Isolated even in death
Denied access to dying victim. Denied access to view the body after death. Denial of Last Rites.
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.
“"We noticed in the last week, they were, no. Well, they weren't coming in quite as often. And we noticed that, like, the last couple of days, they finally turned him over on his back and left him. So we felt like then they thought this is it, or this is when they were gonna make it it.”
From the testimony of Sammie Hosch
“"And the hospital said, no. So and also as it turned out, even though our GP was, had privileges at that hospital, she was not allowed to see him either. Only the infectious disease doctor, was allowed to see him.”
From the testimony of Ed Hodges
“"there wasn't a machine in sight. He wasn't hooked up to anything, and he was gone.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"And while we were in that room, my husband actually crashed, and I ran out of that room. They told me I can't go see him. I ran past all the nurses, all the doctors, and I stood there holding on to him, praying with everything in me while they bagged him.”
From the testimony of Kyle Squires
“"The nurse that was speaking to my mother, her name was Donna... said the president called. He said one of you can go in the room and say goodbye.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
“"If he would have told me my husband was critical, I would have been at that hospital. I would have they would have had to have arrested me. There there's no way, in how he could be critical in sepsis. If this were the case, why wasn't I being consulted for his treatment? If if he was coherent enough to agree to all this, then he wouldn't have been as bad as what they were trying to say at the end. ... I begged him at that time, I said, I want an autopsy. And he lied to me. He told me I'm he told me, yes. You can have an autopsy, but this is Dallas County, and we're backed up. So it's gonna take six to eight months for you to do anything. ... None of us could see him. They're just telling us he died.”
From the testimony of Michael E. Pilgrim
“"And when they told me he died, I immediately got on his chart because I've been following his chart, and they immediately closed out his chart. I can no longer see anything after my son called to tell me he died. I called back. I said I can't see his chart. No one would talk to me.”
From the testimony of Michael E. Pilgrim
“"They let me go in to see him one time while he was in on the COVID floor, and they were saying that when they let you in to go see him, that means they were dying.”
From the testimony of Lawny Dale Cannon II
“"she was never able to come in. Never able to see me. And yeah, it was just it was just not a great experience.”
From the testimony of Kevin Tyykila
“"they told the the wife to leave, and then they've been in him twenty minutes later. And the record show his oxygen was in the high eighties, and then he dies, of course. And then the family gets a letter saying he was COVID negative after administering the entire COVID protocol, remdesivir and all.”
From the testimony of Sheryl Ann Contreras
“"Ups and downs. My son passed away and, during that time, and then I had a good friend pass away.”
From the testimony of James Bradford McDonald
“"No. He wasn't allowed any visitors in there either except for the short time that you had mentioned.”
From the testimony of James Bradford McDonald
“"She asked if we could come to be with him, and they said no. And she said, we are coming anyways. And so we did. When we got there, it took quite a bit to persuade the manager and the staff, and they finally allowed myself and our oldest daughter to go up... I never got to go back to be with Clare until after he died.”
From the testimony of Clare Wiersma
“"But instead, they called it Code Blue and basically carried me out of that room, took me to ER, and I never got to be to go back to be with Clare until after he died.”
From the testimony of Clare Wiersma
“"I was not allowed to see her, so I could not comfort her at that moment.”
From the testimony of Shannon Marie Jordan McDonald
“"I wanted to rest in peace, but I need to answer. So I literally found Mike Adams on a video saying do an ultrasound. So I'm like, perfect. Run an ultrasound. My brother wouldn't have it. They cremated her without doing an ultrasound.”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson
“"He over the phone says, your mom asked for morphine by name. She couldn't even open her eyes. She couldn't talk.”
From the testimony of Mary Brion
“"August fifteenth twenty twenty two, I get the phone call, the worst phone call of my entire life, and I've lost a husband who was in law enforcement. ... How is mom dead? She's on vacation. I just talked to her yesterday. ... And I knew immediately it was the vaccines because she was the only one in my family that gave me her vaccination card because I was studying the batch numbers.”
From the testimony of Julie Williamson Threet
“"No. No. Okay. They wouldn't allow anybody in. An hour after she we had to wait an hour after she passed to walk in the room.”
From the testimony of Kathleen Schwab
“"He said, you just need to come say your goodbyes. It could be any he could he could go anytime. So when he said that, I was just I I was still in shock because I thought I don't know.”
From the testimony of John Curror Fleming
“"They said, that the blood culture was negative after I prodded him forever.”
From the testimony of Gerald Lee Shirar
“"I had no more I had no further, conversation with him. I couldn't talk to him or anything. And I asked them if I could please just, you know, go and lay hands on him and tell him I was there and let him know that I was here fighting with him, and they said absolutely not.”
From the testimony of Gerald Lee Shirar
“"They paralyzed my vocal cord with the ventilator.”
From the testimony of Charlene MacCallum
“"I really couldn't believe that people would watch their parents die through a glass and not break the glass.”
From the testimony of Michael Weedman