Mon Sep 20, 2021 – 12:22 pm EDTMon Sep 20, 2021 – 12:22 pm EDT
HAMILTON, Massachusetts (LifeSiteNews) — Following a nine-day ordeal in which she was refused treatment for COVID-19 and pneumonia, and effectively separated from her family, Janet Aldrich has been released from hospital.
For nine days, 78-year-old Aldrich was denied the care she requested for her life-threatening health conditions, even being forcibly placed into isolation after revealing to medics that she hadn’t (and wouldn’t) receive an experimental COVID-19 shot.
Aldrich was admitted to Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, on September 5 after developing pneumonia in both of her lungs. Upon arrival at the hospital, Aldrich clarified her wishes not to be put onto a ventilator, but after testing positive for COVID-19, doctors insisted she use mechanical ventilation, telling her she could be dead within 24 hours if not.
LifeSiteNews spoke with a close family friend of Aldrich, who said the hospital became very hostile after Aldrich refused to use ventilation. “They every single day pressured her, hammered her, tried to wear her down to get her to agree to go on the ventilator,” she said.
The hospital continued to push
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