Data Panic: ODH Moves to Mediation in Sweeping Data Case.
BY JEFF SKINNER
While most around the country are moving to sweep the aftermath of the last few years under the rug, Katherine Huwig, of podcasts such as ‘Beyond the Data’, is pushing to bring potential wrongdoing to light in a case that is shaking the Ohio Department of Health to their core.
Huwig rose to statewide prominence during her testimony on deliberation of the passing of H.B. 90, which sought to limit the powers of the governor’s office pertaining to “health emergencies.” Huwig studied planetary geology and evolutionary biology at Case Western Reserve University at Stanford and her testimony at the H.B 90 hearing in February of 2021 was integral in tearing apart the facade of the state’s covid-19 policies and procedures.
“It was so sloppy, it was so corrupt,” Huwig said. “They are using this to mandate things on us and it is out of control. Situations like where an 80 plus year old woman supposedly got covid and was never hospitalized and died 9 months later and according to the state of Ohio she died of Covid. How does she live with covid for 9 months and then die from covid without needing hospitalization? I go through all those numbers in my testimony and 75 percent of the death they have counted in that point make no sense to being from an acute respiratory virus.”
According to Huwig, one week after her testimony, ODH changed how this data was connected within their databases.
“They disconnected the data of when the person died to when they were identified as covid to when they were admitted to the hospital,” Huwig said. “So, all the analyses that I had done one week prior and testified about that was utter nonsense, they disconnected that information from each other so I could not longer do what I did before, so they are hiding it.”
According to Huwig, her interest in pursuing state data was piqued when she noticed inconsistencies such as what she calls “post-mortem infections,” where individuals will be listed in the record as deceased and then diagnosed as a covid case after the fact.
“I mean some of these are pretty obvious, you should be able to notice that and after they switched that data over, I could actually follow those for a few days after and I could see that they did not address the problem, they just hid it,” Huwig said. “They are actually concealing what these people died of.”
These instances prompted Huwig to take her investigation into the data a step further. According to the most recent Ohio Supreme Court Case filing, In February of this year, Huwig requested data dictionaries from the Death and Vaccination databases. After ODH initially complied, Huwig specifically highlighted portions of the dictionaries she wanted reports on and submitted a subsequent request for specific reports chronicling deaths throughout 2021. It was at this point ODH began to backstep in their cooperation.
According to the court documents, ODH initially refused to provide the data to Huwig because “It would require the department to create a new record and would reveal protected health information.”
This response was of course after cases such as Miller v Ohio Department of Health -2022, and Ludlow v Ohio Department of Health, in which similar requests were made. In those cases, ODH admitted they have within their capacity, the ability to generate full reports on a number of criteria outlined in their dictionaries. In the case of Ludlow v ODH, the reports were eventually provided but with significant redactions that are the subject of ongoing litigation.
After successive filings and communications, court documents and correspondences show ODH waffled on criteria for refusal, now attempting to argue Huwig’s request is simply too broad to comply with before finally requesting the case go into mediation to negotiate an outcome before the Ohio Supreme Court can make a ruling.
While previous court cases have shown ODH has the capacity to generate and publish reports on a broad sweeping range of categories, Huwig’s case is moving forward on the grounds that ODH has a legal responsibility to provide this data to the public. Per ORC 149.43, it is mandated by law that institutions like ODH keep accessible and complete records for the public pertaining to issues and matters of public health for public inspection. Knowing that the law is clear in this case, some may ask why ODH would combat the attempt at records within 3 different court cases, specifically pertaining to issues surrounding covid. The answer to that question may be in what the data can prove.
Per Huwig’s testimony in 2021, the previously available public data made it clear there were egregious errors and issues. Others looking at these same data points have argued potential fraud may be occurring surrounding the counting of covid-19 cases. During the initial pandemic, hospital networks across the country were being offered significant financial incentives from federal and state sources directly tied to the number of covid cases encountered and deaths documented. According to some estimates, hospital networks were able to net around $300,000 per covid case between federal and state subsidies, providing a clear incentive to over document. Additionally, in 2021, a mass rollout campaign was initiated for the mRNA gene therapy platform. Data pulled from that year could start a cascading avalanche that could conclusively prove a rise in all-cause mortality that insurance companies have been panicking over for over a year.
According to life insurance company OneAmerica’s CEO, deaths skyrocketed 40 percent in the third quarter of 2021 among working age people aged 18-64. According to experts like Dr. Robert Malone, this sharp increase can be directly tied to administration of the mRNA gene therapy injections in the latter part of 2021. The data Huwig is requesting could potentially help answer a number of public health questions pertaining to the dangers Ohioians face from the modern medical establishment.
The Ohio Roundtable will continue to monitor this case as it moves through mediation.
