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Recordings Reveal Lockstep COVID-19 Protocols,
Patient Isolation by Hospitals



The Mayo Clinic logo at Mayo Clinic Square, Minneapolis, Minn.,
on June 24, 2018.
(Tony Webster via Wikimedia Commons)



BY NATHAN WORCESTER
October 31, 2021
Updated: October 31, 2021



Attorneys, medical doctors, and family members of COVID-19 victims have
described and offered recordings of what the Truth for Health Foundation calls
“horrific hospital violations of human rights,” including denial of intravenous
fluids to patients, denial of access to patients by families, attorneys, and others,
and imposition of remdesivir on patients despite risks of kidney and liver damage
from that drug and the availability of possibly safer alternatives, such as ivermectin.

“Prisoners in America’s jails do have more rights right now than COVID patients
in America’s hospitals—it’s unheard of,” Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, the president and
chief executive of the foundation, said at an Oct. 27 press conference that she
moderated. According to its website, the mission of the physician-founded charity
foundation is “to provide truthful, balanced, medically sound, research-based
information and cutting-edge updates on prevention and treatment of common
medical conditions, including COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, that affect
health, quality of life, and longevity.”

“‘I’m doing my job’ has never been a defense to crimes against humanity,”
said Ali Shultz, legal director for America’s Frontline Doctors, whose mother-in-law
died of COVID-19 and whose father-in-law allegedly suffered severe harm as a
COVID-19 patient at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Shultz said that despite her medical power of attorney, she was prevented from
learning basic information about the status of her father-in-law, Chuck,
while he was in the hospital.

“I tried everything,” Shultz said. “I wrote every letter possible. I sent every email
possible to advocate for them. I was literally carried out in handcuffs under color of law.
I was assaulted under color of law. I was deprived access to their health records,
I was deprived access to them, and I was lied to. But that’s absolutely nothing compared
to what happened to Chuck.”

Shultz said that the Mayo Clinic kept Chuck from any hydration or nourishment over six days,
“except one bag of D5 [dextrose 5 percent] water.”

She also stated that the clinic secretly experimented on Chuck with the repurposed
rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib. They also secluded him for over three weeks
more than the Arizona Department of Public Health or the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) recommend, according to Shultz.

Shultz played a recording of someone who identified himself as a hospital administrator;
this recording and others by Shultz were legal, as Arizona is a one-party consent state
for recordings. The administrator stated that the choice to deprive Chuck of food and
water was the standard of care in metropolitan Phoenix, due to concerns about the
aspiration of objects into his lungs.

“Yes, of course, we don’t want him to aspirate, but maybe he could get some
IV hydration—something at all—or, I don’t know, just an assessment?”
Shultz asked in the recording.

In another recording, an unidentified hospital employee stated, “As far as visitation
in our hospital, we are not going to allow you to visit him in our hospital
as long as he is here.”

A third recording referred to meetings among hospital executives that concluded patients
who test positive for COVID-19 wouldn’t be permitted to receive visitors.

“So, they’re meeting and they’re all deciding on this together. So, either this is becoming
the standard of care, or this is the same modus operandi, which actually criminally
makes it easier to prove,” Shultz commented after playing the recording.

She urged listeners to prevent COVID-19 patients from being secluded.

“Get in there—it is in the Patient Bill of Rights,” Shultz said. “Just because they’re
using the word ‘isolation’ doesn’t mean it makes it any better what they’re doing.”

“When an American is isolated from others, what is this considered?
Unlawful imprisonment—torture.”

Holding up a document she identified as a police report on the Mayo Clinic, which
she said included felony charges of vulnerable adult abuse, Shultz stressed that
prosecutors have considerable discretion to decide whether doctors should be charged.

She also highlighted a template for a private criminal complaint individuals can file
online with their state’s attorney general, which she said can be accessed through
the Truth for Health Foundation’s website.

Other speakers at the press conference included Dr. Bryan Ardis, who highlighted
what he described as the hazards of remdesivir, as well as an unprecedented
climate of fear and retribution for medical doctors who dissent from the enforced
consensus on its use.

“Now they are punishing those who want to practice medicine and they are continuing
to reward and allow doctors to maintain their licenses to practice in hospitals if they
just follow the mandated protocol,” he said.

Ardis pointed out that a randomized, controlled trial of remdesivir and other therapies
for Ebola, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and touted by Dr. Anthony Fauci,
head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the
chief medical adviser to the president, actually showed the dangers of remdesivir,
as the scientists stopped administering it during the study because it was leading to a
mortality rate above 50 percent—higher than any of the other drugs they tested.

He also stated that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is “bribing hospitals”
to choose remdesivir with a 20 percent bonus. CMS’s website does, in fact, refer to a
“20% add-on payment” for claims coding for COVID-19 and for treatment by remdesivir
or several other drugs.

In a pre-recorded interview with Vliet, another speaker, identified only as Mary Ann,
spoke about her Marine Corps veteran father’s deterioration and death at a Bozeman,
Montana, hospital. She said she was prevented from being with her father and holding
his hand as he died, allowed only to view him from behind glass as he convulsed in
his bed, a mask concealing his face.

“There’s something about when you’re able to be with your loved one and talk to them
and hold their hand, there’s something extremely powerful in that—and there’s a reason
they don’t want us in the hospital,” said Mary Ann. “They want us apart from each other.”

Thomas Renz, legal counsel for the foundation, shared what he called “the most shocking
statistic I have seen probably since this has started”: in Texas, 84.8 percent of people
who were mechanically ventilated for 96 consecutive hours died.


The Epoch Times could not independently verify this statistic before press time.



“It’s a death sentence,” said Renz.

Vliet concluded the press conference by recommending patients seek early treatment
rather than waiting for symptoms to worsen. She also urged patients to think strategically
and plan ahead if they do end up going into a hospital.

“You have the right to refuse treatment, you have the right to request treatment,
you have the right to have an advocate when you are in the hospital. When those
rights are denied, your civil rights, human rights, and constitutional rights are being
overridden—and you will need an advocate,” she added.

The Mayo Clinic did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Shultz’s allegations.
In addition, CMS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Ardis’s claim
that it is bribing hospitals to choose remdesivir.