Anthony Fauci promotes the use of ventilators to treat covid; despite admitting more than a year ago they do more harm than good
Anthony Fauci promotes the use of ventilators to treat covid; despite admitting more than a year ago they do more harm than good
A little more than a week ago, during a session to discuss pandemic lessons learned, Anthony Fauci was asked if there was another pandemic of disease X
On 15 August, Fauci responded to the question put to him by Dr. Teena Chopra, Wayne State University’s Dean of Coaching and Professional Development:
“Lockdowns have to have an end game. You have a reason to lockdown, for example, in New York City, when Elmhurst Hospital was overrun and they were having cooler trucks outside, because they had no places to put the bodies, you had to have something to immediately shut down the tsunami of infection. That lockdown was absolutely justified.
“Lockdown has a purpose. One of the purposes, if you do not have a vaccine, it is to get more ventilators, get the hospitals better prepared, get more people involved in the healthcare sector to do it until you decompress the pressure on the hospitals, then you can open up.
“If you have a vaccine available, you might want to lockdown temporarily so you can get everybody vaccinated.
“So, lockdowns with a purpose work. It saves lives.”
Were Hospitals Overwhelmed?
According to Wikipedia, starting on 16 March 2020, New York City schools were closed. A few days later, on 20 March, the New York State governor’s office issued an executive order for “non-essential” businesses to close. The city’s public transportation system remained open, but service was substantially reduced.
Wikipedia goes on to state that by April, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were out of work, with lost tax revenues estimated to run into the billions of dollars. Low-income jobs in the retail, transportation, and restaurant sectors were especially affected. Over the course of the year, average residential and commercial rents both declined more than 10% in Manhattan, and vacancies surged. Was the shutdown of schools and businesses justified?
In a deep dive into the data of the covid event in New York City, Dr. Jessica Hockett demonstrated that Elmhurst Hospital was not overrun. Below is a graph prepared by Dr. Hockett from data for the beds occupied in Elmhurst Hospital which was purported to be at the epicentre of the covid outbreak.
After the first case of covid in New York City was announced on 1 March 2020, Dr. Hockett said, hospital emergency department visits plummeted. After the shutdowns were announced, there was an indication that people were going to the emergency rooms for minor ailments, for example, a cough. “But overall, the volume of people going to the emergency departments and the intake of the hospitals was down. This was true nationwide as well, although not quite as dramatic a plummet … [such] as in New York City,” she said.
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