You can read that paper here.
This should not comes as a shock to any regular OffG reader - or indeed anyone who tried to keep themselves informed during the "pandemic". Mechanical ventilation is not a treatment for respiratory infection, and quite often makes the situation worse.
Deliberate, institutional misuse of mechanical ventilation probably killed huge numbers of patients during the so-called "first wave". We cover this in great detail in our "40 Facts" covid cribsheet.
Predictably enough, though, mainstream talking heads are not ready to admit this, and the Northwestern paper has produced a wave of somewhat fevered revisionism among the dwindling covidiot class.
See, for example, this tweet from "Dr Craig Spencer":
Ironically, while he is accusing others of revisionism, he is the one rewriting history. Ventilators were never recommended for treating Covid, but rather for preventing transmission.
The WHO, CDC, NHS and ECDC all published guidelines instructing healthcare workers to put "Covid patients" on respirators as early as possible, and in every case it was classed as an "infection control measure".
This is not new information, it was all known at the time.
Further, it was known, that this policy was potentially doing harm, having been reported in mainstream articles (such as this one from Time or this one from The Spectator) as early as April 2020.
But it's not just the "ventilators saved lives" crowd who are rewriting history, even this new discussion recognizing the role ventilators played in Covid stops several steps short of the truth, characterizing it as a mistake or a panic reaction.
It was neither. It was deliberate policy.
This was recorded by whistle-blowers and becomes glaringly obvious when you consider that, in the US, the CARES Act paid out bonus money to hospitals for ventilating "covid patients".
So no, it is not revisionism to blame ventilators for many of the deaths usually attributed to "Covid", that was obviously true, and widely known, at the time.
Real revisionism is pretending there was no way anyone could have known the harm that was being done, or to close your eyes to the fact it was all done on purpose.
Reader Comments
Usually they avoid the hard truths.
My background is Micro/Mol.Biology and yes I worked on Corona in the 90s grad school rotation.
So mild we didn't even use a glove hood on wild type virus just a laminar flow micro hood.
Guess what, there's NO way to modify the genome to any significant extent and have any decent replication.
Therefore... Doctor Evil did NOT make the imaginary covid, he worked on a toxic injection instead - autoimmune forming - to give random morbidity and mortality to cover his tracks.
Even without my background it would/shoulda been obvious - with the most basic knowledge of what a real pandemic looks like.
Quote regarding use of ventilators on "covid" patients: " It was deliberate policy." Also the use of remdesivir.
Cuomo in NY was claiming there aren't enough ventilators. What is the Frame? Ventilators save people who can't get enough oxygen. Why did HCQ and ivermectin work? They reduced the over-immune reaction or cytokine storm in the lungs.
Their answer; "We don't have Television"
I thought it summed up the insanity of English society perfectly.
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By July of 2021 the Johns Hopkins institute found zero healthy children had died from COVID [Link]
In fact there are countless cases where government and/or health agencies have admitted that the 'media' death toll from COVID has been highly inflated for years [Link] , [Link] , [Link] ,
My own experiences in the medical system as COVID came and went have proven to me that only elderly and/or unhealthy people died during the 'epidemic', and that the media description of hospitals filled to the brim was all lies. [Link]
Bullshite artists are everywhere, even here commenting on SOTT.