Exclusive: Irish FOI Data-Release Proves Hospitals Were Never Under Strain in 2020

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Freepress.ie can exclusively reveal that Irish hospitals were never under strain throughout 2020, based on newly released official health system hospital data arising from our freedom of information request. If you’re in a hurry, scroll to the section on St. James’s hospital.

The contradiction between the official data and representations that the health service has been under dangerous strain is obviously extremely important. The charts below will show you just how how busy Irish hospitals have been.

The new data directly contradicts the reporting and statements of Irish politicians, RTE and other Irish mainstream media, and the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) covid-body NPHET. These Irish establishment bodies have consistently told the public that the hospital system was at breaking point since the Covid issue surfaced. Their own HSE data completely contradicts that contention.

We requested a specific dataset from the HSE on the 2nd of February. We asked for:

‘the full occupancy rates for all Irish hospitals under the direction of the HSE for the past four years broken down by month. Specifically, only people who were admitted to hospitals should be included and not outpatients who were on a waiting list: only people who were in the hospital for treatment should be included.’

Our February 2nd 2021 FOI Request to HSE

It took five weeks, but we now have that data. It shows conclusively that hospitals were never at breaking point and they were operating far below capacity all year.

The idea of an extremely stressed health service is still one of the key pillars used to justify the Irish Government’s unscientific lockdowns and mask mandates, both of which have no basis in science and have been argued to be examples of crimes against humanity.

The HSE Hospital Bed Data – Available For You To Download

We have included both the FOI request letter from the HSE and the actual data release here for download to verify everything for yourself with the HSE if you need to.



We encourage everyone to examine and use it for your own content to spread awareness – a link back to this site at the top of your material is all we ask. Make a chart for your local hospital and share it in your area! If you can’t use excel hit the comments below and I will make one for you. Feel free to use anything in this report in your own material for free, including all chart images below. The spreadsheet data we received from the HSE breaks down hospital bed occupancy for the past four years, with tabs for each year from 2017 to 2020.

The figures are given for the entire country at the top of the list, and then each of the seven hospital groups are given, along with each individual hospital within each of those groups. In all, there are fifty-six lines of data per year, broken down by month.  Each of the charts below have the corresponding data shown used to generate each chart.

For each chart we took the four consecutive years for that specific group or hospital and charted it to show the comparison between the year of the ‘pandemic’, and the three previous years.

The National Picture Is One Of Half Empty Hospitals

Let’s first take a look at the national picture. For the year of Covid-19 2020 in blue, the graph shows that National Hospital occupancy levels were starkly below those of the previous years. Click each image to enlarge and to see the yearly figures.

All Irish hospital bed occupancy by month, from 2017 (Yellow) to 2020 (Blue). Click each image to enlarge

It seems they flattened the curve alright – but maybe not the one we thought they meant. This data incorporates all hospital beds in the country (the first line of data on the excel sheet). As you can see, the system was never under strain.

To check if the National picture is reproduced in a subset of that data, the Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG), is the largest and most complex of Ireland’s hospital groups. Comprising 11 hospitals (6 voluntary and 5 statutory), IEHG spans eight eastern counties and works with four Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO) partners. The Mater hospital and National Maternity Hospital are members of this group.

Ireland East Hospital group, 11 hospital on most populous East Coast of Ireland

Still the same picture. Remember: according to official government figures, between March 1 and May 6, a total of 534 sick elderly patients who had tested positive for Covid were discharged from hospitals in Ireland and moved to nursing homes, under instructions from the Irish Government and senior HSE & NPHET officials. This was ordered under the auspices of ‘protecting hospitals under strain’. We included this period in the graph above.

We have written extensively about the Nursing home actions of the the government and NPHET in Freepress.ie. These new hospital figures show conclusively that the hospitals were half empty. Those covid-positive elderly people should have been kept in hospital where sick people are normally treated, not sent back into vulnerable mortally ill nursing home populations to cause havoc. The HSE and Irish Government knew this at the time, and they knew the hospitals were the best place to treat these people.

We wrote about how certain US Governors are now being investigated for similar nursing home decrees by the FBI earlier this month. It has been argued that these actions were taken deliberately to boost Covid-death numbers, to help the pandemic program. Many new readers will find that notion hard to believe, but many of our readers believe this is exactly what happened. If someone can explain why this action was justified feel free to comment below, no registration is required.

Here’s Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s hospital – which is not part of the previous Ireland East hospital group.

St James’s hospital, Ireland’s largest, and four years of bed occupancy levels. Never under strain in 2020.

Same picture. Indeed, you will see the same picture across all Irish hospitals if you chart them yourself in excel or give the numbers a brief examination across all four years. Fifty-four elderly sick Covid patients were transferred from St James’s hospital to understaffed nursing homes by decree.

Why were they discharged if St James’s was almost empty as their own figures show us (at 58%), when they could have received the best acute care in hospital for what the HSE & Government said at the time was a deadly life-threatening disease? This is proof positive of medical negligence resulting in death by St James’s hospital.

Let’s now take a look at a Cancer hospital, St Luke’s Oncology and radiation network. Remember, cancer diagnosis, treatment & detection services were shut down across the country on the basis that Covid was a bigger threat to life (despite the Irish Government and HSE having access to data from Italy in March 2020, whichshowed conclusively that Covid was not a major pandemic threat – we reported on that here.

St Lukes Cancer network, Ireland’s largest. Cancer rates did not half because of Covid.

I think we can all agree that Cancer in Ireland has probably not reduced because of covid, and you can see the steady levels of treatment in this cancer hospital for the previous three years. This shows that people with cancer (a real killer in Ireland, with real mortality figures) was not being treated in the usual numbers. This also means that those cancers will be much worse when eventually treated or detected.

The Irish government and HSE know that screenings for cancer and other killer diseases have been stopped, yet continue into 2021 to advocate for unscientific and devastating lockdowns, despite Covid having killed a relatively small number of people who were not already dying of underlying conditions like Cancer. This is not an insensitive declaration – we are advocating here for hospitals to fully open up so that people can get screened for diseases that are guaranteed to kill more people than Covid. All data shows that Covid has been massively overblown, is not the threat as presented, and the mitigation and protection measures like masks and isolation are total overkill.

Skeptics may say that this data is proof that lockdowns work, but given that global locations without lockdowns have had less mortality than those with lockdowns, their contention will not hold up to any kind of scientific scrutiny. Take Sweden, Florida & North Dakota – there were no lockdowns or mask mandates there and they had less Covid death than all other lockdown states. Like everything about Covid, the actual science proves the Irish Government got everything wrong. The only question is how deliberate it was.

The Covid hysteria pushed by Irish politicians and Government meant that regular hospital admissions were drastically reduced due to appointments being cancelled, and people being afraid to visit the hospitals they pay for via taxation. The Irish government and HSE deliberately withdrew healthcare from the population. What more do the quiet people need to see in order to voice their opposition to what the Irish Government are doing?

The Lasting Health Impact Of Closed Hospitals

No rocket science degree required to figure this one out – even the brainwashed know that stopping hospital treatment on such a wide scale is disastrous. Many people unfortunately still believe the government messaging on Covid, through the spell of Irish mainstream media repetition and paralysis by fear. They are still having trouble understanding the scale of what they have done.

We are facing the biggest existential crisis our people have ever faced due to lockdowns and the suspension of healthcare & democracy in Ireland.

As Per Dr Scott Atlas late last year, “The harms to children of suspending in-person schooling are dramatic, including poor learning, school dropouts, social isolation, and suicidal ideation, most of which are far worse for lower income groups. A recent study confirms that up to 78 percent of cancers were never detected due to missed screening over a three-month period. If one extrapolates to the entire country, 750,000 to over a million new cancer cases over a nine-month period will have gone undetected… Beyond hospital care, the CDC reported four-fold increases in depression, three-fold increases in anxiety symptoms, and a doubling of suicidal ideation, particularly among young adults after the first few months of lockdowns, echoing American Medical Association reports of drug overdoses and suicides… Finally, the unemployment shock from lockdowns, according to a recent National Bureau of Economic Research study, will generate a three percent increase in the mortality rate and a 0.5 percent drop in life expectancy over the next 15 years, disproportionately affecting African Americans and women. That translates into what the study refers to as a “staggering” 890,000 additional U.S. deaths.”

Ireland has roughly the same cancer & disease rates per capita as the United States, which has sixty-seven times the population of Ireland (328 million versus 4.9 million). Dividing Atlas’s 890,000 additional US excess deaths caused by lockdowns by 67 gives you 13,263 additional Irish deaths due to disastrous unscientific lockdowns and shuttering of our health service in Ireland. This doesn’t even take into account suicides because the Irish Government are hiding those figures from the public, or the bigger unemployment rate we face.

Compare these projected death numbers with the 369 people who died with Covid and no underlying conditions for the past 12 months according to HSE, numbers which came via an FOI request C150/71 in February 2020, linked here. You can immediately see that crimes against humanity are occurring, perpetrated by Irish politicians, the HSE, and a complicit media who are legally mandated to investigate these matters in Ireland yet refuse to do so.

The Irish Government have the statistics and are not acting on them by opening up society immediately. At this stage, things have gone well beyond political arse-covering. People are dying unnecessarily and politicians know it. And they’re not dying not from Covid.

There Never Was A Pandemic

Based on this official data there never was a pandemic. Our hospitals were never under strain – not once. Even by the now changed WHO definition of a Pandemic, as reported by the British Medical Journal, there never was one. We see now with certainty how so many doctors and nurses had so much time to make dance videos, while the elderly of the country were wrongly made to fear for their lives.

We see now how they could make those comedy sketches and movie parody videos in full PPE on hospital trolleys, while the lives of our children were so devastatingly impacted by masks that continue to cause fear, erode their sense of self, and cause incredible feelings of guilt and helplessness along with suicidal-ideation.

We showed you that the Government & RTE knew that Covid was not the killer they said it was as early as March of 2020, yet still embarked on this ruinous path deliberately. They really must pay for the death and suffering they have caused, or this wound will fester for decades. We must continue to push for accountability. It will not be easy: so many institutions are so heavily invested in the idea of a pandemic that they cannot let go because of status repercussions, loss of trust issues (for that segment of the population that still believes their lies), and real legal liabilities. Politicians & NPHET operatives know that if the public at large fully understood the scale of what they have done, many would be dangling from lamp posts.

Get out of your echo chambers and put material like this in front of people who are still under the spell of media and political repetition. Each one of you reading this is important. Create your own content, use the excel data we received to make your own comparisons and inferences. Share it.

Lockdowns, and the quarantining of healthy populations, and the deliberate withdrawal of healthcare for a fraudulent pandemic, are crimes against humanity.

These are crimes that the Irish Government, politicians, and various civil servants are clearly guilty of. The evidence is clear now for the currently complicit police to redeem themselves and prosecute this psychopathic Irish establishment.

Michael Martin, Leo Varadkar, Tony Holohan and Stephen Donnelly are the murderous ringleaders: we await their arrest and trial by jury.


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seamus
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seamus
9 March 2021 8:18 pm

Very well done Michael,most,if not all the truth community knew this already but seeing the evidence is staggering,lying,thieving evil bastards,stealing the remaining time people had left in this world with their families and loved ones,and creating a no hope situation for the sick and vulnerable who seen no other way out but to end their own lives.Truly evil bastards are running this clown show,and the front men for them (governments,hospital bosses,doctors and nurses in the know who kept quiet etc.) all need locked up,no exceptions,Nuremberg trials 2.0.But I fear this won’t get too far before lawyers have car crashes or shoot themselves in the back of the head.
Again,nice job….keep praying,He will listen.

Sarah
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Sarah
9 March 2021 8:37 pm
Reply to  seamus

Yes agreed, we all over but to see the stats is helpful for those who were in doubt.

Sarah
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Sarah
9 March 2021 11:56 pm
Reply to  Sarah

*we all knew

robert tyrrell
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robert tyrrell
12 March 2021 4:23 pm

Other than people here. No One cares. People are F**king morons. Period.

alexia abnett
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alexia abnett
10 March 2021 5:49 pm

Who will be charging the ministers so they get arrested? Has someone opened a case against them?

seamus
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seamus
10 March 2021 3:15 pm

I meant also to say earlier that if you go here https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#z-scores-by-country
it’s very eye opening also.

Jonathon
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Jonathon
11 March 2021 1:46 am

Great article Guys, You all need to be commended for all the hard work you put in bringing the truth to light. Keep up the good work! 👍

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Sarah
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Sarah
11 March 2021 10:18 am
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I think it’s just the one lone soldier but everyone sharing is also doing essential work 😉

Michael in Dublin
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Michael in Dublin
27 March 2021 2:45 pm

Could it be that even the 2020 hospital numbers were inflated because a number of these ended up in hospital because of the lockdown and not being able to see a GP in time?

John
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John
14 August 2021 10:12 pm

Great point

Robert
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Robert
14 March 2021 9:05 am

Eugenics

Warren mccrory
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Warren mccrory
26 March 2021 12:39 pm

Any possibility you could one about the hospital s in the north we believe they are doing the same thing

Helen
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Helen
31 March 2021 10:49 am

Ok so I need your help with a set of queries regarding the numbers. We do know that depending on how you present the data this can be used to draw different conclusions, so even though we have a low occupancy this might be to various reasons.
In order to dispell any shred of doubt could you please have a look at the below. I’m trying to answer these but there’s not enough data available.

Here are some variables that might impact the overall capabilities/capacity of hospitals which a robust argument would factor in. These are just off the top of my head. Obviously nowhere near what an experienced data analyst would be able to do: 

*Establishing the baseline:*
– Do the reported numbers represent the standard capacity (ie normal or “preCovid” circumstances) or do they represent adjusted capacity reflective of changes to capacity from impact of pandemic? 
– What proportion of hospitals are managing Covid patients?
– Are any hospitals exclusively for Covid patients? 

*Establishing the impact of Covid patients relative to the baseline:*
– What % of patients are Covid positive (on a per-month basis)?
– What is the difference between the impact on capacity that a Covid patient has compared to a non-covid patient? Are these reflected in the baseline?
– What impacts on capacity do the infrastructural/facilities requirements for managing covid patients have? Are these reflected in the baseline?
– What impacts on capacity do the staffing requirements for managing covid patients have? i.e do covid patients require more or less staff per patient than non-covid patients? Are these reflected in the baseline?
– What were the fluctuating staff levels throughout the pandemic? Are these reflected in the baseline?
– How were staff level fluctuations impacted by Covid? Ie due to infection, quarantining, close contact etc. 

*Establishing capacity relative to projections/preparations:*
– What was the overall strategy around preparing hospitals’ capacity in line with daily/weekly reported covid cases?
– What were the combined capacity projections of ‘business as usual’ hospital operations and covid treatment – in other words, if operations had continued as normal and no provisions made for capacity to treat covid patients what would the capacity %s have been?
– Was capacity restricted in preparation of a surge of covid patients? To what degree? Are these restrictions reflected in the baseline?
– What was the capacity impact of reducing elective procedures on overall capacity?

Any insights would be much appreciated, thank you.

John Macdonald
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John Macdonald
10 March 2021 9:21 am

How do I see the occupancy data? The downloaded zip file contains .xml and .rels files, but no Excel worksheets

John Macdonald
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John Macdonald
10 March 2021 1:49 pm

Thanks Michael. That’s perfect. Good work!

Paul corcoran
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Paul corcoran
12 March 2021 11:35 am

Jasus

Colm
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Colm
10 March 2021 10:10 am

Do you have any info on Intensive Care Unit occupancy? Wasn’t that the particular hospital service that they were worried about putting stress on? Because of the shortage of ventilators?

It wouldn’t surprise me if a side effect of protecting ICU beds was a reduction in occupancy across all hospitals. The HSE is not very efficient. 

But without the ICU numbers, we can’t tell if it was worth it.

Elizabeth Weir
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Elizabeth Weir
28 March 2021 8:03 pm

I work in nursing home ,we shut doors in late feburary and anyone that came out of a hospital had to have two negative tests and had to Delf isolate in room for two weeks ,very hard for people with dementia to self isolate ,I said it from day one it a hoax ,trying to get people to listen to u a nightmare ,every two weeks tested we are ,broke my ankle in January and ended up in naas hospital been carted from one building to another ,I was sitting in a room while I had a cast on ,two staff in room on computers ,I said u not busy ,they said no it quite ,they asked me if I received my vaccine since I worked in a nursing home ,I said ah yeah I got it ,I didn’t I refused it ,didn’t tell them that ,I made conversation with one of them ,I said isn’t it amazing how flu disappeared this year ,I caught one staff member looking to the other ,they put there head down and said nothing ,think they knew I knew ,hospital was empty ,I counted 6 in the ward on beds ,

Karen
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Karen
22 July 2022 9:28 pm

Gemma is a rat

Helen
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Helen
11 December 2022 11:49 pm

I had heard rumours about empty wards since 2020 that now seem corroborated by your analysis. However I sent your research to a friend to get a reaction as she knows a bit of what goes on in hospitals and I was interested  to hear what she had to say. I’ve copied her text to me below (took out some names to protect privacy) and I’d like to hear your comments. 

“This misunderstands and misrepresents what occupancy means. Covid patients were acutely ill for many weeks at a time. They often required intensive or high dependency care. This needs at least two people 24/7 by their bedside plus doctors. Add in the fact that staff themselves were sick, so staff numbers to man other parts of the hospital just weren’t there. Covid patients were often ventilated, early on, they were on ECMO too. Cardiac theatres were turned into Covid wards. They were trying as much as possible to keep Covid away from the general hospital population. Staff treating non-Covid patients were kept away from the rest of the hospital. Staff, of course, were together outside of the workplace. 
Of course general occupancy was down. We all know this. All but dire emergencies were cancelled. They simply weren’t taking things in. Most cardiac surgery transferred to the Mater Private. Other staff (perfusionists for example) were retrained as Covid intensivists to work alongside the IC nurses in twelve hour shifts while it was bad. This article is demeaning and insulting to all those staff members who suffered during those surges. It tells people that they were liars. That they were pretending to be under pressure. That they were pretending when they got into that gear for 12 hours out of daylight to watch very sick people and keep them alive second by second. It tells these people and the very sick Covid patients who survived that they were all involved in an elaborate ruse to trick everyone. It tells people the IC consultant who manages the biggest intensive care department in the country, was acting a part when he stood talking to RTE outside the triage tent in the Mater car park. A proper analysis of what we did wrong in the initial and further stages of the epidemic IS warranted. But this is just all wrong. Totally wrong.”

Helen
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Helen
16 December 2022 8:24 pm
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Hi Michael – can you respond these allegations here that we’ve got it wrong about the hospitals? It’s important to be able to stand over the allegations & it’s important to get every part right when anyone responsible for excess or unnecessary deaths, such as those in nursing homes, is brought to account which i really hope they will be.

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