Pierre Kory

This Page began as a Post on 12 June 2026 and is subject to ongoing additions and revisions. Last update: 3 July 2026

My public questioning of Pierre Kory’s experiences in New York City began in February 2023 and involved posting on X and commenting on his Substack.

Dialogue between Pierre Kory and Jessica Hockett in the comments of “The Premature Use of Mechanical Ventilation” on 24-25 February 2023 [Archival]

Example tweets in 2023 follow:

My understanding of his role and significance in both the New York mass casualty event and in the staging of a pandemic changed over time to the point that I came to regard him as a State-Supported/State-Leveraged Actor.

It was difficult to state that conclusion “out loud” – in those terms – due to what I had determined to be the nature of the relationship between Dr. Kory and certain individuals, groups, and organizations. I did say publicly on X that he was “part of the government’s double-sided pandemic op,” in a repost of The Vigilant Fox.

Eventually, this page will be more of a narrative timeline of my interactions with Dr. Kory and how others in the COVID dissident arena responded to those interactions. For now, the sequence of articles and events below are those which involve mention of, debate with, questions for, and/or critique of Dr. Kory’s claims, beliefs, and experiences.

Dr. Kory is briefly mentioned in Ethical boundaries in medical decision-making can be blurred by circumstances, co-authored with Jonathan Engler, co-chair of HART Group, published to the HART Susbtack on 21 August 2023. (Editorial input from HART co-chair Dr. Clare Craig.)
During a September 2023 presentation to the Israeli PECC with Jonathan Engler, I responded to questions from Jessica Rose about what Pierre Kory reported having seen and experienced in New York City, spring 2020, and thereafter.

At some point in late November or early December 2023, Martin Neil and Jonathan Engler invited me to join an existing WhatsApp group that included Pierre Kory and other “early treatment” doctors. I declined. To the best of my recollection, I did so partly because I was not (and am not) a WhatsApp user, partly because I was limiting the number of groups in which I was participating, and partly because I wanted discussions that had been taking place in closed/private messaging groups to occur in public.
On 14 December 2023, myself, Martin Neil, and Jonathan Engler published New York COVID-19 Hospital Frontline: The Silent Witness on Wood House 76, reporting the experience of an anonymous doctor we had interviewed. We linked to Dr. Kory’s website as an exemplar of the spring 2020 “Travel Cadre” that was promoting early treatments for COVID-19.
On 21 December 2023, Martin Neil, Jonathan Engler, and I addressed the perspective of Pierre Kory & Dr. Jackie Stone in ‘Spikeopathy’ does not explain the ‘novel’ symptoms associated with COVID-19, published to Where Are the Numbers?
On 23 December 2023, in response to a thread I posted about Dr. Kory’s experiences, Chair of PANDA Nick Hudson said, “Your article [the Spikeopathy article] is a fine piece, but I don’t understand why you’re on the attack like this, @Wood_House76. I’ve met @PierreKory several times and know that he is (a) as interested in getting closer to truth as you are, (b) capable of listening, engaging and changing his mind (rare for a doctor!) and (c) a warm and fun character who I’ll have a drink with any day. If I had to engage with any doctor coming from a different perspective it would be him.” Martin Neil replied to Hudson: “I’ve asked @PierreKory for his thoughts on the article and suggested we put them on our substack. Public scientific dialogue is good practice and hopefully we can all learn from it, as you say Nick.” I was participating in PANDA at the time of this exchange and (as far as I recall) was not aware when I posted the thread that Hudson and Dr. Kory had met and had presented at some of the same conferences. That knowledge would not have changed the contents of my thread or decision to post it. Hudson later apologized to me privately via Zoom.
On 28 December 2023, I read Charles Wright’s “Questions for Dr. Pierre Kory on COVID Ventilator Deaths” and posted my own questions in the comment section (archived below):

Jessica Hockett’s questions for Pierre Kory posted in comments for Charles Wright’s “Questions for Pierre Kory on COVID Ventilator Deaths” on 28 December 2023 [Archival]

On 9 January 2024, Pierre Kory responded to us in Debate: Was Covid-19 A Pandemic Caused By A Novel Pathogen Or Was It Created Solely By Harmful Policies and Fear Propaganda? via his Substack Pierre Kory’s Medical Musings. Oddly, Kory began the piece by quoting Nick Hudson, Mike Yeadon, and Sean Flanagan (participants in the aforementioned WhatsApp group) instead of focusing his response on what we (Martin Neil, Jonathan Engler, and I) said in the “Spikeopathy” article. Revisiting the response, I note some “Britishisms” in Dr. Kory’s essay, e.g., amongst, as per history, became severe enough to need hospital, once in hospital. I don’t recall if Dr. Jackie Stone (South Africa) was his co-author but if so, the language could have been influenced by her review.
On 16 January 2024, Martin Neil, Jonathan Engler, and I published Our response to Dr Pierre Kory via Where Are the Numbers? We remarked on the inclusion of other voices, saying, “[Dr.] Kory decided to also respond to many other points made in the WhatsApp conversation by three other prominent discussants – Sean Flanagan, Dr Mike Yeadon and Nick Hudson. This has muddied the waters somewhat, allowing Kory to change the frame for the conversation, dodge the specifics of our criticism, and instead address multiple points and arguments we did not indeed make (even though we might agree with them). Hence, much of Kory’s response is NOT the response to our article at all.”
On ~16-17 January 2024, Jonathan Engler sent a request, via third party, to Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute, asking Tucker to consider writing a short piece making people aware of the “debate” with Dr. Kory and linking to the corresponding articles, in order to raise awareness of the questions raised and discussed. I don’t recall whose idea that proposal was or why the request wasn’t sent directly to Tucker, given Brownstone had published two articles (here and here) that included Dr Engler and Prof Neil and myself. (Emails from the timeframe don’t point to a reason and I did not retain copies of conversations with Dr Engler and Prof Neil from Slack and Signal.) Tucker declined via the third party, saying, “to me these questions are inevitable but beside the point really. It makes the most extreme and hard-to-prove claim possible and causes distraction from the myriad disasters otherwise. In other words, the severity issue is interesting but beside the point concerning the right way to respond. That said, these people have done some great research.” [Note: This was a different request from the one we made of Tucker in October 2024.]
On 22 January 2024, I posted questions for Dr Kory about his Madison (WI) and New York City experiences to Wood House 76 under Pierre Kory’s New York Story. I conceived, generated, and emailed these questions to Dr. Kory independently. I don’t recall notifying Prof Neil or Dr. Engler, or asking them to review the questions, though it’s possible I did.
To my surprise, Dr. Kory video-recorded responses to my questions, sent the videos via email on 24 January 2024 and gave permission to post the videos. Text of first email: Jessica – I finally managed to video record my answers to your quite extensive list of questions. Although I think this idea that no new novel pathogen existed is completely off-base,, I because you were respectful in your Substack (unlike many of your commenters who attacked my integrity and honesty) and you truly evinced a desire to learn more so as to try to better formulate a hypothesis or understanding of what happened, I recorded my answers on zoom videos and will share the folder with you on google drive. Hope this helps, thanks Pierre

I transcribed what Dr. Kory said and posted the transcription with the videos on 8 February 2024, under Pierre Kory responds to my questions about his spring 2020 COVID experience on Wood House 76. One of the more puzzling and indefensible things he said is that he did not think a formal inquiry of New York hospitals is warranted, if only on the basis of the high number of younger-adult deaths in hospitals. “No,” he said. “The hospitals, they just weren’t being aggressive. They were doing supportive care only and that was the terrible thing that they did.”
On 3 May 2024, I wrote a short post on Wood House 76 asking why Dr. Kory and another medical simulation specialist, Dr. Colleen Smith, saw younger adults in New York City hospitals who were very sick with COVID-19.
On 24 May 2024, via Peter McCullough Is a Pandemicist AND an Example of What the Dual-Sided Government Operation Wanted Americans to Hear in 2020 on Wood House 76, I said Peter McCullough and Pierre Kory were “part of a staged ‘COVID treatment’ debate from get-go,” whether [they] knew it or not.
On 1 June 2024, I included what Pierre Kory said to me via video, and elsewhere previously, about seeing young people with COVID-19 in hospitals in spring 2020 in Message: The Young and Healthy Are at Risk from COVID-19 on Wood House 76.
On 8 June 2024, in The Whistleblower: My Reactions to the Sworn Testimony of Dr. James Miller, I said, “The similarities and diﬀerences between Miller’s testimony and Pierre Kory’s responses to me are striking, despite the diﬀerence [sic] in location. I am currently of the opinion that Dr. Kory may have been unwittingly used by The U.S. Department of Homeland Security or another agency to cover up a staged event involving fraud, euthanasia, and iatrogenic measures.”
On 8 August 2024, I posted a lengthy open letter to Pierre Kory on Wood House 76 – Open Letter to Pierre Kory Regarding His Spring 2020 Experiences in Madison and New York City – in response to the claims he made in his video responses to me. The letter includes a constructed timeline of Dr Kory’s experiences in the first five months of 2020, documentation from UW-Madison, and references to reports, data, studies, and articles. The six-month “gap” between Dr. Kory’s video-recorded responses to me and my reaction/analysis was due to needing time to sift through and further research his claims, needing time to consider how to frame and direct my response so as not to risk being subjected to a defamation lawsuit, and managing competing priorities. I was not, as some alleged, “protecting” or avoiding Dr. Kory in any way.
On 23 September 2024, I posted materials/records obtained from NYC Health + Hospital Corporation for a January 2019 pandemic simulation that was also featured in a Netflix series. In a “related notes” section, I remarked, “Earlier this year, I asked Dr. Pierre Kory, who has a background in medical simulation, whether he thought it was possible he walked into a kind of live-exercise simulation using real patients at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in late April 2020. He said no, albeit indirectly. See also number 7) in this letter for further evaluation.”
On 16 December 2024, in New York City Spring 2020: An unsubstantiated mass casualty event that appears fraudulent and staged (Wood House 76), I listed Dr. Pierre Kory among the elevated doctors whose accounts of the spring 2020 “emergency” accepted and reinforced the premise of a novel coronavirus spreading, killing people at home, and filling hospitals with patients who needed new or repurposed treatments. Kory arrived in Manhattan after the reported death peak, yet was quickly positioned as a Senate witness to a crisis. His accounts sound less like observations of a naturally unfolding disease emergency than participation in a managed operation or treatment experiment using real patients.
On 22 December 2024, I wrote a short article on Wood House 76 expressing my view on Ivermectin and HCQ – What Do I Think About Ivermectin and HCQ? – that listed Pierre Kory as among those involved with the Early Treatment theatre.
On 30 April 2025, in More thoughts on Virus Hunting on Sanity Unleashed, Jonathan Engler and I highlighted an interview with Pierre Kory that Dr. Engler had found. My intent was not to endorse or validate anything Dr. Kory said in the interview about treatments or vaccines, but to point out how the “early treatment” argument protects the core lie about sudden-spreading viruses and pandemics.
On 4 March 2025, in Follow-Up on ‘Informed Assent’: More Signs that Spring 2020 Was…Not What it Seemed to Be, I used Dr Kory’s testimony to show that unilateral DNR orders for COVID patients were not, in his view, normal or ethical ICU practice, nor were they something he witnessed in NYC. Kory’s account contrasts with the Katsaros family’s allegation and with broader spring 2020 “informed assent” guidance, both of which appear to me more troubling than routine.
On 12 May 2025, I used some of the things Dr. Kory said to illustrate a theory about alternative meanings of COVID-19 in Is there any possible way for SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 to have a “lab origin” – and origins distinct from one another? (Wood House 76)
On 12 June 2026, I began the post that turned into this page for the purpose of documenting events involving Dr. Kory that individuals have misrepresented in the past and/or continue to misrepresent. I’ve intentionally omitted some experiences and information for personal reasons and will add those as/if/when needed.