Murphy issued an order on March 23rd to suspend elective operations, invasive procedures, including dental work. Murphy allowed physicians to decide which procedures and operations could be delayed without “undue risk to the current or future health of the patient” but explicitly exempted abortion services.
Let me make this clear… elective surgery does NOT mean optional. Individuals awaiting a scheduled surgery or living in chronic pain or need a procedure to diagnose an illness were prevented from taking action for 9 weeks until Murphy opened up elective surgeries on May 26, 2020. Now just because surgeries had finally opened up, doesn’t mean that people scheduled the procedure right away. There was a huge delay because of the 9 week backlog of surgeries and hospitals had to prioritize.
Mistakes were made in deciding who could and couldn’t have treatment, causing some patients to have terminal problems or die. In addition, some patients took it upon themselves to decide to delay their treatment without consulting their doctor. Its hard to tell if it was the physician or patient who was delaying these life saving procedures, either way, it caused an increase in deaths in NJ.
The COVID-19 pandemic panic resulted in a 71% decline in overall heart-related case volume across the Mid-Atlantic area (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) where the strictest COVID shutdowns were enforced. Is there a correlation between the decline in heart procedures and heart outcomes? There Sure is.
There was a 26% increase in death due to heart disease during Murphy’s order to suspend operations (over March April and May) compared to the same time in 2019. Now some people want to argue that the disturbing increase in death due to heart disease was a COD coding error and those deaths should have been marked as COVID19 on the death certificate. However, it is doubtful that these heart events were coded in error, considering that cancer coded deaths were shown to have the opposite problem and death certificates were mostly coded in favor of COVID19 rather than cancer (shown at the end of my previous article).
Shutdowns from the governor cause approximately a 28% higher number of deaths than the reported number of COVID-19 deaths.
Why is no one talking about this? These governors in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and California, among others, caused additional deaths in their population that were not from the disease itself but from failed mandates to prevent disease. Mistakes like this CANNOT be made by a governing body that continues to get reelected. If we don’t address this issue right away, it most certainly will happen again.
Please see part 1, of this series where I show figures of deaths from mental health disorders that were definitely caused by Murphy’s stay at home order:
Could you please provide a link to where you obtained your data