Nurse Shares Undercover Video Bombshell About COVID-19 in New York

A Florida nurse-turned-undercover journalist who traveled to New York City to work at the hospital hardest-hit by the coronavirus pandemic says she witnessed negligent healthcare practices that very likely increased the COVID-19 death toll.

In an interview Saturday with Fox News, Erin Marie Olszewski, a registered nurse and U.S. Army veteran, said it was an “extremely common,” “everyday experience” for healthcare workers at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens — the “epicenter of the epicenter” for coronavirus in the U.S. — to not properly isolate patients infected with the virus.

“And, there was really no reason for that,” she said. “There were resources that were not being utilized. For instance, the Comfort ship, the Javits Center, and they had Samaritan’s Purse. So, we had options that weren’t utilized.”

Olszewski was referring to the USNS Comfort, one of the Navy’s two hospital ships, which President Donald Trump dispatched to New York City to take in non-coronavirus patients, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-established field hospital at the Javits Center.

By the time the outbreak in New York City was subsiding and the Comfort was ordered to return to its homeport in Norfolk, Va. in late April, the ship’s medical crew was, in fact, treating coronavirus patients — just not many, and, for that matter, not many patients, period. The ship only treated 182 total patients, 70 percent of whom were diagnosed with COVID-19 — out of a capacity of 1,000 beds.

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