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Witness to Tragedy: ‘Huge’ Financial Incentives Led Hospitals to Use COVID Treatments That Killed Patients

Zowe Smith, who left her job as a medical coder in an Arizona hospital, joined “The Defender In-Depth” to discuss how the use of ventilators and remdesivir unnecessarily caused the deaths of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals. ...

“Even when I was experiencing what I saw, it was almost unbelievable that this could even happen in a hospital,” said Smith, who first noticed abnormalities when the hospital started implementing COVID-19 protocols.

“I started noticing … patients trying to escape the hospital, like unplugging things, pulling out vent tubes and escaping … then I started to hear rumors about the ventilators and I knew that there was a bonus for [giving] remdesivir,” Smith said.

Smith said patients coming in with cold and flu symptoms were treated differently than they had been before the COVID-19 outbreak. “Before COVID, a cold, flu or pneumonia case, you would normally be home within three days, maybe a week, unless you had other major conditions.”

Before the pandemic, patients were rarely placed on ventilators. Smith said:

“Before the pandemic and the hospital protocols began, we did not connect patients to ventilators right away. It wasn’t until they were in dire straits and we had tried every other method that they would be put on a ventilator, and then they would be coming off those ventilators as soon as possible.”

But under the COVID-19 hospital protocols, patients “would be on the ventilators for 30 days or more sometimes, which was incredibly rare,” Smith said. “On top of that, they weren’t talking about disconnecting these patients from the ventilator, which should be something they’re talking about within 24 hours, because the longer you’re on, the less likely you are to come off the ventilator.”

Under the COVID-19 protocols, doctors “went straight to the ventilator” even if patient oxygen levels had not reached “the threshold where we would normally ventilate a person.”

Patients who were given remdesivir developed kidney failure within a few days. “I could see the lab values … they were getting worse almost immediately after the administration of remdesivir,” she said.

What we were not aware of was that she had been picked as one of the COVID-19 fatalities.

And yes, I said picked.

We are most assuredly aware of how you purposefully and intentionally killed her, murdered her, if I may.

She begged for water. She begged to breathe on her own. She begged for care. She begged to have someone who would listen to her.

No one would come into her room when we paged for a nurse or other hospital staff. I, her sister, was there for only two full days at two separate times and saw this firsthand.

She told me she was fearful of you. She expressed she was not being cared for. She told me this. I tried to talk to nurses. I even talked to her doctor directly.

He was East Indian. I cannot recall his name or don't know if he ever tried to even tell me. His bedside manner was horrific.

I told him my concerns. He dismissed me.

I was adamant that I knew of the COVID-19 protocols. I had done my own in-depth research.

I knew that she had asked for Ivermectin at the previous hospital. They refused to give it to her.

They asked her to take Remdesivir, what we all know has a 53% rate of causing death. It is essentially a poison. That has been widely discussed in many articles from the National Health Institutes, and the CDC, and many different media outlets from Europe and other countries....

You picked people to kill, to let die. You singled them out and separated them from their families intentionally.

They laid in agony away from loved ones and eventually began to give up the will to live. No one was there to advocate for them. No one could demand that they be fed, have water, have vitamins, and be given life-saving medication and treatment. ...

My sister was tied down. She was treated like an animal. She was treated with such inhumanity.

You did it intentionally and with extreme malice. There was no need to do that.

Can you imagine doing this to your own loved one? It is barbaric.

We took her hands out to hold them, to show her that we were there to love her, to do what we could. We knew that when we left, the nurse would put them back into the restraint.

Talk about an emotional, overwhelming situation. I was inconsolable when I left her room at the end of visiting hours. To watch someone you would die for be treated like that was inexcusable.

I was terrified that me speaking up or more making a commotion would cause them to do even more harm to her. To neglect her further.