Dr. Andy Bostom Recaps The Truths Of COVID Years And RI Dept Of Health Response Based On Unsubstantiated Regulations Using Vacant Data

Dr. Andy Bostom, an accomplished epidemiologist, was invited to speak at a RI Republican State Central meeting in East Providence, RI.

Dr. Bostom covered five sections of the state’s COVID response along with the reluctance of Rhode Department of Health’s to release modeling criteria that triggered dystopian regulations of lock downs, forced masking, 6’ social distancing and vaccine mandates.
The five areas covered by Dr. Bostom were the following.

1) Covid PCR testing in Rhode Island

QUESTION(S):

Were you ever PCR tested for covid?
When you were PCR tested, were you given your “cycle threshold” value, specifically?
Related APRA filed with State Rep. Patricia Morgan, regarding the ~first 5000 PCR tests performed in the state lab, & illuminating data (finally!) obtained.

2) The Rhode Island Covid-19 Hospitalization Models of April 16, 2020

QUESTION(S):
--Do any of you recall watching then Governor Raimondo’s nationally televised presser (live on C-Span or on local TV), April 16, 2020, where she unveiled with great fanfare the covid-19 hospitalization model prediction for the next ~2-weeks, i.e., 4/27/20, & 5/3/20?
--Do you recall how ~many Rhode Islanders were supposed to be hospitalized for covid on those dates?
--Do you know how many Rhode Islanders were hospitalized with, as opposed to for, we now know, covid, on those dates?
Related APRA filed with State Rep. Chippendale, seeking modelers, rationale, any explanation for model performance.

3) Covid-19 Mortality Risk in RI

QUESTION(S):
--Do you know how former Covid response Director, & later Acting RIDOH Director (& now NY State
Commissioner of Health) Dr. James McDonald defined “covid death” in RI under oath during the Southwell v. McKee litigation, in 2021?
--Do you know how many children, and or adolescents through age 17 have died from covid in RI?
--Do you know how many children, and or adolescents through age 17 in RI (as an ~ percentage), CDC estimates were infected by SARSCOV2/covid as of December 2022?
--Do you know the approximate percentages of deaths with (not from) covid by age in RI?
Related APRA filed with State Rep. Chippendale, seeking RIDOH communications rationalizing campus closures, and other “mitigation” measures, with Brown University & URI

4) Mask Mandates in RI especially RI public schools, & colleges

QUESTION(S):
--What evidence did RIDOH rely upon when it “recommended” imposing the mask mandates?
--What empirical evidence do we have regarding the “success” of the mask mandates in preventing covid infections in RI?
Related APRA filed with State Rep. Chippendale, seeking RIDOH communications rationalizing masking, specifically, with Brown University & URI

5) Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in RI especially among HCWs, and college students

--What evidence did RIDOH rely upon when it “recommended” imposing the vaccine mandates?
--How many URI students were hospitalized because of a covid caused lower respiratory tract infection before the vaccines were available?
--What empirical evidence do we have regarding the “success” of the vaccine mandates in preventing covid infections in RI?