This is one of those oddities that kind of gnaws at you, but I have yet to see anyone else bring this up, so I guess I will.
How did they achieve the early death totals? Especially how did they do it in a way that increased the number of Black and Brown people? It seems counter intuitive that they would be the ones seeking medical attention for any reason. Marginalized people tend to have healthy distrust of the government and institutions, but this time they went in to die at the hospitals at a much higher rate than the whites? Really?
Nope, I really doubt that. Here is the missing link of the hospital to grave disassembly line. The Pulse Oximeter. It has a hard time getting an accurate read on anyone with a darker tan than Marylin Manson in the winter.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/health/pulse-oximeters-fda-meeting/index.html
And this has been a known issue for decades-
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24596406/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18048893/
If you recall, early in 2020 Doctors were discussing the “Happy Hypoxemia” (Links Below) patients coming in that seemed fine, but could not have been because their blood oxygen level was way too low. Those people would be admitted, given a few liters of oxygen via cannula, then if their oximeter was still reading low, onto the vent they go.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.368.6490.455
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32723327/
https://respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12931-020-01520-y
Clearly, the hospitals were treating the machines, not the patients and this had to be a directive that came down hard at some point. Why would I say that, well…
I am tranny which means I see my doctor every 3-6 months and have been for decades. Pre covid, every time I went in, the tech and I would fiddle with the oximeter until it got a read. I mean, the package for them contained nail polish remover. The fact that you could not trust a first read was universal.
Then my first appointment during Covid, the tech, who had been there previously, clipped the little thing on and when the machine popped out a 71*, he wrote that on the clipboard. I fiddled with it until I got a 98, but he did not change the number. I pointed out to him, like I always did, that I got the proper read. He nodded and did not change the number on the clipboard.
I tried a few times more to get him to put the accurate numbers on the paper, he did not. That clipboard went into the examination room wherein I corrected the numbers and have had to do that every time since.
It is ridiculous, but I at least had the opportunity to change it before the nurse came in to update my records. I don’t need that bad of a diagnosis on my record. I’ve already had to remove paragraphs of bullshit. It’s not an easy task. Nor is it particularly legal.
I bring this up again due to my not seeing anyone else discussing it. So please, share this with your healthcare friends.
*If I had not corrected this myself, they would have suggested admitting me and giving me oxygen. I would have been a “not terribly happy hypoxemia” patient in their eyes. People in the same condition I was that day, which was perfectly healthy and not dying, were taken and put on a vent within a couple hours. 1,000’s of people were. Think about that for a second.
I bought a 02 monitor for my home firdt aid kit. The price had come down to an affordable $10. But, it reads 4 points low. Now, that's ok. It's in the ballpark. But only because my lungs are in excellent condition. But applied to snyone with marginal 02 and they'd be considered hypoxic. And they only needed a small percentage of patients to be false hypoxic for the scam to work.
Most blood oxygen meters are made in China, and unlike other electronic medical test & measurement equipment, there's no calibration requirement for 02 meters. Millions could be distributed around the world and put into use without anyone the wiser.
Unscrupulous doctors could pull a similar trick with automated blood pressure readers. They always read high in error, never low, due to their innate design, just as the 02 meter can never read too high The bracelet blood pressure reader is particularly error prone. They're a novelty. Junk.
High blood pressure by itself or combined with other stars like a high BMI enables them to push statins, blood pressure meds, CPAP machines, stents, and other unnecessary drugs & treatments.
Always demand that the nurse test your blood pressure manually. Protect the accuracy of your medical records.