Angelica White & Jessica Hallgren: KILLED BY REMDESIVIR?

Told by

Julie Schlipp

Jessica’s mother

“Trinity Hospital gave my daughter Jessica Remdesivir though she refused.

Tied her hands when she fought for the truth.

They forced the vent, pushed the tube down her throat.

Cut her baby from her womb.

My daughter said no with her voice, she said no with all her might.”

Jessica walked into a Michigan hospital while pregnant, one of the most vulnerable conditions a woman can be in, and one that demands heightened caution, individualized care, and fierce protection of both mother and baby. Instead, from the moment she was admitted on November 30, 2021, Jessica was placed on a rigid, incentive-driven hospital protocol that ignored pregnancy, disregarded safer alternatives, and prioritized compliance over conscience.

Despite the existence of known, safe treatment options that could have been used for pregnant women, Jessica’s family watched as the hospital refused early treatment and denied requests for alternatives. Medications with established safety profiles were dismissed while drugs carrying serious risks, especially to pregnant patients, were pushed as “standard of care.”

This was not a medical judgment call made in Jessica’s best interest. It was a protocol decision, financially incentivized and institutionally enforced.

Jessica was isolated, cut off from advocacy at the very moment she needed it most. Her family’s concerns were brushed aside. Their voices were muted. Like so many families during this time, they were made to feel powerless, forced to watch from a distance as irreversible decisions were made about Jessica’s body and her unborn child without meaningful consent or transparency.

As the days passed, Jessica’s condition deteriorated, not because COVID demanded it, but because aggressive escalation was chosen instead of thoughtful, patient-centered care.

Heavy sedation followed. Then ventilation. The same pattern families across the country describe again and again unfolded here: rapid oxygen escalation, powerful sedatives, and the steady stripping away of Jessica’s ability to breathe, speak, or advocate for herself or her baby.

Jessica never came home. On December 14, 2021, she died in the hospital. Her newborn baby would not know her mother. The loss is immeasurable.

Jessica left behind a husband who lost his partner and the future they were building together, and children who lost their mother. No protocol chart captures the trauma of explaining to children why their mom isn’t coming home. No hospital policy accounts for the lifetime of grief that follows a preventable death. And no incentive payment offsets the human cost paid by this family.

Julie Schlipp, Jessica’s mother, bravely shared this story not because it is easy, but because silence only protects the systems that caused this harm.

Her testimony exposes the truth: this was not an unavoidable tragedy. It was the result of deliberate choices, made by an institution that refused to treat Jessica as a pregnant woman with unique needs, and instead reduced her to a protocol checkbox.

What happened to Jessica reflects a broader pattern seen across the country during COVID, one marked by:

•Denial of early and individualized treatment

•Refusal of safer alternatives

•Forced isolation of patients

•Heavy sedation and premature ventilation

•Ignoring pregnancy, informed consent, and family advocacy

•Financially incentivizeprotocols replacing ethical medicine.

These are not accidents. They are egregious violations of trust and humanity, carried out under the guise of emergency care.