How Hospitals Became Prisons: The Truth About COVID Hospital Protocols

Writer Stella Paul in Connecticut on Sep. 9, 2023. Patrick Mauler/The Epoch Times

In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek meets with Stella Paul, the pen name for a writer investigating what she describes as “deadly” hospital protocols during the pandemic—and the financial incentives behind them. Ms. Paul has spent 15 years covering medical topics.

Jan Jekielek: You’ve been doing remarkable work looking at the hospital deaths that happened around COVID-19. How did you get involved in this?

Stella Paul: When COVID hit, my husband had been living in a nursing home for six years in New York City. And when Governor Cuomo signed an executive order forcing nursing homes to take COVID patients, people in his home began dying immediately. Through a series of miracles, on April 1, 2020, we got my husband into one of the best hospitals in the state.

The hospital had put together its own package of hydroxychloroquine plus, and it worked. In five days, he was back in the nursing home. So on April 1, 2020, it was known that hydroxychloroquine worked and none of these other protocols we lived through—the lockdowns, the shattered lives, all the tragedies—were necessary.

For the next 10 months, my husband lived in that nursing home in total isolation. He never felt the sunlight on his face. He never saw an unmasked face because the staff were masked. In January 2021, they brought out the vaccine. The first place that got it was the nursing homes. I begged my husband not to take it. I’d done my research, knew it was dangerous, and begged my husband not to take it. He took it, and eight days later, he had a heart attack.

So I identify with the people who lost loved ones in the hospital. I know it wasn’t necessary. I feel their grief and their emotional torture, and I want to help them.

Mr. Jekielek: The protocols often used for people admitted to the hospital were only supposed to be for the very, very ill. Let’s dive into that.

Ms. Paul: The first thing that allowed this to happen was that hospitals were shut down to all elective procedures. They were told they couldn’t do things like hip replacements or stents. The normal big money makers of the hospital disappeared, which is very relevant to what happened.

And families weren’t allowed to be there. You were sick and terrified, and your family wasn’t there to protect you.

Then came the PREP Act [Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act]. It was activated when COVID was declared an official emergency. With that, anything goes legally—any medication, treatment, or action by the staff—because it’s an emergency. Put that together with a patient being alone without help, and you’ve got a bad combination.

Mr. Jekielek: Please tell us about Remdesivir. How did this protocol play out?

Ms. Paul: It was financially incentivized by the CARES Act [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act], which is $2.2 trillion to deal with COVID and hundreds of billions going to the hospitals. But for the hospitals to collect that big money, they had to do certain treatments. The government paid out huge bonuses if they used Remdesivir and if they ventilated. Both those treatments are extremely dangerous and often fatal, but the government paid for them.

If you’re admitted into the hospital with COVID, the money meter starts going. The hospital receives a 20 percent boost in the bill if they give you Remdesivir, and that’s a lot of money. Remdesivir destroys the kidneys. It’s acquired the nickname, “Run, Death is Near,” because it quickly became obvious that it was killing patients. It was Dr. Anthony Fauci who said, “This is the drug I want to be the first and only emergency-use-authorized, FDA-approved drug for COVID.”

One important point to mention is that there was no informed consent in the hospitals. Word got around quickly that Remdesivir was deadly, so patients started showing up at the hospitals saying they didn’t want it. They had signs saying, “No Remdesivir.”

Rebecca Stevens, for example, was an avid reader of The Epoch Times who heard about Remdesivir from you. She said, “No Remdesivir” five separate times, and that is documented in her medical records. They gave it to her anyway, and they didn’t tell her. Now, her five grandsons don’t have their grandma.

Many groups are working on this, like the COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal Memory Project (CHBMP.org). They’ve gotten a thousand testimonies so far, and they’re getting more every day. You can find them online. People who lost their loved ones in the hospital have volunteered to get testimonies from other families. It’s painful for them, but they’re doing it. They have analyzed them and found 25 commonalities.

Mr. Jekielek: Please tell me what some of the commonalities are.

Ms. Paul: One commonality is that they isolate you from your family, then they give you Remdesivir. They use the resulting shutdown of your kidneys and retention of fluids to say, “You can’t handle food and water now.” Then they starve and dehydrate these people. It’s horrible. They are told, “You’re sick with COVID,” but they’re not treating you for COVID.

The next step is ventilation. It was a big-ticket item in terms of the financial incentives. Ventilation is horrible and painful. You get intubated and you lose your ability to speak and communicate.

With intubation, you couldn’t speak to your family on the phone anymore. That was another one of the 25 commonalities. In some places, they hid your phone or they put your phone and your call button deliberately out of reach. They didn’t want you communicating.

Mr. Jekielek: Any final thoughts?

Ms. Paul: I want to leave this interview with a tribute to the wonderful people at the COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal Memory Project. They’ll help you find a support group if you need one.

This interview was edited for clarity and brevity.