Andrew Bridgen: Midazolam and morphine are both respiratory suppressants

"Midazolam and morphine are both respiratory suppressants... so we were prescribing medications which stop people breathing who are having trouble breathing...that guideline killed tens and tens of thousands of...elderly... and their deaths were put down as 'COVID' deaths."

Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen), a former Independent Member of U.K. Parliament, describes for Liz Gunn (@LizGunnNZ) how the "NICE guidelines"—that is, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines that serve as a set of recommendations and standards for health and social care practice in the U.K.—called for COVID protocols that were killing the elderly. Bridgen specifically highlights the use of midazolam and morphine, two respiratory suppressants, that were used to kill elderly patients, particularly during the so-called "first wave" of COVID.

"The Scottish COVID inquiry being held up there, the official one, [they're] talking about...the vaccine harms and midazolam, the use of Nice Guidelines 163, where a respiratory suppressant was prescribed," Bridgen says. "Midazolam and morphine are both respiratory suppressants, [and] combined as a treatment they're even more so...[and they were] prescribed to vulnerable elderly who were thought to have COVID-19. So we were prescribing a medication which stops people breathing who are having trouble breathing."

Bridgen goes on to say:

"It's interesting...that NICE guideline NG 163 was an emergency authorization in, I think it was the third of April 2020 in response to COVID-19. It was superseded by NG 191, which is much more comprehensive. The element of midazolam was taken out in November '23, I believe. That was taken out of the new guidelines and modified. So they're admitting that was a mistake.

"But what's really interesting is that although NICE guidelines are superseded by subsequent guidelines, every single NICE guideline is on the NHS website going back historically. So NG 163, NG 1 would be there, the first NICE guideline. There's only one that's been deleted off their system. There's no trace of it whatsoever, and that's NG 163...and...I asked the government why is this the only guideline that's ever been deleted off the website. You can't find any trace of it. It sounds to me as if they're feeling guilty.

"[And] they should...because I think that that guideline killed tens and tens of thousands of vulnerable elderly who were moved out of hospital in the spring in early 2020 to make way for the first expected wave of "COVID patients" who never arrived. They were moved into nursing homes and care homes, many of them without the medication they'd been taking in hospital, but they were prescribed midazolam and morphine. They suffered respiratory failure, and their deaths were put down as COVID deaths."