In late July this year, the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA), which looks like a lobbying organization that launders millions in public money to enrich its board and promote the latest thing, stopped publishing a key COVID metric. The vaccine status of people hospitalized with COVID-19.
That question and the title might, at this point, be rhetorical. We know why. It was the latest thing. The Public Health Industrial Complex passed through the final stage of narrative grief and accepted that there was no pandemic of the unvaccinated. Quite the opposite. But that’s no reason not to cling to a talking point tangentially.
If we stop reporting it, maybe they won’t notice. “Because” public health!
And that’s the real problem.
The NHHA receives money from the Feds and NH DHHS. Millions of dollars. National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program $1,441,902. Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program $1,150,388 (I’d love to know what they spent that on because it wasn’t small rural hospitals in NH). Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) and Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) Aligned Cooperative Agreements $957,032. They also received COVID funding.
Public money is not lacking, nor are salaries and benefits for the folks running the NHHA. The President of this “non-profit” of 13 employees makes over $400k/year. The Executive Vice President raked in $173k/year. The Senior Vice President of State Relations makes 127k/year.
We assume this means they have the tools and the talent to do whatever they do. And what are they claiming they do?
About that.
If the goal is to use all that money to improve the health of patients and the community, would it not be in the best interest of the same to know if the majority of people hospitalized with COVID are vaccinated so they can act accordingly to protect their health?
How often were we told that we needed to wear useless masks, pointlessly distance ourselves, and unnecessarily close a business, lockdown, or quarantine for the good of the health of the community?
Let’s say more times than the NHHA got state or federal money, though it might be close.
If “vaccinated” creates a high risk of COVID communicability to, oh, I don’t know, our most vulnerable or high-risk Granite Staters, isn’t hiding that bad for the health of patients and the community (the hospitals) serve?
Is it just too embarrassing to admit that you told us we needed to get that “vaccine” or a booster even after it became apparent this might be making matters worse? Something the Public Health Industrial Complex is still doing, even though members like the NHHA can’t bring themselves to publish the COVID vaccine status of people hospitalized for COVID in New Hampshire.
And that brings us back to the rhetorical headline.
If none of this has anything to do with public health, why are you getting public money?
HT | The Reader who did most of the leg work
