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Leaked Zoom Video Exposes Hospital Officials Discussing COVID-19 Scare Tactics

Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times,

A leaked Zoom conference reveals a doctor questioning how to increase
the count of COVID-19 patient numbers on the hospital’s dashboard
report.

The media outlet National File said it obtained the recording from an
“internal source” at the Novant Health System that includes New
Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina.

National File posted the video on its Twitter feed on Sept. 10.

    SHOCK VIDEO: Senior doctors and a marketing director at in North
Carolina discussed inflating COVID-19 numbers by counting recovered
patients as active COVID patients.

    "We need to be... more scary to the public... If you don't get
vaccinated, you know you're going to die." pic.twitter.com/66CcIsVR4B
    — National File (@NationalFile) September 10, 2021

National File and other local media outlets that reported on the leak
identified the people in the video as Mary Kathryn Rudyk, a physician
at the medical center, who is asking Carolyn Fisher, the hospital’s
director of marketing, how to inflate the number of people classified
as COVID-19 patients for the purpose of generating fear in the
unvaccinated.

    “I think we have to be more blunt, we have to be more forceful -
we have to say something coming out - if you don’t get vaccinated, you
know you are going to die,” Rudyk said in the video.

    “Let’s just be really blunt to these people.”

The video begins with Fisher explaining how her department is
communicating “meaningful numbers”—the percentage of the unvaccinated,
vaccinated, and percentage of deaths in the Intensive Care Unit
(ICU)—to the public.

Rudyk then asked how post-COVID cases can be included in the number of
people hospitalized for COVID-19.

    “My feeling at this point in time is that maybe we need to be
completely a little bit more scary for the public,” Rudyk said.

    “There are many people still hospitalized that we’re considering
post-COVID, but we are not counting in those numbers, so how do we
include those post-COVID people in the numbers of patients we have in
the hospital?”

Fisher asked if she meant every patient who has been in the hospital
“since the beginning of COVID?”

Rudyk answered, “Well, that are still in, and that’s something I can
take to someone else, but I think those are important numbers: the
patients that are still in the hospital, that are off the COVID floor,
but still are occupying the hospital for a variety of reasons.”

Also on the Zoom conference call was Shelbourn Stevens, president of
New Hanover Regional Medical Center, who said those patients are
classified as “recovered.”

“But I do think, from our standpoint, we would still consider them a
COVID patient because they’re still healing,” Stevens said.

Rudyk said she thinks those patients need to be “highlighted as well,
because once they’re off isolation, they drop from the COVID numbers,”
prompting Stevens to say that they can later talk offline about “how
we can run that up to marketing.”
Novant Health Response

In response to questions asking for confirmation on if people in the
video were employees of New Hanover Regional Medical Center and what
the context of the video was, a spokesperson for Novant Health told
The Epoch Times that staff involved in the excerpt of the video are
seeing the “highest levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths so
far in this pandemic, despite having safe and effective vaccines
widely available.”

    “This was a frank discussion among medical and communications
professionals on how we can more accurately convey the severity and
seriousness of what’s happening inside of our hospitals and throughout
our communities,” the spokesperson said. “Specifically, the data we
have been sharing does not include patients who remain hospitalized
for COVID-19 complications even though they are no longer on COVID-19
isolation, so it does not provide a complete picture of the total
impact of COVID-19 on our patients and on our hospitals.”

The hospital continues to be concerned with misinformation, the
spokesperson said, and that it strives “to be transparent and tell the
whole story.”