Thread by @Wood_House76

Quarterly Emergency Department Visits for Elmhurst Hospital, Queens (NYC) -- the so-called "epicenter of the epicenter"

What exactly happened here?

Why hasn't anyone been held accountable for the propaganda we were sold?

We were told the scene at Elmhurst was "apocalyptic"

Was it?

How so?

Colleen Smith - who is also medical simulation specialist 🤔- thought so.

"From our perspective, everything is not fine. I don’t have the support that I need, and even just the materials that I need, physically, to take care of my patients."

"On a regular day, my emergency department’s volume is pretty high. It’s about 200 people a day," said Smith "Now we’re seeing 400 or more people a day."

City data say otherwise. ⬇️

What should we make of the gap btw Smith's claims & the public data?

An independent media agent questioned Dr. Smith in near-real time on Twitter

Was/is Smith a crisis actor? Did she believe what she was saying?

Days later, on March 31st, Cameron Kyle-Siddell (who was working at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn) *blew the whistle* on the use the mechanical ventilation with covid+ patients.

He was (and is) hailed as a courageous hero.

Yet Kyle-Siddell was quickly embraced by and did an interview with WebMD.

Why?

Seems pretty strange that Pharma-blessed media would give an actual whistleblower, vs an approved one, a platform in these days.

webmd.com/coronavirus-in…

Jason Goodman (same person who questioned Colleen) gave Kyle-Siddell a couple calls.

These calls might be contrived, for all we know, but K-S insists the vents are needed and that what he's seeing is something completely new.

odysee.com/@Crowdsourceth…

Kyle-Siddell also says he knows Colleen Smith.

"I actually know Colleen. She was one of my residents."

🧐

In June 2020, Smith, Kyle-Siddell, and other NYC doctors participated in a "live storytelling event"

I'll leave it to you, followers and to watch these videos, listen to what's being said.

nyacep.org/practice-resou…

Needless to say, whatever actually happened in NYC hospitals - particularly in March and early April 2020 - is STILL locked inside a Black Box and shrouded in #omerta.

After studying this for a year+, I still have more questions than rock-solid answers.

Elmhurst's occupancy data - which I obtained earlier this year from NYC H+H - is also not what we were led to believe.

This is patients in beds (census), from April 2016 thru December 2020⬇️

I question whether the early March drop was really "canceling elective surgeries"

How many deaths (all causes) were there in that period?

I requested daily ACM for 2020 and years prior, via FOIL, but still haven't received a response

As for the travel Nurse, Erin O who wrote a book about her time at Elmhurst Hospital, I've read the book and seen the videos.

Many things she says corroborate contemporaneous policies & other accounts.

However...

Erin said she started at Elmhurst on April 22, 2020 - after the Black Box period.

The only place we can see death data for Elmhurst is in the state’s wonky facility file, which begins 3/26/20, the same day a new record-keeping system was activated in hospitals

Nearly 400 “covid deaths”

Essentially a hospital-ful of people.

(The 50 in one day is prob backlog, but still)

Both the Elmhurst data and scads of other data I’ve examined lead me to conclude that a good portion of the mass casualty event were people who were already in the hospital

People in for other reasons who couldn’t be discharged

What’s really awful about that is that it’s VERY easy to create the appearance of “sudden spread” by simply letting people die and/or changing what you’re doing all at once.

Was Colleen Smith in sim/live exercise mode?

If so, why?

Maybe that death curve isn’t what we think

More examples of the militarized travel nurse/doctor brigade brought in to effectively "verify" that something had happened.

@PierreKory also came during this time, I believe.

Were these ventilators from Tesla ever used at Elmhurst, or was this just for show?

In May 2020, NYC H+H/Elmhurst Hospital employees were "awarded" free vacations from AA & Hyatt Hotels* "to help them recharge & reconnect w/their loved ones, once they are able to take time for themselves."

*Owned by The Pritzker Family hospitalitynet.org/news/4098633.h…

Monthly ED visits & inpatient admissions for Elmhurst Hospital (2018-2020) alongside "Wave 1" Covid deaths reported to the state, are striking.

March 2020 saw only 2 more admits to inpatient than Oct 2019 - & far fewer ED visits

Why no media panic earlier in the flu season? 🤔

The data provided to me by NYC H+H via FOIL show that spring 2020 occupancy for Non-ICU and ICU beds combined peaked at 318.

This isn't "covid patients" - it's all patients.

With that in mind...

How it is possible that Elmhurst lost more than its peak occupancy to "Covid" in this timeframe?

Who handled the bodies?

Were any deaths NOT blamed on Covid-19?

Indeed, the state's data show more than peak spring occupancy died at Elmhurst in ONE MONTH.

Ostensibly, these deaths were from sudden spread of a virus with an IFR comparable to flu AT MOST.

Where is the federal inquiry @RepThomasMassie @randpaul @SenRonJohnson?

@RepThomasMassie @RandPaul @SenRonJohnson The reporting of 49 covid deaths in a single day is ridiculous - and most likely a data dump.

Is there a reason someone found dozens of deaths to blame on Covid before the end of April?

When did those deaths actually occur, assuming they did occur?

And NO real increase in covid deaths to speak of after the mass casualty event?

Elmhurst (and other NYC hospitals) figured out "how to handle the virus," but didn't tell Chicago and L.A. hospitals?

Super sus, to say the least.

In May, I sent this FOIL request to NYC Health + Hospital (the same entity that provided the Elmhurst occupancy data).

My request was acknowledged, but I still haven't received responsive records or an update -- even after following & asking about the status several times.

This ⬇️ photo of the waiting room of the Elmhurst ER, taken on April 12, 2020 and posted by @cordeliers, is 100% corroborated by the Elmhurst ED visit data.

@cordeliers 🔎Closer look at Elmhurst ICU occupancy in early 2020:

🧐 Below the 2017-19 avg
🧐 Shows a different "flow"/pattern than prior yrs
🧐 Saw drops/decline after mid-Feb, pre "15 days"

Note: Declines in ICU occ = transfer to non-ICU, discharged alive, or discharged dead

Back to occupancy for all beds.

Look at January.

Tell me @NYCHealthSystem - did you experience deaths in your hospitals that were pushed forward?

What happened before the official "lockdown"?

Also, per the data I obtained, Elmhurst's norm ICU occupancy was ~75

Peak ICU occ in spring 2020 was 88 pts

Why does this 4/2/2020 article say, "Throughout the initial surge, Elmhurst has added 82 ICU beds, bringing the total available to 111"?

qns.com/2020/04/citys-…

To clarify, this is NOT a percent graph.

It’s raw number of beds occupied by patients

We still don't know what was going on inside Elmhurst or any NYC hospital, esp in March 2020.

Videos from the June 2020 "storytelling" event that Colleen Smith & other docs participated give reasons to disbelieve both the narrative AND counter-narrative

It's truly amazing that the NYT has never issued any corrections or clarifications about the video they made with Colleen.

The things she said didn't make sense back then, but they're even more eyebrow-raising now...

Questions about Elmhurst's ICU occupancy

Elmhurst annual inpatient discharges vs annual inpatients discharged dead.

Over double the deaths in 2020, with the lowest total discharges since 2009. 🧐

Most of the death increase happened in matter of weeks.

What should we make of this?

Military personnel came into Elmhurst in early April 2020.

The "Elmhurst Hospital Support Mission"

In a 4/22/20 interview, Master Sgt. Matthew Zimmer said,

"They turned the entire hospital into COVID wards." 🤔

Referring to Elmhurst staff: "This was not our show when we showed up; this was their show." 🤔

dvidshub.net/video/751142/1…

Zimmerman also talks about how busy the ER was.

The data contradict his claim.

🧐

Another contradiction:

104th Fighter Wing article says the hospital's ICU "normally held 35 patients."

But data I obtained from NYC H+H shows Elmhurst's ICU occupancy was usually between 50 - 75 patients 🤔

cc: @snorman1776

FYI, Elmhurst Hospital is in the Corona neighborhood of Queens

Is it strange that an allegedly deadly, super-spreading novel pathogen happened to "hit" that 'hood?

Corona Virus? 🤡

More from the Department of Things That Don't Make Sense: Elmhurst Edition

"Elmhurst had a patient roster that was over 230% capacity during the last week of February and the first week of March of 2020. Nearly all of those patients were critically ill with COVID-19."

What does patient roster mean?

The last wk of Feb/early week of March is before the WHO declaration and "15 days to slow the spread" 🚩

abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/ny-…

"It was almost like a war"

Maybe it was staged that way?

U.S. government, et al
▪️trying to convince everyone sudden spread of a virus from Wuhan was occurring?
▪️seizing the opportunity for a systems-testing exercise?
▪️hiding something else that was happening?

Three workers from the Materials Management dept at Elmhurst purportedly died from COVID in those weeks?

Come on, now.

This is insane. people.com/health/nyc-hos…

Days after the NYT put out the “Damsel in Distress” video of Colleen Smith at Elmhurst Hospital, President Trump hyped the scene as evidence something important and bad was happening.

WSJ reported on March 31, 2020 that "numbers and reports about refrigerator trucks being used to hold the bodies of people who have died of the virus" at Elmhurst changed Trump's mind about trying to open the country back up for Easter

March 2021, NY Intelligencer: "Elmhurst Hospital in central Queens was the epicenter of the epicenter when the pandemic crashed over New York last spring. Horrifying news stories brought attention to the hospital’s 'apocalyptic' conditions and staggering loss of life that ultimately spurred an increase in patient transfers to lighten the load on the beleaguered institution. But when the cameras largely moved on, hospital staff, several of whom are pictured here, were left to confront wave after wave — through the slow ebb of summer and the reemerging swells of fall and winter." 🤔

UPDATE: Elmhurst's daily death data alongside occupancy make no sense.

I continue to believe the Feds used this and other hospitals to run a simulation with existing patients, on the edge nursing home residents, and others.

The question is whether and to what extent these data represent a real-time event - and why no one wants to talk about this.