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The Realistic Nurse@TheRealisticRN · Sep 28, 2026

🚨 Today, the U.S. Senate heard what happened inside our hospitals during COVID. Patients. Families. Nurses. Doctors.…

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A Senate hearing documented allegations of hospital mistreatment during COVID, including locked-out families, denied alternative treatments, fired unvaccinated staff, and financial incentives for remdesivir use. The thread argues this represents a systemic pattern enabled by financial ties between treatment guidelines and drug manufacturers, Medicare payment structures, and legal protections extending until 2029.

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    🚨 Today, the U.S. Senate heard what happened inside our hospitals during COVID. Patients. Families. Nurses. Doctors. Every story was different. The pattern was the same. What happened can NEVER happen again. 🧵

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    The pattern: Families locked out. Requests for other treatments denied. Remdesivir and a ventilator. Anyone who questioned it, punished. Here's what they told the Senate.

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    A patient, Gail Seiler, said that when her ICU doctor learned she was unvaccinated, he told her: "I'm sorry Mrs. Seiler, but you're going to die." "My options became limited to remdesivir and a ventilator."

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    "I repeatedly requested treatments such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, budesonide, zinc, [and] Vitamin C but those requests were denied." "I was denied food for 12 days [and] water for seven days." "I was designated a DNR."

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    A surgeon, Dr. James Miller, testified that doctors refused to see unvaccinated patients "with the chief medical officer's knowledge and approval through policy." When he spoke out: "sham peer review procedures, which included the threat of me being arrested."

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    Nurses who refused the mandate were fired. One hospital system lost about 1,400 workers. Another, about 730. Nurses were warned that speaking out "may place their license and career in jeopardy."

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    When the government ended the mandate, it wrote that the mandate had "not adversely affected health care staffing." One Chicago hospital system later paid $10.3 million to settle with the workers it pushed out.

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    So why the same pattern, in hospital after hospital? Follow the paper. The government waived patients' right to visitors in 2020. Two years later it admitted the lockouts took "a physical and emotional toll on patients."

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    The treatment rules came from a national panel. Its own members wrote the guidelines were "not a mandate." Hospitals enforced them like law. Seven members of that panel had financial ties to the company that makes remdesivir.

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    The money followed the protocol. Medicare paid hospitals 20% more for COVID stays. Medicare also paid hospitals $2,028+ extra per case for administering remdesivir, on top of the regular payment. Ivermectin: $0 extra. The company that makes remdesivir sold $9.6 billion of it in the U.S.

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    And the protection followed the money. A federal law called the PREP Act shields drug companies and hospitals from lawsuits over COVID treatments. Extended 12 times. In effect until 2029.

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    Locked out. Denied. Punished. Paid. Protected. That's the pattern the Senate heard today. It can NEVER happen again. Share this so every American hears it too. Sources below.

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    Sources: Seiler testimony weartv.com/news/nation-wo… $2,028 per remdesivir case federalregister.gov/documents/2021… Visitation waived health.wyo.gov/wp-content/upl… Nurses warned ncsbn.org/news/leading-n… PREP Act to 2029 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-29108.pdf