Questions for Dr. Pierre Kory on COVID Ventilator Deaths

Hello Dr. Kory. My name is Charles Wright. I am researching “COVID” ventilator deaths. I believe that deaths associated with ventilator acquired pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia have been falsely described as viral pneumonia on a large scale.

I have developed a few questions based on your FLCCC bio, public interviews that you have conducted, and remarks that you have made in your substack.

First of all, what was your employment history in 2020? I have found some contradictory information online.

• Your FLCCC bio states that you began 2020 at the University of Wisconsin Hospital;

• worked at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York throughout May 2020;

• worked at Weatherby Health Care in South Carolina from August to October 2020;

• and that you were employed at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee Wisconsin from October to December 2020.

This excerpt is from your FLCCC bio for May 2020:

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.

You wrote:

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

The New York Times, however, seemingly reported a different employment history in an August 9, 2020 article titled: The Covid Drug Wars That Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor.

The New York Times said you resigned from the University of Wisconsin hospital in April 2020. And took a job at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee.

Kory was so frustrated about the hospital’s approach that in May he resigned, taking a job instead at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee. …

In April, supportive care alone was considered the best option for patients with Covid-19, given that there was no evidence yet to back other treatments. Kory, who was then the chief of critical-care service at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, believed instead that medications commonly used in critical care would most likely help critically ill Covid-19 patients, too. 

Perhaps a correction of the New York Times article is in order.

To recap, the New York Times made it sound like you went directly from the University of Wisconsin to Aurora St. Luke in May 2020, whereas your FLCCC bio shows that you left the U of Wisconsin in April/May 2020, went to Beth Israel Medical Center in May, then had a blank spot in your employment history, then went to Weatherby in South Carolina in August, then to Aurora in Wisconsin in October.

And can you please state where you were employed from June to August 2020?

Your bio states that you were employed at the New York City CDC from 1995-1998. Were you employed by the New York CDC or any other governmental organization in 2020, or did you do any consulting for any governmental organization?

Your employment dates are important is because you appear to have worked in at least 4 ICUs treating COVID patients in 2020. The mortality rates of patients under your medical supervision at each hospital are worthy of study. You could also describe who set the treatment protocols at each hospital in which you worked- the doctors, or the administration? There are unconfirmed anecdotal reports that hospital administrators forced some doctors to use Remdesivir and ventilators over doctor’s objections in order for the hospitals to receive COVID government subsidies.

On December 08, 2020, you told Fox 5 New York that your patients were “all dying.”

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 been destroyed by this. Are you kidding? 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. 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.

You said the same thing earlier in the day to Senator Ron Johnson.

People are dying at unacceptable and untold rates. I am a lung and ICU specialist, and all I do right now is take care of COVID-19 patients dying of breathlessness in ICUs. By the time they get to the ICU, it is nearly impossible to save most patients. They simply cannot breathe – all are attached to high flow oxygen delivery devices or non-invasive ventilator masks strapped tight to their faces or they are placed in sedative comas and paralyzed so that mechanical ventilators can do the work of breathing for them. They are dying even with our armory of modern medicines and machines. And they are dying slowly. I have never witnessed a form of respiratory failure where patients can be consistently kept alive for weeks before finally succumbing.

The following questions relate to statistics that I hope you will provide.

How many people did you treat at each hospital in 2020? How many of these patients were ventilated? How many of these patients were given Remdesivir? How many of these patients were given large amounts of sedatives? How many of these patients died?

You said there was nothing you could do to save them. I find this difficult to believe.

As I’m sure you are aware, your colleague Dr. Mary Bowden reported that hospitalized COVID patients survived at a high rate after being administered Ivermectin under court order, and those who did not receive Ivermectin all died. Here is the statement.

I believe that the primary benefit of Ivermectin on hospitalized “COVID” patients was to kill bacteria.

I am sure that you are aware of the Northwestern University Feinstein study which described ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and bacterial pneumonia.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation: Machine learning links unresolving secondary pneumonia to mortality in patients with severe pneumonia, including COVID-19.

The importance of VAP as a driver of mortality in patients with COVID-19 has been underestimated, probably because bronchoscopic sampling has been uncommon during the pandemic, the use of antibiotics is ubiquitous, and clinical criteria and biomarkers do not accurately distinguish between primary SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and secondary bacterial pneumonia (41).

Northwestern: 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. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not resolve was a key driver of death in patients with COVID-19, results published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. …

Bacterial infections may even exceed death rates from the viral infection itself, according to the findings.

One mother, Rebecca Charles, went through her daughter’s medical records and determined that after a diagnosis of “COVID pneumonia,” the staff at Northwell Health did not perform tests for bacterial pneumonia. Sepsis was later determined to be a major factor in Danielle’s death after an autopsy.

https://deathbyhospitalprotocol.com/danielles-last-forty-

After a covid-19 test was administered, she was diagnosed with having double pneumonia on both lungs and covid. …

The Doctors ignored the correct medical test procedures such as a sputum test. A Sputum test is the most common test ordered when a patient has pneumonia. It is used to identify the bacteria or fungi causing the airway or lung infection.  Danielle was not given this test.

Did you routinely perform tests for bacterial pneumonia on patients diagnosed with “COVID pneumonia?”

Again, I believe it was a widespread practice not to administer tests for bacteria after a “COVID pneumonia” diagnosis, which is to say a positive COVID PCR test and some sympoms like cough and fever, and then knowingly and intentionally allow death to occur from bacterial pneumonia, kidney failure from Remdesivir, opioid poisoning, and so on.

I am aware that you disagree, in general, that the use of antibiotics was required for COVID patients, because as you say, “COVID” pneumonia was a viral induced pneumonia.

February 26, 2023:

A Contrarian Opinion Regarding The Massive Increase In The Use of Sedatives And Opiates In UK Nursing Homes In Early 2020

We weren't trying to “kill” them using such doses, we were trying to save them. In my opinion, the massive doses of sedatives required during that time simply resulted from the widespread insufficient or non-treatment of the underlying lung disease with corticosteroids and anti-coagulants (foreshadowing - it was not from a deficiency of antibiotics). …

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. “Secondary bacterial pneumonia” certainly occurred, but it was relatively rare, even in the ICU! To suggest that everyone was dying of a secondary bacterial pneumonia (like in 1918 Spanish Flu where a bacterial pneumonia actually was the proximate cause of most deaths) is absurd. I would start antibiotics in the ICU any time I felt something “new” was going on, or they were getting “worse” and I couldn’t rule out a bacterial pneumonia, so I empirically treated them with antibiotics.. Didn’t matter.

In any case, I think we can agree that your treatment records are worthy of study because your patients were “all dying” and other hospitalized patients who were severely ill and who were administered Ivermectin under Court Order survived at high rates.

So if you don’t mind, please share your mortality data and full employment history for 2020 so that we can try to make sense of it. While I am inclined to believe that something is very wrong here, if a consensus medical opinion after a review of records determines that you did nothing wrong, I will apologize.

Respectfully,

Charles Wright

P.S. To my subscribers: Please make Dr. Kory aware of these questions. Thank you.