Midazolam usage in Italy in spring 2020.
10,000 doses delivered on Saturday 21 March 2020 as the hospitals "suddenly needed three or four times the normal amount of this drug".
I’d actually forgotten this (there’s so much to remember) but was reminded of it via this comment, left underneath my post trying to generate more interest in what was being said at the Scottish Inquiry.
Anyway, Lizzy’s comment jogged my memory and I uncovered this tweet of mine from just over a year ago:
The webpage I cited is this one. I have added a PDF of it below in case for whatever reason this is taken down.
Some highlights from that:
The text reads (my emphasis):
On the morning of March 21, 2020, a delivery vehicle out of Melsungen, Germany, arrived at the warehouse in Mirandola. It was a Saturday, and normally there were no deliveries on weekends. In these times, though, nothing was normal. The vehicle was carrying 10,000 doses of the sedative midazolam, which was urgently needed in Italy for the mechanical ventilation of thousands of COVID-19 patients who needed help breathing. Gabriele Ceratti worked with the italian team in Milano and Mirandola to make the delivery possible in just a few days.
Mr. Ceratti, what challenges did you face when procuring the sedative?
Due to the extremely critical situation, the hospitals suddenly needed three or four times the normal amount of this drug. We knew that we would have to get it from another country, but to do that we first needed a special permit - the vials of midazolam from Melsungen had labels in German and English, but only labels in Italian are allowed here.
Why did you and your team decide to take on this responsibility?
In those awful days of the first wave, we saw how the hospitals were in desperate need and we knew right away that we had to respond. Even though we got the ball rolling, it never would have worked without the Regulatory Affairs people at B. Braun in Italy and Germany. They, too, immediately took responsibility and acted. This kind of permit normally takes weeks, but we got it in just a few days. It was an extraordinary situation.
How did you get through that difficult time?
It’s the result of having a great team at B. Braun - both here and in Germany. We could feel the support of our German colleagues quite a lot. Everyone was so kind and sensitive, they understood it was time to respond immediately in order to help Italy and all the patients in this terrible situation.
What gives you hope?
The emergency procurement of midazolam was the first time, but certainly not the last time in this crisis, that we were able to help quickly. We were able to do something similar with the sedative propofol and pumps for hospital beds.
Updated per RJJ’s comment below.
Ireland too, so it seems:
It amazes me that they were facing a respiratory virus "pandemic" and the first thing they reach for is a sedation for end of life care. Does it not make more sense to look to the arsenal you have and use in every previous respiratory infection outbreak and make sure that you have all the treatments for this in abundance, the last thing should be a respiratory depressant.
Three years later the indispensable truth of the Italian story is once you scratch beneath the surface of the official narrative of the Covid Pandemic it turns out to be a bottomless snake pit of distortions, manipulations and outright lies.
Any excess deaths in Spring 2020 in Northern Italy were an artifact of already existing health conditions in an aging population, the obliteration of the existing health care infrastructure, massive industrial pollution creating chronic conditions, media generated hysteria, savage government lockdowns and administrative murder of the already fragile.
These iatrogenic deaths of fragile people were the result of the social order and public health despotism and then used to give the impression that there was “a deadly virus” circulating.
The only pandemic was one of violent government and biomedical assault against people.
The evidence from Italy in 2020 exposes the official “Covid” narrative for what it is- a cold-blooded organized deception.
There was no pandemic.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/03/07/italy-2020-inside-covids-ground-zero-in-europe/