This hospital tried to save a man with covid. Then the threats started.
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Valley Regional Hospital targeted over man's COVID treatment
Valley Regional Hospital (NH) targeted over man's COVID treatment - right wing terrorism
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Source: Washington Post
This hospital tried to save a man with covid. Then the threats started.
By Joanna Slater
Today at 5:00 a.m. EST
CLAREMONT, N.H. It was still dark when Jocelyn Caple pulled into the parking lot of Valley Regional Hospital one morning in early December.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, covid hospitalizations in New Hampshire were at a record high. The small community hospital Caple leads was full, its employees exhausted.
As soon as Caple arrived inside, a colleague told her that something strange was happening. Calls were flooding into the switchboard, and senior staff members were receiving a flurry of voice messages and emails to their work accounts.
The callers were impassioned and vehement, demanding that the hospital begin treating a covid patient in its care with ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug. As the day went on, the volume of calls grew so large that the hospital shut down its main number.
That morning was only the beginning. The calls and emails mobilized by a group calling itself the Truth Seekers 88 ...
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/25/new-hampshire-hospital-threats-qanon/
Non-paywalled link: https://wapo.st/3M7kdQW
keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)Why didn't you love him/her enough to take him to a doctor you would trust to treat him as you wanted?
rsdsharp
(9,195 posts)88
88=HH
HH=Heil Hitler
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)canuckledragger
(1,659 posts)That whole 88 thing reeks of scumbag nazi wannabes. A lot of them use variations of it for naming their hate groups.
Subtle