Unvaccinated patient dies after battle with Mercy Hospital
by Yudi Sherman
Scott Quiner, whose hospitalization from COVID-19 recently gained widespread attention, died Saturday. His death follows a turbulent legal battle after Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota tried to take Quiner off life-saving ventilation, allegedly due to Quiner not having been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine.
While Mercy Hospital does not admit to this in court documents, Quiner’s wife, Anne, suggests that the attempt to remove her husband from the ventilator may have been a punitive measure in response to him being unvaccinated. On one phone call, Dr. Linda Soucie of Mercy Hospital is recorded as saying to Mrs. Quiner: “Unfortunately, if we could turn back time and he had gotten the vaccine, then he wouldn’t be here,” after Soucie had told Anne that “Scott’s...not going to make it.”
Doctors also told Quiner in a recorded conference call on January 13 that her husband was not going to recover due to having destroyed lungs from COVID pneumonia, and that they would be taking Scott off the ventilator.
Anne sent these recordings to Minnesota State Representative Shane Mekeland and her patient advocate. They contacted Stew Peters, host of The Stew Peters Show podcast, who contacted Anne.
“He told me, ‘If you don’t get social media involved and get this viral, they will kill your husband and you won’t have any say in it at all,’” said Quiner. Peters then broke the story to his large following. Within hours, Mercy Hospital had received over 300,000 calls and had to shut down their phone lines. The hospital also started denying that Scott Quiner was even a patient there.
The Stew Peters Show assembled a team for Quiner, including legal counsel who were able to secure a temporary restraining order just before the 48-hour deadline, preventing Mercy Hospital from removing Scott off the ventilator.
Curiously, the hospital countered Quiner’s motion by saying that her position was not “based on medical science” and requested that the judge grant authorization to take Scott Quiner off ventilation. The judge, however, ruled in favor of Quiner, and Anne had Scott transferred on January 15 to an undisclosed hospital in Texas.
According to Anne Quiner and her lawyer, Marjorie Holsten, the medical team at the new hospital was “horrified” by Scott’s condition when he arrived. Scott was described by doctors as being severely dehydrated and malnourished to the point where he was 30 pounds underweight.
“One doctor said he didn’t know how Scott made it out of that hospital alive,” Quiner said. “He looked at his chart and said, ‘I can’t believe the heavy, sedating drugs they put him on.’”
Holsten said that the late treatment protocol rigidly followed by the medical staff at Mercy Hospital “very likely killed many people.”
This saga comes amid swirling controversy surrounding the incentives that hospitals receive for COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Dr. Robert Malone, an immunologist, virologist and contributor to the mRNA vaccine, confirmed on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast in December that due to such legislation as the CARES Act, hospitals
receive a bonus of around $30,000 if they put a COVID patient on a ventilator. They receive a further $3,000 death benefit if a patient is declared dead due to COVID.
Hospitals also get incentives to prescribe certain medications like remdesivir, against the recommendations of prominent doctors worldwide who say that early treatment protocols such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin can be life-saving early treatments.
These revelations have called into question the numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths being reported by hospitals and the mainstream media.
