“An overdosage of Precedex caused metabolic acidosis, which was then misinterpreted by the providers as a problem with breathing. Partially in response to that misinterpretation, other medicine was administered – specifically lorazepam. And the problem with the Precedex progressed, and in addition to the metabolic acidosis, Grace lost her blood pressure, so she went into shock. This aggravated the metabolic acidosis. Grace reached a point where her respiratory compensation was as much as she could do… She reached a maximum compensation, but the metabolic acidosis was not stopped. So the acid – the lactic acid – kept accumulating in the blood. And then shortly before her death, she was administered morphine, which had a catastrophic effect in decreasing her respiratory compensation for the metabolic acidosis. This caused a precipitous decrease in her [blood] pH, and her heart stopped.”
That was only part of Dr. Gilbert Berdine’s explosive testimony during Day 3 of the landmark Schara v. Ascension Health lawsuit. Berdine is an award-winning medical doctor with specialties in respiratory diseases and critical care, and he is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He has been in practice since 1978. Attorneys for the plaintiffs called him as an expert witness earlier today.
Before his testimony both Hollee McInnis, RN, and Gavin Shokar, MD, had taken the stand. They were, respectively, the nurse and doctor who cared for Grace Schara on the day she died in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Shokar and McInnis blamed Covid for Grace’s demise, but Berdine tutored the jury on metabolic acidosis (low blood pH due to excess acid or reduced bicarbonate).
Symptoms of metabolic acidosis include rapid breathing, confusion, irregular heartbeat, and agitation and in severe cases, coma or death. According to McInnis and Shokar, Grace had evinced all of these symptoms prior to her death.
Berdine explained to them, using her medical records, that the doctor’s prescribed treatments caused metabolic acidosis in Grace Schara, which triggered her respiratory distress. Berdine stated that she died because they administered Precedex (a surgical sedative), lorazepam (a sedative and hypnotic antianxiety med), and morphine (an opioid that can significantly retard breathing) consecutively to slow her breathing. Instead, he believes, they should have reversed the metabolic acidosis.
He called Grace’s healthcare providers “reckless” and their behavior throughout her course of care as “unforgivable.”
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Day Two: Scott Schara Testimony
All of Wednesday, June 4, was taken up by testimony of Scott Schara, Grace’s father.
He began with reminiscences of Grace: her talent, her intellect, her humor and her habits. Then he gave a day by day, sometimes hour by hour, account of Grace’s hospital stay and death. He spoke of Grace’s admission to the hospital on October 6, 2021, overdose events on the 7th and 8th, the hospital’s reasons for kicking him out as Grace’s advocate on October 10, the lack of informed consent for many medical interventions used on Grace, and many other issues. Finally, Scott recounted his daughter’s last hours and minutes. He was often tearful during direct examination.
On cross examination, defense attorneys followed the same script they used the day before on Scott’s wife, Cindy. They tried to frame him as a delinquent parent who was responsible for his daughter’s death due to his unreasonable delusions about Covid.
However, on redirect, his own attorney gave Scott a chance to explain to the jury why he believes Grace was targeted by the system, providing statistics that indicate a clear discriminatory bias of the medical establishment against individuals with Down syndrome.
He also provided information about government-funded Covid-protocol incentives. For instance, he said that during the public health emergency, the federal government was paying hospitals tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars to put patients on ventilators. He feels that is why the hospital tried to pressure him to sign a pre-authorization for Grace. He refused, having researched the fact that 80 to 90 percent of patients put on ventilators did not survive their hospital stays.
Scott revealed other mistreatment he endured at the hands of hospital staff. For example, they forced him to leave the premises on Grace’s fourth morning in the hospital; the reason he was given was that the nurses didn’t want him there. He had been trying to feed Grace, had proven their medical equipment to be faulty, and had silenced alarms on Grace’s medical equipment according to instructions nurses had given him. Nevertheless, an armed guard escorted him from the building, and the phone number he was given to stay in contact with the hospital was 000-000-0000.
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Details of the case are here: https://thenewamerican.com/print/landmark-covid-lawsuit-could-alter-history/
The Schara’s story is available here: https://thenewamerican.com/print/covid-hospitals-the-new-killing-fields/
Day One: Cindy Schara testimony
The landmark Covid wrongful death suit in Appleton, Wisconsin, began yesterday with the mother of the deceased delivering several hours of testimony both to her attorney and under cross-examination.
Cindy Schara introduced the jury to her daughter, Grace, a high-functioning 19-year-old with Down syndrome. She then described in painful detail the days and hours leading up to Grace’s death, as well as what has happened since. She broke down in tears several times during her testimony.
Despite her apparent exhaustion, the defense immediately cross-examined her, painting her and her husband as crazed conspiracy theorists who believe that government-dictated hospital protocols are designed to kill.
For example, the defense attorney peppered Cindy with questions about her belief that the jab could cause a person to become sterile. He did so in a way to make her appear ridiculous, pulling up particular quotes from her original deposition and showing them to the jury on a large screen in the courtroom. Afterwards, her own attorney panned back on the same page to reveal that the same attorney, during that deposition, had revealed to her that he got the shot and is now fearful that he is sterile.
A second witness, Samuel Haines, finished out the first day of testimony. He is one of the registered nurses who took care of Grace before her death.
You can view their testimony on our YouTube channel.
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For background on the case, see here and here.
