In light of the f**e CBS News report using footage from an overrun Italian hospital while reporting on the CV outbreak in NYC, how accurate was the news report by ABC News, the NYT's , and the Daily Mail Newspaper on the overun Elmhurst Hospital Center with CV patients?
First, recall the F**e CBS News report purporting to show a NYC hospital overrun with patients when it was footage of an Italian hospital, and labeled an editing error. OK, mistakes happen.
Then you have the March 27 story with ABC News showing footage by an emergency room doctor (Dr. Colleen Smith) of the following:
1) "Smith's video shows rows upon rows of critical C****-** patients hooked up to ventilators at the 545-bed public hospital where 13 people died in a period of 24 hours this week
2) Scenes from outside the hospital show hundreds of people lined up waiting to get treated and tested, with the queues growing longer each day (pictured Thursday)
3) Smith filmed a row of only five ventilators that were not in use at the time, saying: 'Unless people die, I expect we'll be back to needing to beg for ventilators again in another day or two'
The story was picked up by the NYT's and Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8156481/ER-doctor-films-c****av***s-crisis-inside-Elmhurst-Hospital-Queens.html, and who knows how many more news outlets.
Why then, when individual citizens went to the Elmhurst Hospital the following day, they filmed the fact that there were no lines of people with "confirmed cases, waiting to be tested, supplies are in demand there"?
https://youtu.be/5pIMD1enwd4?t=2m12sThey walked thru the lobby and filmed... a basically quiet hospital with no unusual activity.
Would you be surprised to learn that the same emergency room doctor, Dr. Colleen Smith was a co-author on a report published at The Journal of Teaching & Learning Resources entitled “A Simulated Mass Casualty Incident Triage Exercise: SimWars.”
In that report, Dr. Smith MD is identified as a “simulation specialist.
"Shocking video coming out of Elmhurst Hospital showing row upon row of patients with C****-** infection and refrigerated trucks with body bags inside emanate from a Dr. Colleen Smith."
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/no_author/nation-in-c****av***s-turmoil-is-there-no-way-out/An April 2, 2020 report published by State Of The Nation reveals that same video footage as a “staged panic that became a live drill.”
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=10603I'm not making any claims or judgements on the State Of The Nation report. You be the judge for yourself.
Most people will simply accept what they see on the news as fact, not "f**e news". Isn't is amazing what you can discover for yourself with just a little bit of effort. NOTE: Look carefully at the MEDED Portal for the list of authors. Verify that Colleen Smith is one of the co-authors.