September 28, 2026 – Surgeon at hospital that treated first U.S. Covid patient claims fraud, deadly protocols and retaliation

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A trauma surgeon who worked inside the Washington hospital that treated the first diagnosed COVID-19 patient in the dropped a political grenade on Capitol Hill Monday.

Dr. James P. Miller told Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) roundtable, “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People,” that the head of infectious disease at his hospital privately admitted he was working with state government to restrict the civil rights of unvaccinated Americans.

“The head of infectious disease medicine at my hospital privately told me that he was working with the state government to restrict the civil rights of unvaccinated people,” Miller said.

“Including their ability to drive and therefore work, by making their driver’s license renewal contingent on their COVID vaccine status.”

That is not a conspiracy theory from a comment section. That is a licensed physician and surgeon, under oath in the Senate, describing what he said he heard from the man running infectious disease at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, the same hospital that treated “Patient Zero” in January 2020.

In a sworn attestation Miller previously filed for criminal investigations, he identified that official as Dr. George Diaz and said Diaz told him unvaccinated people should not be allowed to engage in society or hold a driver’s license, and that Diaz claimed he was working with the Washington governor’s office to turn that view into state policy.

Those remain Miller’s allegations. Diaz was the public face of Everett’s first-case response and an early champion of remdesivir.

The hospital that launched the national panic, and the doctor who says the panic was manufactured.

Miller was a staff surgeon and ICU provider at the Everett hospital. He also contracted independently to perform ICU quality reviews. What he found, he told Johnson’s panel, was not a heroic system stretched to the breaking point. It was fraud, fear theater, and protocols that killed.

He said his reviews uncovered fraud extending to senior hospital leadership. He reported it. Then the retaliation started.

After federal authorities sent remdesivir to the hospital, Miller said medical leadership handed physicians “misleading and inaccurate information” about the drug. When a young trauma patient looked like a textbook candidate under the official guidelines, the infectious disease doctor on call told him privately not to give it to her, because, quote, “she seemed like a nice girl.”

“Any physician honestly reviewing the real-world data at that time could have recognized early that remdesivir caused more harm than good,” Miller testified.

Read his statement below:

“During COVID-19, I was a staff surgeon, ICU provider at the hospital where the first diagnosed COVID patient in the United States was treated. I cared for hundreds of COVID patients and also contracted independently to perform ICU quality reviews at the hospital, in addition to my surgical and ICU duties as a physician.

My reviews uncovered fraud extending to senior hospital leadership. I reported these findings. There were protocols put in place that caused—thank you—that caused demonstrable harm and increased mortality.

After our hospital was given remdesivir by federal authorities, we were provided misleading and inaccurate information about the drug by medical leadership. When I had a young trauma patient just after remdesivir was released, she appeared to be a perfect candidate based on the guidelines. The infectious disease doctor on call told me privately not to give it to her because, quote, “She seemed like a nice girl,” unquote.

Any physician honestly reviewing the real-world data at that time could have recognized early that remdesivir caused more harm than good.

I observed messaging by the hospital that falsely inflated COVID infections and deaths, contributing to public fear and generating misleading headlines. In my experience, we never faced shortages of equipment or staff. I witnessed nurses being sent home because there were not enough patients, while headlines about our hospital were simultaneously running, stating that we were overwhelmed by COVID patients.

I further observed that mask and PPE protocols initiated during COVID lacked scientific basis and did not medically work, but the mask and PPE protocols did dehumanize patients and staff.

I witnessed patients who died from trauma and other causes being reported as COVID-19 deaths on their death certificates. I watched previously compassionate and devoted doctors and nurses become cruel and ambivalent about the well-being of patients as the COVID experience evolved.

The head of infectious disease medicine at my hospital privately told me that he was working with the state government to restrict the civil rights of unvaccinated people, including their ability to drive and, therefore, work, by making their driver’s license renewal contingent on their status.

Hospital leadership, including the chief medical officer of our medical group, endorsed the local medical establishment’s refusal to provide healthcare to unvaccinated patients. Primary care and urgent care physicians refused to see unvaccinated patients with the chief medical officer’s knowledge and approval, through policy.

In response, I opened a free clinic to care for those denied care through my local church. The church became a licensed clinic.

I observed that many of the alternative treatments that were censored by medical societies, pharmacists, social media, the press, and established health agencies were highly effective. Treatments including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, zinc, quercetin, and just physical exercise were highly effective at treating COVID.

When I advocated for patient care rather than harmful protocols and spoke against the fraud, I was targeted for removal through baseless disciplinary actions, with a stated goal of taking away my medical license and ability to ever practice medicine again.

I endured countless unfounded disciplinary hearings, show trials, and sham peer review procedures, which included the threat of me being arrested. This was all in retaliation for me speaking out.

I defeated every attack. I remained in good standing, and I told the truth.

I witnessed physicians and nurses who observed the harms done by the COVID protocols either remain silent or be forced out of our community.

The public health officials, hospital leaders, and physicians who implemented these treatments and protocols should be held accountable. The data were available, and the harms were obvious.

Accountability is necessary if we’re going to maintain public trust and a functioning healthcare system.”

WATCH:

Buffalo attorney Ralph Lorigo walked into Sen. Ron Johnson’s Capitol Hill roundtable Monday with numbers the corporate press will spend the next week trying to bury.

He represented 212 families in 40 states after hospitals refused to let dying COVID patients try ivermectin while Remdesivir and ventilators rolled on.

Of the 72 cases Lorigo won in which the drug was actually given, only three patients died. That is a 95.8 percent survival rate. Of the 140 cases he lost or could not get into court in time, every single patient died.

Twenty-four days after Raymond Hokett walked into an Oklahoma City emergency room in August 2021, the 58-year-old was dead. On Monday, his widow sat before Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and told the country what she says happened in between, remdesivir, a doctor who blamed his vaccine status, a ventilator she never approved, armed guards on the COVID floor, and hospital staff who asked her, again and again, to make him a DNR and hand over his organs. https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/2104662960983482876/video/1