"After 11,500 autopsies over four decades, Dr. Brian L. Peterson was used to high-profile forensic work - including the 2004 California murder trial of Scott Peterson"
"When the coronavirus epidemic began in 2020, Peterson decided to review every Covid-related death in the county - to see for himself who was dying and how. Over the next two-and-a-half years, he made brief reviews of medical records for about 4,000 people that physicians had said died of Covid."
"Roughly 20 percent of deaths that physicians certified as Covid-related were not. Some would have been obvious to a layperson - the classic example being a homicide victim who happened to have a positive Covid test."
"Another 20 percent of deaths came in people with very late-stage cancer or other terminal conditions who did have Covid and symptoms specific to it when they died. Those people would likely have died in days or weeks even if they had not been infected"
"I asked him directly: of the 4,000 Covid deaths, how many people would he classify as
healthy before they contracted Sars-Cov-2?
Fewer than 100, he said.
Could he be more specific?
“Dozens.”
In other words,
fewer than 1 percent of all the Covid deaths Peterson reviewed had occurred in people who were not already very unwell.
How about specific examples of those deaths? Deaths of young or healthy people?
He recalled one teenager, he said. “But he had leukemia.”"
"Then, in the summer of 2022, Peterson made another move that put him even further out of step with his political overlords. He began reporting the Covid vaccination status of the people who’d died on their certificates."
<and then, BAM, the hammer comes down on him>
"In a four-minute meeting, he was told the county two choices for him, resign or retire, he said. He chose to resign and was escorted back to the medical examiner’s building by three sheriff’s deputies. He waited outside for his personal effects; he was never allowed inside again.
He had been chief medical examiner for 12 years."
Dr. Brian Peterson ran the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office until he was suddenly forced to retire in September; did his honesty about Covid cost him his job?
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