Charles Knutson was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma June 1st, 2020.  After his diagnosis he was on several chemotherapy agents and initially responded well. Just after the new year in 2021 he developed a lump again on the left side of his neck and was admitted to the University of MN hospital where he was treated with radiation and discharged to home. He was on an oral chemo agent at that time and the summer after had a pet scan that was negative.

Just after the new year 2022 he was admitted to the VA hospital in St. Paul to treat sepsis for streptococcal pneumoniae bacteremia. He was there for four days and then sent home on antibiotics.  He never really felt like he had gotten fully over the pneumonia and sinusitis.  During this time, he began having new symptoms of the lymphoma and was in on 2/24/2022 for a chemotherapy infusion all morning and afternoon. I believe he left about five pm to home.

Our hospital had strict covid routines so it is doubtful they would have administered the infusion if they thought he had covid. Our cancer center is right at the hospital. A couple hours after returning home he began having symptoms of severe weakness and his wife called the ambulance who took him to ER at the same hospital he just left. He had very minimal cough. They did a nasal covid swab that came up positive.

They admitted him to the hospital and even in the notes he argues with them about DNR status and to my knowledge there is no explicit discussion about the remdesivir with him charted. He was against all of these protocols and remdesivir. He according to his wife and son, panicked about what they were giving him and called home worried they were killing him.  Only one family member could visit once daily for two hours. They pushed him to go home on Hospice or “otherwise you won’t have help in the home”, which is not true he has VA benefits. Plus, the family wanted to get him out of there and home.

The family relented and put him on hospice. At first when he went home, he seemed to be doing well, talking and walking as well and taking food and drink, but within a week was down and kept going down to the point he was dehydrated. He was no longer drinking and could not swallow food. He already had a damaged esophagus from the radiation. Hospice in our locale will not give patients IV fluids and routinely expedite their passing with a bag of narcotics.

On 3/18/2022 my brother passed which seemed to me due to kidney failure and dehydration, likely due to administration of Remdesivir.  That fact does not appear on the death certificate. He was placed on Hospice to hide the murder as no labs or testing are done when a person is on Hospice and no IV fluids are given. It was a sure death sentence.  I am an advance practice nurse and, in my opinion, he was murdered by my local hospital with Remdesivir. I will miss him every day of my life, as will the rest of his family, and I want his story told.