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Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital Hardcover – August 18, 2020
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What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it?
Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski’s most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines—and this time, she found, the situation was even worse.
Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired cases of COVID-19 were spreading like wildfire.
Worse, people who had tested negative multiple times for COVID-19 were being labeled as COVID-confirmed and put on COVID-only floors. Put on ventilators and drugged up with sedatives, these patients quickly deteriorated—even though they did not have coronavirus when they checked in.
Doctors-in-training were refusing to perform CPR—and banning nurses from doing it—on dying patients whose families had not consented to “Do Not Resuscitate” orders.
Erin wasn’t about to stand by and let her patients keep dying on her watch, but she knew that if she told the truth, people wouldn’t believe her. It was just too shocking. Willing to go to battle for her patients, Erin made the decision to go deep undercover, recording conversations with other nurses, videos of malpractice, and more. She began to share what she found on social media. Unsurprisingly, she was fired for it.
Now, Erin is standing up to tell the whole horrifying story of what happened inside Elmhurst Hospital to demand justice for those who fell victim to the hospital’s greed. Not only must the staff be held accountable for their unethical actions; but also, this kind of corruption must be destroyed so that future Americans are not put at risks. The deaths have to end, and Erin won’t rest until the bad actors are exposed.
Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital is a shocking and infuriating inside exposé of the American healthcare system gone wrong. At the same time, it’s the story of a woman who traveled from the small-town streets of Wisconsin, to the battlefields of Iraq, to the mean streets of Queens, on a quest to help fight for her country. With this book, the real battle has begun.
- Print length248 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHot Books
- Publication dateAugust 18, 2020
- Dimensions6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10151076366X
- ISBN-13978-1510763661
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This book is not for the faint-hearted. It is in some ways two books in one. Each one is compelling and explains much about the CoVID-19 pandemic – both the medical and the political aspects that have become inextricably intertwined and that have affected the lives of everyone.
The Preface is written by J.B. Handley. This section is 43 pages long and includes 70 references presenting Handley’s masterful summary of 16 key FACTS about the CoVID-19 pandemic. During the five months now since my retirement from a 49-year career as a pediatrician, being pushed to a planned retirement suddenly due to the CoVID-19 related “shut-down” of the retirement home in which I live, I have invested an estimated 300 hours researching all things CoVID. I am familiar with many, if not most, of the sources from which Mr. Handley draws his conclusions, and consider them to be of a high degree of credibility and importance. Among the many aspects of CoVID-19 that have generated intense debate and controversy, with competing narratives from sometimes equally credible sounding sources, he in my estimation appropriately concludes among them the following:
• The Infection Fatality Rate for CoVID-19 is somewhere between 0.07 and 0.20 percent, in line with seasonal influenza.
• The risk of dying from CoVID-19 is very low among young and otherwise healthy individuals, but high among senior citizens and those with underlying chronic health problems.
• Individuals who are infected but asymptomatic (which is by far the largest percentage), play a minimal role in spreading the virus.
• Masks, especially the cloth masks that comprise the overwhelming majority of those worn by non- healthcare personnel, are ineffective in reducing transmission from asymptomatic individuals to others. The science overwhelmingly supports this conclusion. The opposing narrative rests primarily upon theoretical models and animal research, but actual data on transmission of the virus fails to support cloth mask wearing by asymptomatic individuals.
• Societal “lock-downs” are unprecedented with past pandemics and are based purely upon theoretical modeling, most of which have proven to be famously wrong in the CoVID-19 pandemic. The seminal leaders in the modeling predictions have been disastrously wrong.
• These lockdowns have proven to be ineffective in stopping the spread of the infection other than for brief periods in the early weeks of outbreaks in select high density populations where ‘flattening the curve” in order to mitigate overwhelming medical care systems at the onset.
• Public health authorities and disease epidemiologists, by their own profession, do not consider negative societal consequences of lockdowns, and those “collateral damages” from ongoing or renewed lockdowns have already exceeded the harm from CoVID itself. These come in the form of deaths from suicides, drug addiction/overdose, increases in crime fostered by widespread social and economic disruption, etc.
• “Phased re-openings” widely discussed and implemented for various sectors of the economy and the society are based once again, on theoretical modeling and are not based upon science.
I would add an additional relevant point here:
Many of the most contentious and controversial aspects of the pandemic have become interwoven in political considerations, financial vested interests (think new drugs and vaccines), power struggles, and following even disastrous consequences from well-intended but experience proven wrong ideas, defending these In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Examples of the latter would include continuing shut-downs, school closings, mandated mask wearing by asymptomatic, low-risk individuals, and political opposition to potentially effective therapies already used successfully (Hydroxychloroquine, especially when used early with zinc, and azithromycin).
A parenthetical note:
Mr. Handley, father of an autistic child, has written one of two books that I recommend for anyone wanting to learn more about the ever-growing threat of autism, contributing causal factors, and most importantly, things that one can do to reduce the risk of this affliction - How to End the Autism Epidemic (Chelsea Green 2018). The other is pediatrician Paul Thomas’ book The Vaccine Friendly Plan (Ballantine Books 2016), co-authored with Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D. These two books should be read by every parent or potential parent as well as pediatricians and family physicians who take care of children.
The remainder of the book is a powerful, at times very difficult, sometimes “rough” sharing of a courageous nurse who has chosen to subject herself to great risk (political and professional) by becoming a Whistleblower. Hers is an inspiring, humbling, gripping, account of speaking out, stepping up and confronting unimaginable abuse of the professional ethic of being a physician or other medical professional that she observed first-hand and finally documented with recordings in the CoVID “epicenter” hospital in New York City.
She relates personally observed and experienced abuse of medical ethics, while at the same time sharing some poignant, powerful accounts of her interactions with some of the victims of the nefarious practices she chronicles. One such description is so bittersweet and powerful that the reader cannot help but to find himself or herself weeping.
As one reads through this extraordinary book, it is well to be aware that nurse Olszewski’s personal history includes that she served her country in Iraq in brutal wartime conditions and sustained injuries that have caused her permanent disabilities – yet when she encountered the abuses of power and of patients described in this book, she found herself impelled to accept significant personal risk in order to place attention and pressure on a medical system to confront its few “bad apples that spoil the barrel” (my analogy, not hers).
Bose Ravenel, M.D., F.A.A.P. , Retired
Prefaced with J.B. Handley’s astounding summary of blood boiling real data and Covid-19 facts, Erin Marie Olszewski’s documentation of what was really happening within the hospital’s walls brings the ugly truth to light. Her honest disclosure reveals initial facility overwhelm that was compacted and overtaken by many healthcare mistakes, mismanagement, malpractice and gross negligence including situations that would be hard put not to be deemed outright patient murder in a non-bought court of law. If your loved one was put on a ventilator and or died in a healthcare setting “of Covid-19” please take care as you turn these pages. It is an overwhelming, eye opening and heart wrenching reality check that nonetheless in it’s reveal offers hope as it calls us all to see, hear and digest the real truth and take action. This nurse’s honest testament and the evidence provided by her and other healthcare whistleblowers must be investigated and judged in a fair, unbiased and unbought court of law as soon as possible so we can dismantle the current corrupt systems and uproot the many bad actors that have infiltrated our healthcare and politics. We must thoughtfully ferret out what works, prosecute the criminals and remove the practices and incentives that harm and kill patients while creating a new, truly healing and healthy healthcare system for our country.
A must read meant to be shared.
~ Regarding the harshest critics of this book, one must ask what their motivations are. What do they have to gain by encouraging others not to do their own investigation? I have found that truth tellers encourage others to do their own research, while liars threaten and dissuade others from even looking at something. Please note that one negative review was posted twice under 2 different accounts and under 2 different countries in order to deceptively be listed twice.
This review in front of you now is written by a NYC resident of 20+ years with relatives and friends employed as nurses, workers and recruiters in healthcare both within NYC as well as just outside of the area. I immediately dove into Covid-19 research and was on exceptionally high alert regarding NY government, corporation and healthcare corruption. I have a residence only a 3 mile walk from Elmhurst Hospital and can easily bike to every hospital within the city limits. So there is/was a true possibility that someone I cared about or I myself could have ended up there. Many locals never wanted to go to Elmhurst even before covid. They would literally drive themselves to another hospital before allowing an ambulance to take them there, that’s how notorious Elmhurst Hospital already was.
I highly recommend this book. I highly recommend we do our research and not blindly accept the scripted rhetoric the mainstream media or anyone else spews at us. Our health and our loved ones’ lives are worth it. And this is what this book is about. Look beyond the mantras, tag lines, tantrums and threats and do your own investigation. Get quiet and feel what really resonates even when you don’t want it to. It is your life, your health, your freedom to lose.
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Having worked in private medicine in the UK, and witnessed one patient walk in for routine surgery, then leave as a vegetable in a wheelchair after being given the wrong blood, Edelstein and her ilk don't impress me one bit since they are always the people who orchestrate the cover-ups to protect their obscene money-.
Before the current pandemic panto show, doctors had still been found to be the third leading cause of death in the US, years after the death of Dr. Starfield, the author of the original study. Who, ironically, was killed by incompetent doctors herself. Plus ça change.
After November, the gravy train stops running. People like Edelstein will no longer be required. But people like Erin will.












