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Charlene DelFico is one of many Americans separated from their hospitalized loved ones during Covid lockdowns. In January of 2022, she lost her step-father, who she says was intubated and administered Remdesivir without informed consent. She also nearly lost her mother, who came close to death from dehydration and malnutrition.
In this interview with The New American’s senior editor Rebecca Terrell, Charlene describes the horror of being unable to communicate with her parents or to get timely updates from the hospital. She also reveals a miraculous incident that occurred to clue her in to what her mother was suffering. That single event is the reason her mom is alive today, though struggling with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from her torturous month-long hospital stay.
Charlene says her mother is recovering, however, and is now able to drive again. She recently started going to the pool for exercise and has started composing a “bucket list,” determined to stay active with her new lease on life.
Charlene DelFico lost her step-father and almost lost her mom to deadly hospital protocols back in early 2022. She describes details of the experience in this interview.
In searching for a way to warn others and prevent more deaths and injuries, she launched a website, CovidCrimesAgainstHumanity.com. It gives those with experiences similar to her own a platform.
Charlene also describes the positive effects of her efforts and her grassroots activism at both the state and federal levels to pass the No Patient Left Alone Act. At the federal level a congressman from her own state, U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), has introduced H.R. 1358, to ensure that no patient is ever left without an advocate. She is also working to get similar legislation drafted in New Jersey.
She is working with local grassroots advocates, who have issued a statement that reads in part:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of patients across New Jersey and the nation faced the unimaginable: suffering in isolation, denied the presence of family or an advocate when they needed it most. This wasn’t compassion. This was cruelty—inflicted by policy. Loved ones were silenced, locked out, and stripped of their rightful place at the bedside. Patients endured treatments, fear, and in many cases, death—completely alone.
This must never happen again.
[The No Patient Left Alone Act] guarantees that no patient—regardless of age, illness, or circumstance—will be left without support during hospitalization, critical treatment, or end-of-life care. It affirms a basic truth: human presence is not a privilege—it’s a right. States such as Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma and Georgia have passed similar legislation, and Charlene encourages others to use these bills as a template for their own state legislatures.