The World Health Organization must be held accountable for this unethical recommendation to sacrifice suspected COVID-19 patients by using this as an infection mitigation strategy—especially since it had become apparent it was a death sentence within weeks of the pandemic outbreak. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Within weeks of the pandemic outbreak, it had become apparent that the standard practice of putting COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation was a death sentence—76.4 percent of COVID-19 patients (aged 18 to 65) in New York City who were placed on ventilators died. Among patients over age 65 who were vented, the mortality rate was 97.2 percent.
The recommendation to place COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation as a first-line response came from the World Health Organization (WHO), which allegedly based its guidance on experiences and recommendations from doctors in China. But venting COVID-19 patients wasn’t recommended because it increased survival. It was to protect health care workers by isolating the virus inside the vent machine.
Data suggest around 10,000 patients died with COVID-19 in NYC hospitals after being put on ventilators in spring 2020. Other metropolitan areas also saw massive spikes in deaths among younger individuals who were at low risk of dying from COVID-19. It’s possible many of these deaths were the result of being placed on mechanical ventilation.
The WHO must be held accountable for its unethical recommendation to sacrifice suspected COVID-19 patients by using ventilation as an infection mitigation strategy—especially considering they’re now trying to get unilateral power and authority to make pandemic decisions without local input.
Showing how the WHO’s recommendation to put patients on mechanical ventilation resulted in needless death among people who weren’t at great risk of dying from COVID-19 is perhaps one of the most powerful talking points a country can use to argue for independence and rejection of the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Within weeks of the pandemic outbreak, it had become apparent that the standard practice of putting COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation was a death sentence.1…