Philadelphia St. Christopher’s Children’s Hospital Suffer’s Triple Public Health Whammy
The misguided and ill-conceived public health response imposed by the Philadelphia Board of Public Health is coming home to roost. And according to St. Christopher’s Children’s Hospital in North Philadelphia its landing is very hard.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer the hospital has never experienced anything like it as parents wait with their children for more than 10 hours to be seen by a staff shattered by Covid protocols. Dr. James Reingold, head of the hospital’s ER told the paper he’s never seen such server asthma cases in his twenty years of practice. “The children here are way sicker. I had several children who truly frightened me, and I do not scare easy,”
What the Inquirer fails to understand is this hospital, that relies on Medicaid for 87% of its billing, has been torpedoed by the Covid staff crunch. This comes on top of a 2019 bankruptcy and later sale to Drexel University and Tower Health a corporate health system based in Reading, PA. Many hospital staff have left because of Philadelphia’s Covid “vaccine” mandate, that many nurses understood was not in their or their patient’s best interest.
Many left, some taking travel nurse positions that did not require the Covid shots. Other staff were burned out and shocked at the harmful CDC required protocols like venting patients to protect staff, Remdesivir, forcefully barring any family from seeing their loved ones or after discovering the push to label a patient a Covid case due to perverse incentives paid out by Medicare/Medicaid.
New hires, like those for Philly public schools or any city staffing position simply refused a contract if forced to take the Covid shots. Few people who have done some research want to be employed under these dangerous conditions.
Simple put St Christopher’s Children’s hospital is running at less than one third of its designed capacity!
Only 10 beds are usable of the ER’s 34 bed capacity. If staffing were normal this ER could handle the 100 children it has been seeing in recent days.
Why the sudden increase in respiratory illness amongst children? The general consensus among doctors is there was an immunity gap created by the City’s public health directive to lockdown our society that trapped children in their homes for most of last year and kept them socially distanced when in the company of other children.
How lockdown became a public health practice, despite no scientific support, is a question PA-CHD hopes the Philadelphia Board of will some day answer. Now we are beginning to see public health’s ad hoc experimental science playing out.
Another cause for the explosion could be the wide spread push for children, as young as 6 months, to get the Covid-19 “vaccine” which both Pfizer and Moderna’s trial’s demonstrated raises RSV bronchiolitis noticeably. Even children who never received these shots but live with parents, adults and other children who did may put them at elevated risk for RSV. This secondary route to inoculation was first discovered in Pfizer’s documentation that these novel medicines have self spreading capabilities or shed active ingredients.
And to top off the list of self inflicted harm that can come from misguided public health policy there is now ample research, even from the CDC, that children receiving the CDC vaccine schedule have an elevated risk for asthma. More about the studies of vaxed v. unvaxed
Public health policy must reach a point soon where some reflection on the heavy handed solutions that they demanded are finally brought under the microscope.