Ali Shultz’s firsthand experience with hospital COVID-19 treatment protocols ignited her effort to help those who have found themselves being treated as experimental subjects that bring in federal reimbursements, rather than patients.
“It’s not so much a protocol as it’s a modus operandi,” Shultz told The Epoch Times.
Both her mother-in-law and father-in-law were admitted to separate hospitals at the same time for COVID-19 in Arizona. Though her father-in-law escaped, her mother-in-law died as a direct result of the protocols, Shultz alleged.
From this experience came Hands for Health and Freedom (HHF), a patient advocacy organization Shultz said she founded to thwart a trend of authoritarian medical treatment that hijacked the medical profession during COVID-19.
Shultz, HHF chairwoman and CEO, alleged that her father-in-law, Chuck Shultz, who was admitted on Aug. 20, 2021, was deprived of nourishment for six days.
Eventually, Chuck was able to receive electrolyte water, but Shultz said it came only after she had to plead for it.
Without informed consent, he was experimented on, given morphine despite explicit refusal, and secluded for 24 days, she said.
Just as it was with her mother-in-law, Shultz said she felt like Chuck was being punished because of his refusal to be treated with remdesivir.
“It’s known to cause kidney toxicity and failure, which ultimately leads to more pulmonary congestion,” Shultz said.
Shultz said she had almost given in to allowing Chuck to be treated with remdesivir when a physician told her that if she had permitted the remdesivir, Chuck would get hydration.
The fact that remdesivir is pushed by physicians as the leading treatment for COVID-19 despite its bad track record could have to do with its federal reimbursements.
Arizona Medical Board
Shultz filed a complaint against the hospital in October 2021, and on Sept. 1, 2022, the Arizona Medical Board heard her three-minute presentation.The board dismissed the case the next day.
The Arizona Medical Board did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.
Shultz told the board her father-in-law’s standard of care had been purposely lowered, with coordinated restrictions on visiting rights.
“On multiple occasions, there were discrepancies and contradictions in his record,” she said.
Chuck was told he needed to be put on a ventilator or he would die, Shultz said.
“Our refusal of the [ventilator] is one of the main reasons I feel he is alive today,” Shultz said.
Despite multiple attempts by the hospital to stop Chuck from leaving, Chuck’s family was able to coordinate an escape on Sept. 16, and he is now home and doing well after taking ivermectin, Shultz said.
“We ended up getting him out only by saying he was going home on hospice with 20 minutes notice,” she said. “We had the equipment and transport care set up, and we were able to get my brother-in-law into the hospital to help get him out.”
Shultz said he had not been given basic hygiene care during his entire 27-day stay.
At one point, Shultz was escorted out of the hospital by security when she attempted to see Chuck, she said.
‘They Murdered Her’
Just as when she tried to see her father-in-law, Shultz said she was handcuffed and taken out of the hospital when she tried to see her mother-in-law, Christi Shultz, who checked into a separate hospital in Arizona for COVID-19 treatment on Aug. 22, 2021.“They murdered her,” Shultz said.
For the family, it had become clear that Christi was not going to make it, so they decided that it would be better for her to not die in the hospital, but at her barn surrounded by family and her horses, Shultz said.
The family was able to say goodbye in person before Christi died of kidney failure on Sept. 7, 2021.
“Hospitals don’t have the right to take that away from a family,” Shultz said. “No one should have to die alone in a hospital.”
Like Chuck’s, Christi’s medical records had been altered, Shultz said.
Because of the altered records, Shultz said she can’t say for sure that her mother-in-law was given remdesivir, but that she thinks it’s safe to assume so because her mother-in-law died of kidney failure.
“They called me in the middle of the night and said that because she coded, she had to be vented or she would die, and I fell for it, which is something I’m still trying to work through,” she said.
After reading her medical records, Shultz alleges that she found hospital staff lied to Shultz frequently while they were keeping Christi on narcotics like morphine, fentanyl, and midazolam.
“They are drugging these people to death,” Shultz said.
Today, her work is focused on making sure no one has to experience these “death protocols,” she said.
“I had a lot of incredible people helping me during that time, and I felt like I needed to pay it forward,” Shultz said. “We’ve helped over 100 families get out of hospitals, and thousands of families advocate for their rights while in the hospitals. Every single person we helped get out of the hospital lived.”
The hospitals did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.
‘Being Done With Malice’
Among those who assisted Shultz was Todd Callender, an international attorney with the Colorado law firm Disabled Rights Advocates (DRA) that has been representing those who have been facing multiple issues stemming from the vaccine mandate.DRA is serving as counsel for two medical freedom organizations—the Truth for Health Foundation spearheaded by Dr. Lee Vliet and the resource hub Vaxxchoice—that have worked together to circumnavigate the mandates and hospital protocols.
If hospitals want to receive federal reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, they have to go by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocols using the given codes from the International Classification of Diseases (ICE-10), Callender told The Epoch Times.
Complex COVID-19 patients who are put through the protocols can bring an average charge rate of up to $500,000 for a hospital, which many have argued incentivizes physicians to use the these protocols, even when they know they aren’t working.
Not only that, Callender said, it appears that the implementation of the protocols has been carried out with a parallel plan for legal immunity for hospitals using the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act.
The immunity granted by the PREP Act, Callender said, doesn’t allow families to sue for COVID-19 claims in state courts, so hospital attorneys are pushing the cases into federal courts.
However, Callender said some federal courts are deciding that if there is pure negligence without any allegation related to COVID-19, then the case can return to the state courts because there’s no federal remedy for negligence.
“Pure negligence is a state claim, so what we’re seeing with hospital attorneys moving the case to federal court is the federal courts pushing it back to state courts, saying ‘Yes, this is negligence or malpractice conduct on the part of the hospital as it relates to non-COVID treatment and the PREP Act doesn’t apply,” Callender said. “This has been a welcome breath for us because what we’ve come to find is that while hospitals enjoyed that immunity, they didn’t care about the wellbeing of patients.”
Examples of this, Callender said, are found in testimonies and medical records that report deprivation of fluids and nutrients.
“Almost all of the people who die in these hospitals under these COVID protocols are starved to death,” Callender said. “They are overdosed on drugs and dehydrated even if they don’t go on the ventilator.”
No reasonable physician would decide that the best way to make a sick person better is to dehydrate, starve, and overdose a patient on fentanyl, Callender said.
“But those are the actions that are being protected under immunity found in the PREP Act,” Callender said. “And it’s all being done with malice aforethought.”
Callender proposed that physicians in these hospitals know what they’re doing.
“Every doctor using the protocols knows damn well remdesivir is dangerous, so how is it that we are somehow in the kindness of our hearts assuming these doctors couldn’t be so evil?” Callender asked. “And the reality is they’re just turning a blind eye.”
Physicians now operate as mere servants to the ICD-10 codes “the computer spits out,” Callender said.
Protocols Enforced
And these protocols are enforced, Callender said.“That’s why when Ali [Shultz] calls the local sheriff to come do a welfare check on her mom, the next thing she knew the cops are there to arrest her,” Callender said.
Shultz proposed that there is a way to override these directives handed down to local law enforcement agencies by connecting with each member of law enforcement as a person and asking what they would personally want for their family.
Nuremberg Code and Geneva Convention
Shultz said federally funded hospitals are violating the Nuremberg Code, which outlined 10 ethical research principles for human experimentation established by the United States v. Brant case in Nuremberg, Germany, after the Second World War.The Nuremberg trials were conducted to hold Nazi physicians and scientists accountable for their experiments on people.
Experimentation shouldn’t be performed if the subject hasn’t given consent. The experiments should also be conducted without causing unnecessary pain and suffering and should not result in injury or death.
“If there is a reasonable belief that an experiment may result in disabling injury or even death, then only physicians may serve as subjects in the experiment,” according to the NIH.
Shultz also referred to the Geneva Conventions, international laws that established protections for prisoners and noncombatants in war and prohibited the use of chemical and biological weapons.
The U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996 classifies a war crime as a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, defining a “grave breach” as “killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health.”
‘A Crime Syndicate’
For Shultz, the story isn’t just about a few hospitals, but an entire “crime syndicate playing with biological weapons while committing taxpayer fraud.”“Hospital CEOs and [chief medical officers] are colluding across the hospital networks,” she said. “They are not just condoning; they are actively participating in getting medical experimentation through on patients without their knowledge or consent.”
Physicians don’t outrank the patient or the patient advocate’s direct instructions for themselves, Shultz said, and nurses have a responsibility to advocate for patients in their scope of ensuring adequate nutrition assessments and hydration requests.
“A person’s instructions with their own body can’t be denied,” Shultz said. “This is a matter of principle, not policy. Both of my parents had explicit instructions, and those were violated.”
Shultz classified a patient not allowed to leave as false imprisonment, and—in combination with isolation, malnourishment, and drugs—a form of torture, which is prohibited in the War Crimes Act.
As a solution, Shultz suggested building intentional communities with like-minded people to educate each other—as well as law enforcement, local governments, and medical professionals—on what is happening, while learning about alternative treatments that bypass the need for the medical-industrial complex.
“When these people find out that they don’t have jurisdiction over other people’s bodies and their fundamental rights, it’s going to be a rude awakening for those who have perpetuated this crime when they learn they have no immunity,” Shultz said.
