Dehydration and starvation
Denial of food, water, or any nutrition. Given diuretics or laxatives.
These testimony clips are drawn from interviews conducted by CHBMP with families and survivors. Each clip stands as evidence and remembrance. We share them to honor those who came forward, to seek accountability, and to ensure these experiences are never forgotten.
“"The way they managed, the blood sugar is, you know, sometimes it was way high, other times it was so low they had to give him glucose because it became hypoglycemic.”
From the testimony of Ed Hodges
“"And when that came up, I ended up messaging him, and I asked him if he had been given that. And he told me, yes. Why? And he just sounded so matter of fact like, why are you asking that? And I just knew at that point that I couldn't tell him, you know, what this drug was doing. And and, it that ended up being, gosh, I think September eleventh or twelfth was the last day that he had been given that, and I was able to see him on the twelfth. When I was finally able to see him, I just noticed he he did not he did not look well. He looked like he had lost quite a bit of weight... I asked the nurse to weigh him. I said, why hasn't he been weighed? And, she ended up weighing him, and he had lost thirty one pounds in the thirteen days that he was in the hospital.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"And in addition to this, he had he had developed sepsis. And I believe with everything in me, it was from that bed store. It was at at this point, it had been a stage four, and then it was the next level where they can't they can't even judge it. I forget what it's called. But they also weren't addressing it. They weren't wound care wasn't seeing it. They told me that he desatted if he was turned, so they could not turn him. And and I would tell them that if you don't turn him, he's going to get a severe infection, and that's going to take him. So you've got to try something, and they didn't.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"He obviously couldn't eat and feed himself, so I just they needed to do something else. And that's when I just started to see that the care wasn't there. I didn't know exactly what they were doing. I didn't know how bad everything was, but I knew there was at least neglect and that they weren't just taking care of his basic needs.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"He obviously couldn't eat and feed himself, so I just they needed to do something else. And...but I knew there was at least neglect and that they weren't just taking care of his basic needs.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"And I just knew he had lost weight, and I saw his chart, and it still showed his pre preadmitted weight to the hospital. ... he had lost thirty one pounds in the thirteen days that he was in the hospital.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"I think was the, I forget the exact term they used, but it was indicating we know she's not getting enough nutrition. And, frankly, we should have known she had lost an unnatural amount of weight in that month... one of them was a diuretic. So she you're not giving her water plus you're giving her a diuretic... there were just so many anomalies that did not follow traditional medical practice.”
From the testimony of Carolyn Carroll
“"I forget the exact term they used, but it was indicating we know she's not getting enough nutrition... we should have known she had lost an unnatural amount of weight in that month... plus you're giving her a diuretic. Do I need to explain to you how this works?... what were we asking for? We were asking for an increase of aspirin from a baby dosage to an adult dosage. But no, we can't give her that because it might do her harm.”
From the testimony of Carolyn Carroll
“"I know that some families suspect that their loved ones died of unnecessary ventilation... in fact, my mother did end up with that and was septic at the end.”
From the testimony of Carolyn Carroll
“"the physician taking care of my dad, gave my father four rounds of remdesivir. And on top of that, they tied him in restraints, didn't feed him, and then, put him on a ventilator. And the nurse... is the same nurse that violently ended his life in front of us.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"the physician taking care of my dad, gave my father four rounds of remdesivir. And on top of that, they tied him in restraints, didn't feed him, and then, put him on a ventilator. And the nurse, the one nurse that did all of this is the same nurse that violently ended his life in front of us. Her name is Sarah Grice. Interestingly enough, after this nurse did what she did, she got in her car and drove away fleeing the scene of the crime while still in her makeup, her her Bernie, her gown, her face mask, everything. She was she got the heck out of there.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"But going through here, there were so many things that that I didn't know about until later, obviously. But the whole time that he was in the ER, it shows that he was in the ER, and they never gave him anything other than oxygen... I think they were withholding any kind of, liquid for him... It says that he was septus too. But on here, whenever he came in, his temperature was only ninety eight point seven... And then also to come find out that he was never seen by an actual doctor in the hospital. It says that he was seen by iPad... How in the world you can go into a hospital and be in the CPU and a doctor never physically examine you is just... I mean, that's horrific. That's neglect. There's so much that was done... but the one time that I spoke to a doctor, he never mentioned that. But in here, he says that he told me that my husband was critical.”
From the testimony of Michael E. Pilgrim
“"the whole time that he was in the ER, it shows that he was in the ER, and they never gave him anything other than oxygen... so I think they were withholding any kind of, liquid for him... and it was vitamins... but yet they're saying he septus... and also to come find out that he was never seen by an actual doctor in the hospital... How in the world you can go into a hospital and be in the CPU and a doctor never physically examine you is just... I mean, that's horrific. That's neglect.”
From the testimony of Michael E. Pilgrim
“"some of the things that helped me out was my wife did get me in... my wife actually got me quercetin in the hospital.”
From the testimony of Kevin Tyykila
“"To my knowledge, he had not eaten anything at all since he'd been there. They were giving him Ensure, which as we know is just chemicals and sugar.”
From the testimony of James Bradford McDonald
“"Yeah. He he could have totally signed it. He was awake. He was coherent. He was having we were having conversations. He was literally I mean, yes. He I thought yeah. When when he was at home, we thought he had, you know, just kinda worked himself and was dehydrated. But at the hospital, he was sitting up. He was talking to us. He could've easily have signed it.”
From the testimony of Raul Osuna
“"As soon as we got there, we said if he tests positive for COVID, we want ivermectin. We want hydroxychloroquine... Well, you know, we don't do that here... They just gave us little plastic cup and saying he can have just a little bit of water. We like to treat our COVID patients on the drier side. That's what they kept saying.”
From the testimony of Raul Osuna
“"over the next few days, they weren't giving him food. They gave him Jell O, and just liquids. And he was very, very weak. He kept getting weaker... he never had a sheets changed. He had sores all over his body.”
From the testimony of Daniel Van Ackeren
“"They literally lied to me and told me that they used ivermectin with her. Well, I was a little smarter than that. After everything was said and done, I went and got her medical records. She was never given ivermectin. She got five doses of Remdesivir... they hadn't used nothing on her lungs to loosen the phlegm, pneumonia, whatever in her lungs... all they do is leave me here and feed me this... she wasn't getting enough nutrients.”
From the testimony of Shannon Marie Jordan McDonald
“"You know, she has sent my husband into a terrible decline, you know, under her care in the last few days because she stopped all of his treatments... you don't stop IV fluids and the blood thinner medications.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"First of all, he had lost a tremendous amount of weight, which I did not know, until I got the medical records. [...] In about in fourteen days in fourteen days, he lost thirty six pounds. [...] And then the sore that she told me about wasn't just a sore. It was a hole, basically, in the bridge of his nose. [...] and people are being rude to him in there and, you know, treating him terribly because he was unvaccinated.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"So Thursday, we had a Zoom call. He was feeling great. Sunday, he was on death's door. He was massively, massively dehydrated and very heavily sedated.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"I was very unhappy with, what doctor Ku had done to my husband. Furious, irate, just outraged... I said, is he dehydrated? He said, massively. I said, that's because doctor Ku removed all of his IV fluids over the weekend.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix