Utah Protesters Claim Hospitals Are Killing People Who Have COVID
And infected patients coming into the hospital are much more hostile than they were before.
STEPHANIE MENCIMER
Senior Reporter
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Greg Johnson is standing on the corner of State Street in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, holding a neatly stenciled sign that says, “COVID-19 Protocols Killed My Uncle.” Behind him looms the Intermountain Medical Center, the largest hospital in the region. Johnson is one of about 30 people who’ve come to protest Saturday because they believe that the hospital is murdering people with the coronavirus by putting them on ventilators, injecting them with the anti-viral Remdesivir, and refusing to give them intravenous vitamin C or the deworming drug Ivermectin.
It’s the latest in the ongoing COVID-related protests that have popped up since the beginning of the pandemic, as residents have fought mask and vaccine mandates and lockdowns in a state that has imposed few public health restrictions. For a while last year, Utah had escaped the worst of COVID that throttled places like New York. But that’s changed, as big swaths of the population refused the vaccine and the more contagious Delta variant has swept through the state.
Only 66 percent of Utah residents over 12 have been vaccinated, which is on par with the rate nationally, but that figure drops closer to 30 percent in many rural counties where cases have been spiking. Hospital ICUs have been running at capacity since the late summer, as the number of patients being treated for COVID has jumped 300 percent since June. Just in the week ending October 15, 75 people in the state succumbed to the virus, and the Utah Department of Health estimates that in the past month, unvaccinated people in the state were 12.6 times more likely to die from COVID than vaccinated residents.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/utah-protesters-claim-hospitals-are-killing-people-who-have-covid/
So a "guy" that supports a "guy" that hasn't paid his grazing fees and left the taxpayers holding the proverbial bag is his hero....figures....wonder if and when he got his vaccinations when he was kid to help him get his degree later in his life...
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