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All Posts Related to New York City's Spring 2020 Mortality Event

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Jessica Hockett
Oct 10, 2022
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Start Spreading the News
So…covid-19 was nowhere in the NYC emergency medical services (EMS) data*, until it was *everywhere*, all at once, simultaneous to the lockdown announcement? 🤔 Fascinating. To clarify, this is phone call data. Phone calls placed to Emergency Medical Services…
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6 months ago · 36 likes · 14 comments · E.Woodhouse
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Where Was Covid?
There’s oodles of talk about whether SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a lab or a was product of nature. As provocative as that line of inquiry is, I’m more interested in a related question: When did SARS-CoV-2 begin to circulate in the U.S.? I’ve looked for possible answers in mortality data - especially for New York City…
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6 months ago · 51 likes · 40 comments · E.Woodhouse
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Reconcilable Differences?
You’ve probably heard about the New York nursing home scandal. Short version: Governor Andrew Cuomo killed a whole bunch of people by sending covid-positive patients into nursing homes. He then tried to cover up the total number of residents who died from covid by excluding from public announcement the number that died in hospitals…
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6 months ago · 17 likes · 11 comments · E.Woodhouse
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April Was the Cruelest Month
T.S. Eliot, author of “The Wasteland,” the first line of which is “April is the cruellest month" People who discuss the U.S. mortality event of spring 2020 in a serious, intellectually honest way generally acknowledge that at least some Americans were killed by human interventions — especially mis-use of mechanical ventilators, and especially in New York…
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5 months ago · 19 likes · 8 comments · E.Woodhouse
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New York City ER Visits Plummeted in Spring 2020
Repeat after me: New York City’s emergency rooms were not overwhelmed by visits in spring 2020. In fact, they were busier during the 2017-2018 flu season than they were at any point between lockdown orders or January 2022’s *omicron surge*. Data from the New York City Department of Health & Hygiene, provided via FOIA request, tell a different story from…
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5 months ago · 1 like · E.Woodhouse
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More Data & Questions about Spring 2020 Covid in New York City Hospitals
A few weeks ago, I posted data showing New York City’s hospital emergency departments were not at a breaking point in spring 2020. In fact, they were relatively empty and saw a 50% drop in visits. 🤔 I recently requested and obtained more files from the city’s health department to analyze alongside already-public data. (Raw data file with links to source…
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Responding to Critiques of My Observations about NYC
After Brownstone Institute republished my last article on New York City emergency department data, friends made me aware of some pushback from a hospitalist on Twitter. Addressing criticism on every platform is not a wise use of time, but enough of my fellow “Team Reality” colleagues engaged the thread to motivate me to respond…
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4 months ago · Jessica Hockett
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NYC's Hospital System Never Reached Full Capacity in Spring 2020
We know New York City hospitals experienced a dramatic drop in visits to emergency departments in spring 2020. What about inpatient census? Was the system ever out of beds or bursting at the seams? How many patients were placed on ventilators? Did most have covid…
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4 months ago · 9 likes · 3 comments · Jessica Hockett
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DOCUMENT: Andrew Cuomo's March 23, 2020 Executive Order for Hospitals
Original document here. No. 202.10 E X E C U T I V E O R D E R Continuing Temporary Suspension and Modification of Laws Relating to the Disaster Emergency WHEREAS, on March 7, 2020, I issued Executive Order Number 202, declaring a State disaster emergency for the entire State of New York…
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2 months ago · 5 likes · 2 comments · Jessica Hockett
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An Abandoned Public New York City Dataset Shows Early January 2020 Cases
A public dataset in New York City Open Data shows that specimen taken from New Yorkers in early January 2020 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The file, named “COVID-19 Outcomes by Testing Cohorts: Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths”, was launched by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) on April 28, 2020, and reports “outcomes (confirm…
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a month ago · 10 likes · Jessica Hockett
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The NYC Nursing Home Narrative, Part 1: How Many New York City Nursing Home Residents Died in Spring 2020?
One explanation I keep hearing for the New York City’s staggering spring 2020 (graphed above) is, “Cuomo sent covid+ hospital patients into nursing homes and killed everyone.” Unfortunately, this claim isn’t as well-substantiated as people believe it is. In truth, despite scads of media attention and Cuomo’s resignation, we…
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14 days ago · 13 likes · 8 comments · Jessica Hockett
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I believe everything you’re investigating about nyc is right on and I have believed so since it was happening and that disgrace of a man was was yelling about needing 40K ventilators every day. My father died on ventilator misuse in 2006. I knew instinctively at the time. I’m on LI by a big U and hospital. Multiple people here in Jan - April here weren’t unusually sick at all. You would never know. We were in and out of city multiple times too. Though my mom did go home with a lasting cough dec 2019. Most people didn’t get “covid” until fall 20. Couple things I wanted to share. Wish I had your email. I subscribe to you and look at nitter. 1) Had one friend pretty sick with pneumonia toward end of March right as things shut down. Neurologist friend told her to go to er, her husband a dr there. Friend was already on antibiotics, trouble breathing horrible cough. Anyway they measured her oxygen, it was good, and sent her home (NO TEST!!!). It’s big U hospital, trauma for county etc. I couldn’t believe they didn’t test her. My neurologist ex-friend (major covidian) was shocked they didn’t admit her. She was pretty sick. I told her at the time be thankful they didn’t admit you. Anyway she’s fine. But no test, major hospital. And hospital was empty. All physicians around here said so. We’re small community big U hospital. 2) those bad couple hospitals some that have since closed I know you must’ve looked at in Queens Elmont etc WERE overflowing (they’re small anyway) and it was exactly in areas with conditions you’re suspecting… Now what I know happened (was in paper too, pretty sure I have handful of screenshots) was that they started to transfer those patients out here. Our small hospitals with not tons of beds with a few patients doubled and tripled through transfers. St Charles, Mather prob sb some. But I particularly remember it was to small hospitals who would reach capacity pretty quickly with transfers. Have few nurse friends at those hospitals that were bracing for those patients. 3) Then built were the five enormous field hospitals on campus. Never even got beds. Took them down last year. Ran them with generators no beds, no patients, 24 security for years…costs to state astronomical. Went relatively unnoticed except by a few. I only know of a couple of friends’, dad and an uncle that unfortunately ended up dying in hospital and an athlete’s dad. Out of all the people that were supposed to sick around here at that time. No way. You are exactly right. It doesn’t add up.

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Wanted to add couple things in case it sparks anything to look at. Looking back through my texts for newspaper screen shots etc and found an exchange with a family member, who live out of state and were checking in. I was in major scrutiny mode so when I was asked about illness in our area I responded that they were transferring hospital patients from NY to LI as I said in first post. This was on April 6, 2020. Then I wrote “so the state is reporting where someone dies. Not where they live.” Because my whole out of state family was probably thinking we were on deaths door of the virus. I continued saying as nyc fills they transfer to Nassau AND are directing people to those hospitals as well instead of in the city closer by and then as Nassau fills to Suffolk. I also noted in response to the transfers, and I had forgotten this “They were trying to report only nassau resident deaths separately and got kybashed”. My relative said sounds like a mess and I said quote “Yeah and this article doesn’t even talk about moving patients. The iron fist wants the numbers spread out and off nyc”. I look back and can’t even believe I said that and that was on April 7th 2020! Regarding the numbers jumping up in our area, which was what my relatives were concerned about I wrote “The numbers jumped bc they’re using our hospitals both by ambulance and directing patients to drive to(plus moving patients out of full hospitals) and when someone dies they count the death in the county where they die. Counties basically said ok we’ll count what hospital they’re in not where they live. The article says they don’t have time to count the way they have, but I would bet a million it was pressure from Cuomo to stop counting that way.” I wrote that April 7, 2020! It was fishy as hell at the time to me because there were not a bunch of sick people around and I’m by a big hospital! I’m very glad you’re doing what you’re doing.

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