This hospital needed another COVID-19 patient. So they used a car crash victim
Ben Gordon was driving in his neighborhood of Rimrock, Arizona on January 30th when his car collided, knocking him unconscious. He came to, and aside from some cuts around his head from shattered glass, was unharmed.
When an ambulance was called to the scene, the paramedic approached Gordon with a needle and attempted to inject him. Gordon protested and asked the EMT what was in the syringe. The EMT replied, “Don’t worry, I’m just going to sedate you,” and injected Gordon with the serum.
Gordon woke up about seven hours later in Flagstaff Medical Center in Flagstaff, Arizona. He’d been airlifted from the scene of the car accident via helicopter.
He was shocked to realize that he’d been intubated and was connected to intravenous drips and a catheter. Instinctively, he pulled them out, injuring himself in the process, and got out of bed.
Video by journalist Jim Stone
He looked around and tried to assess which ward he was in, though it did not look like a COVID ward.
He left the room and found the nurses on duty, who simply looked at him in shock for a moment. Gordon asked them what he was doing there and why he was intubated, to which a nurse replied, “You have COVID!”
Gordon then demanded to know what was in the IV drip and what drugs were administered. He was told that he had been administered propofol, fentanyl and morphine.
“Nobody came in with a calming presence, nobody came to tell me what happened with a timeline, they said nothing,” Gordon recalls. Eventually, he was told that they had contacted a family member to say that Gordon had a broken nose and acute pancreatitis, neither of which he had. They did not tell the family member about the ventilation for COVID-19.
Gordon insisted on leaving and was released after passing a urine test. He was directed to leave through a heavy metal door in an obscure corner of the hospital instead of the glass sliding doors in front.
He was not provided with any paperwork, so he sent a records release request via certified mail to the hospital on Saturday. Gordon was told that his request was not received.
“I think that they had no intention for me to ever wake up,” says Gordon. “And I would have been classified and counted as someone that died of COVID in the hospital.”
Incentives for hospitals to log COVID-19 patients and deaths have been gaining widespread attention lately, particularly since Dr. Robert Malone discussed it on Joe Rogan’s podcast in December.
“The numbers are quite large,” the architect of mRNA technology told Rogan. “There’s something like a $3,000 basically death benefit to a hospital if it can be claimed to be COVID. There’s a financial incentive to call somebody COVID positive.”
“They also receive a bonus—I think the total is something like $30,000 in incentive—if somebody gets put on the vent,” Malone added. “Then they get a bonus, if somebody is declared dead with COVID.”
