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  • They Weren't Dying of COVID: A System Built to Kill | Ken McCarthy

    They Weren't Dying of COVID: A System Built to Kill | Ken McCarthy
    Jan 5 2026
    McCarthy is the author of the book 'What the Nurses Saw.' I asked him: "What do you think: In 50 years and 100 years, will anybody know that this happened?" This is the first part of a three part interview with author Ken McCarthy about his book "What the Nurses Saw: An Investigation Into Systemic Medical Murders That Took Place in Hospitals During the COVID Panic and the Nurses Who Fought Back to Save Their Patients." McCarthy, who became known in the 1990s for commercializing the internet and making crucial contributions to the development of online marketing, told me: "Specifically in the US, they incentivized a protocol which virtually guaranteed that people that came to the hospital with respiratory problems were going to die. Not everyone died, but over a million people died in US hospitals." And he adds: "It was systematized and it was incentivized by the federal government of the United States." One of the people that McCarthy interviewed for his book was AJ DePriest, a medical administrator and researcher who followed the money trail that led to the death of so many Americans. DePriest told him about the waivers that most people do not know about to this day. She told him that "CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) issued a series of waivers in early 2020 that allowed hospitals to do things for which they would have been sued and had the funding guts ripped out of them if they had done these things before COVID." What kind of things did these waivers enable the hospitals to do? For example hiring doctors and nurses for ICU units who were in no way qualified to work there. Or banning family members from visiting their loved ones. Or suspending the Patients' Bill of Rights and not giving water and food to Covid patients. "They had nurses working in the ICUs that hadn't even gotten their nursing degree yet. They were still students," he said. The hospital death protocols were systematized via the regulatory frameworks of the PREP Act and Emergency Use Authorizations for the PRC Test, Remdesivir and ventilators. And they were executed through the command chain from federal health agencies to hospital conglomerates to hospital administrators and from there down to doctors and nurses. DePriest told McCarthy when he interviewed her for his book: "We started following the CARES Act money to see where it was going, and we followed it trickling down through Health and Human Services to, eventually, the NIH. We discovered that the NIH published their protocols for inpatient treatment of COVID. From there, we started documenting the medications that were listed in the NIH protocols: remdesivir, Actemra, dexamethasone, baricitinib." Doctors and nurses who didn't play along, lost their jobs. All the nurses McCarthy talked to for his book "What the Nurses Saw" were fired. But almost everyone complied with the protocols. Nurses from other states who applied to work where help was needed received salaries of $10,000 per week. They were hired by medical contractor companies who also made a killing by contracting the nurses. McCarthy learnt from AJ DePriest that the contracted nurses were paid by Homeland Security. He said: "And I guess there were big pots of money available in Homeland Security. And the way it worked was there were private contractors who would arrange for the labor. They would recruit and hire and deliver the workers. Homeland Security would pay those contractors and then the contractors would pay the nurses. So the money ultimately came from Homeland Security." How the Death Protocols Were Incentivized Deaths were incentivized through a plethora of payments and bonuses. McCarthy told me: "They created a financial incentive system that incentivized medical procedures that made no medical, scientific or logical sense that were unprecedented in the history of medicine… I think that's where the vast majority of people I say were killed." For example, hospitals received huge payments for simply admitting people as Covid cases. West Virginia topped all the states with almost half a million dollars payout per Covid case. Then there were payments for administering Remdesivir, intubating people and keeping them intubated for a long time. In fact, usually until death since almost everyone intubated died: "The federal government of the United States and the medical bureaucracy and what I call medical dictatorship decreed that A, hospitals would get paid if they put somebody in intubation and B, they'd get an additional bonus if they kept them on intubation for more than 96 hours." Remdesivir also usually ended in death. Nicole Sirotek, a Nevada based nurse who came to New York City in the spring of 2020, refused to give the drug to patients and that's why she was removed from the ICU of the hospital where she worked. McCarthy said: "She refused after a short time. She said, everybody we give this drug to dies. I'm not giving anybody else this drug anymore." Sirotek was fired - like ...
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    1 h et 8 min
  • The Code That Doesn't Exist: How CDC Disappears COVID Vaccine Deaths | John Beaudoin

    The Code That Doesn't Exist: How CDC Disappears COVID Vaccine Deaths | John Beaudoin
    Jan 3 2026
    "CDC is nefarious because they set up the system and they know there are a lot more deaths than they're telling the people through data." —John Beaudoin In this interview, John Beaudoin and I dive into the CDC's mortality database that is part of its WONDER platform and find things in there that are, well, wondrous. But only in the sense that what you find makes you wonder. And way more than that: what you find are glaring signs of something horrific being covered up. WONDER, in case you're wondering, is a web based public platform where anyone can query and download U.S. public-health data. The acronym stands for 'Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research.' They must have started with the oh so cute acronym and then done some serious brainstorming to find a string of words to match. According to WONDER's mortality data, not one American died of adverse effects of the Covid-19 vaccines. Not a single one. Isn't that wonderful? VAERS, The CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is also part of WONDER. But according to VAERS, around 50,000 people so far died of the Covid-19 vaccines. And VAERS has an underreporting factor estimated to be something between 30 and 100. The number of vaccine related deaths exploded in VAERS in 2021 and is way higher than for all vaccine deaths taken together since 1990 when VAERS saw the light of the day. Now, how can it possibly be that there are no Covid-19 vaccine deaths to be found in the U.S. official mortality data and at the same time there are 50,000 Covid-19 vaccine deaths reported, mostly by healthcare professionals, in VAERS? It's simple. In January of 2021, the WHO issued new ICD-10 codes to cover the new mRNA Covid vaccines. And the code U12.9 was designated to be used for vaccine adverse events caused by them. ICD‑10 stands for 'International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10.' It's maintained by the World Health Organization. The ICD system is vast: it contains ~70,000 diagnosis codes, and about the same number of procedure codes. These standardized alphanumeric codes are used worldwide to classify diseases as well as causes of death for statistical and billing purposes. But when you search the CDC's WONDER database, there is not a single death listed under U12.9. In fact, it is impossible for a U12.9 coded death to exist in the WONDER database. And the reason for that is that the WONDER database does not contain the code U12.9 that the WHO especially issued in order for countries around the world to mark deaths as Covid-19 vaccine deaths. And not only that: none of the codes that the WHO added for Covid-19 are to be found in WONDER. Not one: not code U07.1 ('COVID-10, virus identified'), not code U07.2 ('COVID-19, virus not identified'), not code U08.9 ('Personal history of COVID-19, unspecified') and not code U09.9 ('Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified'). And because U12.9 is not in WONDER, health officials across the United States could proclaim that there was not a single Covid-19 vaccine death. For example, the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of New Hampshire said publicly without batting an eye that there are no Covid vaccine related deaths in New Hampshire, zero. But then, you ask, how are Covid-19 vaccine deaths coded if not with U12.9? Because there were some brave doctors who dared to list the mRNA vaccines as cause of death on the death certificate. Such deaths are coded with U12.9's parent code which is Y59.0. Which is meant to be used for adverse events of viral vaccines. Which the mRNA vaccines are not. Death by the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines were simply thrown in with viral vaccines. And thus it's impossible to distinguish whether death was caused by a viral vaccine or an mRNA vaccine. Well then, how many deaths are in WONDER for viral vaccines? And that's another miracle: Before Covid, almost none. That's right, according to U.S. mortality data, almost nobody in the United States died from vaccine adverse events pre-Covid. To be precise: 11 deaths between 1999 and 2020 were coded with Y59.0 as Underlying Cause of Death (UCoD). Eleven. About one every other year. If you run the same query for Multiple Cause of Death (MCoD), then you get 30 deaths (in case you're not familiar with the distinction between the two, watch my previous interview with John Beaudoin 'The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths.' The link is below under 'Resources'). Does that number match up with what is in VAERS? Of course not. However, in 2021 something extraordinary happens in WONDER: the viral vaccine deaths increase dramatically. In 2020, the number of deaths coded with Y59.0 was so small that it was suppressed in WONDER. For privacy reasons, numbers are not shown when they are between 1 and 9. In 2020, the number of deaths coded with Y59.0 was minuscule, something between 1 and 6. But in 2021, an absolutely astonishing number of deaths is coded with Y59.0: 195. More than all the deaths coded as viral vaccine deaths taken ...
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    52 min
  • The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths | John Beaudoin

    The Data Trick Masking a Surge in Kidney Failure Deaths | John Beaudoin
    Dec 26 2025
    "The incentives drove the acute kidney injury. My graphs show that very clearly. The acute kidney injury has been around for years. They should have known it. I've been talking about it for three and a half years." — John Beaudoin *** John Beaudoin has been alerting the CDC and other health agencies about the catastrophic increase in renal failure deaths for more than three years. But he didn't get any interest from the CDC or any other federal health agency or scientists working for any such agency. He thinks, he said to me, that "it's purposeful that they haven't picked up on it. I think they know it and they're afraid because… I can show the timing to the week that this happened and it didn't happen with COVID. It happened with a human intervention, not just when the drugs were approved, but months later when the drugs were incentivized by the federal government with big, big piles of money." Incentivized drugs like Remdesivir that is known to cause kidney failure. And incentivized devices like ventilators that were a death sentence for huge numbers of people who tested positive and were intubated unnecessarily. Both Remdesivir and ventilators were declared medical countermeasures covered under the PREP Act declaration for COVID-19 - and, shockingly, they still are to this very day. When they cause death, nobody can be held responsible, nobody can be sued. Not the doctor, not the nurse, not the manufacturer - nobody. Beaudoin is in possession of 1.6 million non-redacted death certificates from the Covid years that he received through multiple FOIA requests. He read thousands of them and that's why he knows how doctors fill them out. Large numbers of death certificates, he told me, are filled out incorrectly or are incomplete. Beaudoin also knows which ICD-10 codes (International Classification of Disease) the death certificates came back with from the CDC's central parser and whether these codes correspond to what doctors or medical examiners wrote. And he understands how CDC analysts are hiding alarming signals in death records related to COVID treatment protocols and mRNA Covid shots. Mortality data in the CDC's WONDER database can be analyzed either by what is called 'Underlying Cause of Death' (UCoD), which is row D in Part 1 on American death certificates - or by 'Multiple Causes of Death' (MCoD) which are listed in Part 2. Analyzing mortality data by looking just at the UCoD doesn't give you a truthful picture of what drives mortality, he says: "I only track MCoD. I stopped using UCoD long ago when I recognized in the death records that it's not a fair and accurate representation and it could really mess up the signals." How can he be so sure that analyzing mortality records in the US based on the underlying cause of death is obscuring what people really die from? He said: "I'm the only one that has 1.6 million non-redacted death records where I can read what the death certifier wrote… I spent three and a half years [looking at them]. I've probably seen 10,000 and, from my experience, that's how I was able to determine the value and integrity of the data of UCoD. And there's not much value in it. There's not much value in it at all, which is why I stopped using it three years ago." However, CDC analysts and many other researchers, according to Beaudoin, use the Underlying Cause of Death to analyze causes of death and by doing so miss the real story. His prime example is the development of renal failure deaths in the United States: according to UCoD, renal failure deaths increased significantly in 2020 and again in 2021 and remained very high. However, this increase pales in comparison to the picture that emerges when MCoD is used to analyze death records: kidney failure exploded in the COVID years and far exceeds the increase shown by looking at UCoD alone. 0:00:05 Underlying and Multiple Causes of Death 0:00:36 Death Certificates and Data Integrity 0:01:12 Structure of US Death Certificates 0:02:23 Walking Through a Sample Death Certificate 0:06:22 Challenges with Properly Filling Death Certificates 0:09:00 CDC Coding Software and Issues with UCoD 0:12:00 Examples of Misrepresentation and Errors in Death Records 0:14:20 Influence of Doctor Habits and Patterns on Death Data 0:17:02 Handling Missing Values When Assigning UCoD 0:18:00 Data Integrity, State Variability, and UCoD vs. MCoD 0:21:30 Meaning of Multiple Causes of Death and Coding Implications 0:24:20 Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease on Death Certificates 0:28:54 Epidemiological Trends—Increase in Kidney Failure Deaths 0:32:16 Data Analysis—MCoD vs. UCoD, Broader Implications 0:33:10 Reverse Chronology and Doctor Confusion in Death Certificates 0:34:31 ICD-10 and Data Systems
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    36 min
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