“NEED HELP”: Widow Delivers Harrowing Testimony at Sen. Ron Johnson’s COVID Hospital Roundtable — Says Husband Was Ventilated Without Consent and Repeatedly Written Off Because He Was Unvaccinated

Peggy Hokett’s last message from her husband was two words: “Need help.”

A grieving Oklahoma widow delivered disturbing testimony Monday during Sen. Ron Johnson’s latest examination of the federal government and hospital response to COVID-19, alleging her husband was sedated and placed on a ventilator without consent before dying weeks later.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) convened the September 28 roundtable, titled “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People,” bringing patients, family members, physicians, and nurses to Washington to describe their experiences inside hospitals during the pandemic.

According to Senator Johnson’s office, the event was the first of his COVID-related hearings and roundtables devoted entirely to hospital treatment protocols. Read Senator Johnson’s official announcement here

One of the most emotional accounts came from Peggy Hokett, whose husband, Raymond Hokett, died on September 21, 2021.

Johnson introduced Hokett by telling attendees that Raymond died 24 days after being hospitalized in Oklahoma City.

“He was given remdesivir, told he would die because he was unvaccinated, and placed on a ventilator without consent,” Johnson said in introducing her testimony.

Hokett testified that she and Raymond both felt sick on August 25, 2021. Their primary-care office was locked down for COVID, so they went to the ER. Raymond tested positive. His oxygen saturation was 93. Records noted he needed blood platelets. Staff said he would have to go elsewhere to receive them. The ER also said it would refer him for Regeneron. That referral, she said, was never made.

They were sent home and told to come back if he got worse.

Three days later he returned dehydrated, vomiting, with diarrhea. He agreed to a three-to-five-day admission. A doctor told Peggy to go home, get his phone charger and kiss him goodbye.

Records she later obtained showed Miralax, Colace, high-dose narcotics, and 200 milligrams of remdesivir. He left on four liters of oxygen, still at 93 percent saturation. The next morning an infectious-disease doctor called her.

“Your husband’s going to die,” she said he told her. “He’s unvaccinated. What did you expect?”

She later learned he had already received three doses of remdesivir.

On August 30, records showed a fever. Staff pulled his gown, put a fan on him, turned the thermostat down, and put him on BiPAP. That morning he tried to call his wife. He left a message: “Need help.”

Later the same day a nurse called Peggy to talk about discharge and what equipment she would need at home.

On August 31, records showed Prevace, fentanyl, and propofol — and stated clearly there were no open wounds.

On September 1, when she called to check on him, staff said he had to be ventilated because of an “emergency.” The records showed he had already been sedated the day before. Neither Raymond nor Peggy consented, she told the senator.

Every status call after that, she said, produced the same line: He’s dying. He’s unvaccinated. What did you expect?

On September 2, records instructed staff to call LifeShare if his condition worsened. Raymond was not an organ donor.

On September 17 she negotiated her way onto the COVID floor, guarded, she said, by armed guards. She could barely recognize her husband. He was severely bloated. Fluids dripped off his body onto the floor in puddles.

On September 20, the platelets he needed on August 25, the hospital finally requested consent. He received them the day before he died.

On September 21 she was told he would not survive the day. She was allowed to sit with him. Doctors repeatedly asked her to make him a DNR and donate his organs. She said no every time.

Raymond died that day with his wife sitting beside him.

After the body went to the crematorium, the funeral home called. Did they take something out of your husband?

She requested his medical records five times. Staff eventually told her the rest of the file was “garbage” and she would have to pay for that garbage. She paid.

What she found, she testified, were photographs of Raymond’s body and records documenting open wounds and sores she had never been told about.

One deleted file said staff could not perform a spontaneous breathing test because he had an open wound in his abdomen. “I was never supposed to see it,” she said. In less than 10 minutes, they called the organ-donation people.

“My husband was physically and chemically restrained,” Hokett told the room. “And the last words I ever heard from him was, ‘Need help.’”

“Raymond can no longer speak for himself, but I can. I am asking Congress to seek the truth and find out what happened to my husband and many other victims of this severely flawed hospital protocols.”

Via MJTruthUltra:

Twenty-four days after Raymond Hokett walked into an Oklahoma City emergency room in August 2021, the 58-year-old was dead. On Monday, his widow sat before Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and told the country what she says happened in between, remdesivir, a doctor who blamed his vaccine…

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 29, 2026

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