Frontline Nurses The Remembrance Project, and Death by Hospital Protocol.

(14). The Statement of Dr. Mary Bowden on the Mortality Rates of Hospitalized COVID Patients who were and were not Administered Ivermectin under Court Order, February 27, 2023.

I reconnected w/ (Beth Parlato) over the weekend…hero lawyer who represented Jason Jones and his wife. She and co-counsel Ralph Lorigo filed 189 cases for hospitalized patients trying to get ivermectin. 80 cases went to hearings/trial. They won about 40 and lost about 40. 

With the exception of Jason Jones, every single case lost the client died. Every case that was won, where the client got the ivermectin, the patient lived with exception of 2 (38/40.)

The remaining 109 cases that didn’t go to a hearing, unfortunately the court system along with hospital attorneys delayed proceedings…all those clients died before we could get into court.

(15). Machine learning links unresolving secondary pneumonia to mortality in patients with severe pneumonia, including COVID-19.

(16). Dr. Mike Yeadon: Introductory Statement About Serious Crimes

1. Put simply, there has been no pandemic.

(17) Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Fauci et al, 2008.

Methods

We examined relevant information from the most recent influenza pandemic that occurred during the era prior to the use of antibiotics, the 1918–1919 “Spanish flu” pandemic. We examined lung tissue sections obtained during 58 autopsies and reviewed pathologic and bacteriologic data from 109 published autopsy series that described 8398 individual autopsy investigations.

Results

The postmortem samples we examined from people who died of influenza during 1918–1919 uniformly exhibited severe changes indicative of bacterial pneumonia. Bacteriologic and histopathologic results from published autopsy series clearly and consistently implicated secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory–tract bacteria in most influenza fatalities.

Conclusions

The majority of deaths in the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic likely resulted directly from secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory–tract bacteria.

(18). Dr. Peterson Pierre explains COVID government payments to hospitals

“So the current situation is this. If you have ‘COVID’ and you end up in the hospital, you’re put on a rigid protocol. And there is high mortality rate in the hospital. And your family is kept in the dark as to what’s happening. So what’s going on here?

Number 1, the Cares Act is providing bonus payments to hospitals whenever you have a diagnosis of ‘COVID.’

And then Number 2, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is waiving patient rights. This is a deadly combination. So, here’s what happens.

You get a payment because you offer a free ‘COVID’ test in the Emergency Room. You get a booster payment if you have a diagnosis of ‘COVID.’

Number 3, you get another bonus payment if you are admitted with ‘COVID.’

Number 4, you get another bonus payment if you’re put on Remdesivir.

Number 5, another bonus payment if you’re put on a mechanical ventilator.

Number 6, another 20% bonus if the diagnosis on your death certificate says ‘COVID,’ even though you may not have died from ‘COVID.’

And then Number 7, there’s bonus payments to Coroners.

Do you understand the gravity of what’s happening right now? The Biden Administration is literally paying Hospitals to kill people. That’s what’s happening. This is terrible. We need to stop that. These are real human lives we’re talking about. They’re priceless. It’s estimated that about $100,000 per patient is what the Hospitals get. Think about that. Ladies and Gentlemen, the real news right now continues.”

(19). A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

Kory: “The drop in antibiotic use. Yes, I am sure it is because they wanted all their residents to die of secondary bacterial pneumonia. Nonsense. It was a viral induced pneumonia, no antibacterials were indicated in the majority, and so many in care homes died from a viral pneumonia quickly, that I don’t find it that weird that total antibiotic use dropped.”

HGHG

(20). Northwestern.edu. Successful Clinical Response In Pneumonia TherapyNIH Resarch program number: 5U19AI135964-02

“The Successful Clinical Response In Pneumonia Treatment (SCRIPT) systems biology center seeks to delineate the complex host/pathogen interactions occurring at the alveolar level that lead to unsuccessful response to therapy in serious pneumonia. We will leverage our unique access to alveolar fluid collected as part of routine clinical care in mechanically ventilated patients to generate clinical phenomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic and metagenomic data that describe the host response, pathogen characteristics and microbiome of the alveolar space during pneumonia.”

(21). Northwestern: Project 2: Microbial determinants of failure of antimicrobial therapy

“The overall goal of SCRIPT Research Project 2 is to create a computational model based on microbial biosignatures that predicts clinical failure in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia. Specific pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii are particularly problematic in ventilator-associated pneumonia and are associated with clinical failure rates as high as 50%, even in patients treated with appropriate antibiotic therapy. For this reason, a more detailed analysis will be performed on pneumonia caused by these pathogens.”

(22). Link to funding of Feinberg by Fauci

(23). Machine learning links unresolving secondary pneumonia to mortality in patients with severe pneumonia, including COVID-19, April 27, 2023

METHODS. We performed a single-center, prospective cohort study of 585 mechanically ventilated patients with severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, 190 of whom had COVID-19, who underwent at least 1 bronchoalveolar lavage. A panel of intensive care unit (ICU) physicians adjudicated the pneumonia episodes and endpoints on the basis of clinical and microbiological data. Given the relatively long ICU length of stay (LOS) among patients with COVID-19, we developed a machine-learning approach called CarpeDiem, which grouped similar ICU patient-days into clinical states based on electronic health record data.

RESULTS. CarpeDiem revealed that the long ICU LOS among patients with COVID-19 was attributable to long stays in clinical states characterized primarily by respiratory failure. While VAP was not associated with mortality overall, the mortality rate was higher for patients with 1 episode of unsuccessfully treated VAP compared with those with successfully treated VAP (76.4% versus 17.6%, P < 0.001). For all patients, including those with COVID-19, CarpeDiem demonstrated that unresolving VAP was associated with a transitions to clinical states associated with higher mortality.

CONCLUSIONS. Unsuccessful treatment of VAP is associated with higher mortality. The relatively long LOS for patients with COVID-19 was primarily due to prolonged respiratory failure, placing them at higher risk of VAP.

(24).

The paper from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Machine learning links unresolving secondary pneumonia to mortality in patients with severe pneumonia, including COVID-19, April 27, 2023 references their funding as:

“FUNDING. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH grant U19AI135964;”

Grant U19AI135964 from the NIAID to Northwestern began January 17, 2018. Northwestern’s SCRIPT program enrolled 601 patients in SCRIPT between June 2018 and March 2022 as listed in Machine learning links unresolving secondary pneumonia to mortality in patients with severe pneumonia, including COVID-19, April 27, 2023

(25). Reference quote Pierre Kory on long stays on ventilators.

(26). Elon Musk's Comments On The Initial Use Of Mechanical Ventilation In the Covid Pandemic - Pt. 2, November 15, 2023.

In Part 1 of this three part series triggered by Elon Musk’s comments on mechanical ventilation :), I argued that the unprecedented mortality rates observed with mechanical ventilation was almost completely due to the lack of effective treatments being offerred rather than the use of the ventilators alone.

(27). When Pawpaws, Quail, and Goats tested Positive for COVID

(28). 18 USC 1001

Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(29). New York coronavirus cases and deaths

(30). The Premature Use Of Mechanical Ventilation In The First Wave Of The Covid Pandemic, February 23, 2023.

I was also known as a “vent geek.” In fact, one of the reasons why I became a pulmonary and critical care doc stemmed from an early fascination with operating mechanical ventilators.

(31). A Farewell To Virology – Part Two (Dr Mark Bailey and Steve Falconer), December 19, 2023.

(32). When Justice Fails: The Silence of the District Attorney of Nassau County NY Anne T. Donnelly, Rebecca Charles, February 09, 2024.

(33). FLCCC Alliance member CV - Dr. Pierre Kory

1995–1997. Project Coordinator - Study of Incentives to Improve Medicaid Immunization Coverage Rates, NYC Dept. of Health and Centers for Disease Control

1997–1998. Project Director - Study of Incentives to Improve Medicaid Immunization Coverage Rates, NYC Dept. of Health and Centers for Disease Control

(34). FLCCC Alliance member CV - Dr. Pierre Kory

1998–2002. M.D. St. George’s University Grenada, West Indies.

(35). A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

Overall, depending on the ICU, despite use of these tools, an average of about 10%-20% of ICU patients will die. People die. It’s life. The machines do not make us immortal. These machines cannot “save” everyone. In those that continue to deteriorate or enter multi-organ failure, the patient becomes “irrecoverable” and enters into what I call the “actively dying” phase. Prolong the actively dying phase with life support machines means you are actually prolonging suffering. This happened a lot and was one of the reasons why I myself had a career-long “love-hate” relationship with ICU work.

(36). State of New York Medicaid Redesign Team in 2011.

(37). State of New York Medicaid Redesign Team II in 2021.

(38). Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths

Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. …

Bacterial infections may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself, according to the findings. The scientists also found evidence that COVID-19 does not cause a “cytokine storm,” so often believed to cause death.

“Our study highlights the importance of preventing, looking for and aggressively treating secondary bacterial pneumonia in critically ill patients with severe pneumonia, including those with COVID-19,” said senior author Benjamin Singer, MD, the Lawrence Hicks Professor of Pulmonary Medicine in the Department of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine pulmonary and critical care physician

(39). A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

In my entire career, I was almost always physically present in the patients room during “terminal weans” to support not only the family but also the nurses in giving enough sedation (some young nurses were sometimes too timid with dosing and the patients would experience distress). Again, the goal was to allow the patient to pass comfortably without respiratory distress. …

Question: do patients die faster in this situation? Answer: it depends. I will admit that yes, the time until the heart stops can be shorter in many cases, but again, that was NOT the intent, it is instead a secondary effect of the medicines, the primary effect was to relieve respiratory distress and make them more comfortable.

(40). Facebook: We're live with Paul H. Mayo

I’m Director of Critical Care Education at Northwell Hospital (Northwell Health).

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1:20. I’m a lung doctor. Everyone is dying of breathlessness. The ICUs are filling. They’re all on ventilators and they die slowly. They’re on for weeks. I run an ICU where there’s nothing but patients with COVID. I don’t see any other disease anymore. All I see is COVID, COVID, COVID. And they’re all dying. I can’t help but get emotional. My entire life and my humanity’s being destroyed by this. Are you kidding me? This is not the flu. And I’m so tired of hearing that. This is not the flu. I’m losing patients of all ages, all ethnicities, and they’re all dying. By the time they get to me in the ICU, I can’t turn them around. I can’t recover them. Is that a fair answer as to why I’m emotional?

Interviewer: Yeah, you’re exact words during your testimony were “I can’t keep doing this.”

9:04. Our units are full of those who are black and brown, and the old, it’s just, our Hispanic brothers, our African-American and our elderly patients. They’re being decimated. Decimated by this. There’s just countless death. Our ICUs are full of them and their families are getting destroyed.

(42). A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020, February 26, 2023.

My experience in the ICU I was running in Spring 2020 was that many patients were dying from irrecoverable lung injury (they hadn’t been treated!) such that they had to be terminally weaned which required even more sedation. This is actually something that I would even call “best practice.”

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