This is a current list of U.S. researchers from whom I have requested data or data clarification related to the New York City spring 2020 mass casualty event and have been ignored or denied. It replaces a list published on 5 January 2026.
1) “Medication utilization in patients in New York hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic”. No response from Arash Dabestani, NYC Langone, to a February 2023 email requesting data underlying all graphs.
Midazolam data from the study is highlighted in “Ethical boundaries in medical decision-making can be blurred by circumstances”. I discussed what I believe the medication time-series data in all six figures suggests about the event during two presentations: one to PECCC in August 2023 and one to Vivienne Fischer and Wolfgang Wodarg in May 2024.
2) “A Snapshot of Emergency Department Volumes in the “Epicenter of the Epicenter” of the COVID-19 Pandemic” Lead and corresponding author Nicola Feldman initially seemed willing to provide me with the data underlying figures 1 and 2, when I requested it inDecember 2022. She asked me what I wanted to do with the data and said she would check with her PI (Principal Investigator). That was the last I heard from her. She didn’t reply to my second attempt in May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20250325140819mp_/https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/difficulties-obtaining-raw-data-for
3) “Outcomes of COVID-19 Admissions in the New York City Public Health System and Variations by Hospitals and Boroughs During the Initial Pandemic Response” In January 2023, I emailed Ryan Engdahl with a request for data underlying all graphs and tables in the study. He replied once, in early February (“are you still interested in this and what it is ref to?), but not to my reply that day — nor to attempts I sent on 2 March 2023, 8 July 2023, and 28 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20250325140819mp_/https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/difficulties-obtaining-raw-data-for
4) Early Intubation and Increased Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality: A Propensity Score–Matched Retrospective Cohort Study After responding once to a July 2023 inquiry about discrepancies I found between data I obtained via FOI request from NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation (HHC) and data reported by Austin Parish and his colleagues, I received no further replies from Dr Parish.1 May 2024, I made another attempt and copied Dr. John Ioannidis, after realizing that Dr. Parish was at METRICS, the center co-directed by Ioannidis, when the study was conducted. Details here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240911170203/https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/update-still-attempting-to-resolve
5) “System impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City’s emergency medical services“. David Prezant, Chief Medical Officer of Fire Department New York (FDNY), denied my February 2024 request for data underlying Figures 1 and 2, saying, “At this time, we cannot provide this.” Neither the study nor any city or federal agency has sufficiently explained or investigated the massive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) event the city experienced in spring 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20241203144800/https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/at-this-time-we-cannot-provide-this
6) Comparison of Estimated Excess Deaths in New York City During the COVID-19 and 1918 Influenza Pandemics – On 20 December 2025, I asked Dr. Jeremy Faust for data underlying the figure (graph A and graph B). I said, “I believe there may be conflict between the data you obtained and data available through the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and would like to compare. I am happy to share the comparison and any differences I observe.” Dr. Faust did not respond.
7) “Innovations in Fatality Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic. I reached out to Laura Iaviocoli with a request for raw numbers and other information related to the mass casualty event and excess death periods during which the “innovations in fatality management” were employed. No acknowledgement or response received. (Reported here).
“No one wants to touch this”
The patterns and discrepancies I’ve observed in or extrapolated from the above studies constitute some of the more salient fraud signals of the New York event. The “dynamic silence” I’ve experienced regarding these signals is curious and unsettling. One associate put it well three years ago when he said to me of the New York event, “Jessica, no one wants to touch this.”
That’s still true in 2026, but the authors of the above studies (most whom hold MDs or PhDs) have a duty to rise to the standard set by the credentials they earned and, in some cases, the taxpayer-funded data they used, to supply data upon reasonable request, if not help reconcile conflicting results. Where discrepancies exist, I strongly suspect they reflect not researcher misconduct but defects in the data itself.
This list is not intended to be an indictment of doctors, academics ,or academic journals. My experiences with data requests and general questions to U.S. and non-U.S. researchers regarding COVID-related studies that are not focused on the New York City event have been positive, i.e., researchers have responded in a timely manner, provided data, answered questions, etc.
- My attempt to get a response from the public hospital system that provided the data was also unsuccessful, as I described here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240803071154/https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/covid-death-discrepancy-for-nyc-public ↩︎
REMOVED from list: Silverman/Washburne. I was apparently mistaken about having sent an email in February 2025 and have apologized to the authors for not checking to make sure my email was received, as they did respond promptly to requests in 2022 and 2023 . Reported here https://woodhouse76.com/2025/02/11/discrepancies-in-new-york-city-influenza-like-illness-ili-syndromic-data-obtained-from-the-city-health-department-in-2020-and-2022/
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