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“Bad Medicine”: The Plandemic Sequel That Blames the Hospitals
The man who made Plandemic has a new film. Its message: COVID patients weren’t killed by COVID, they were killed by the hospitals that treated them. It premieres in Beverly Hills on 15 November, with ivermectin promoter Pierre Kory on stage, then plays one night in US theatres on 16 December. Some of those screenings need only about two dozen ticket sales to go ahead.
15 Novpremiere at the Malibu Film Festival, Writers Guild Theater, Beverly Hills
137US theatres promised for one night, Wednesday 16 December
21–26advance tickets needed to save each of five at-risk screenings
3board certifications Pierre Kory lost to the ABIM in 2024
1. What the film says about itself
From its own website and promotion
- The pitch: “A Mikki Willis Film,” “from the creators of Plandemic.” The site calls it the “smoking gun of the plandemic” and a step-by-step exposé of methods used to “capture and control entire populations.”
- The subject: a “postmortem” on America’s 1,167,210 COVID deaths and the “toxic treatment protocols” used on hospitalized patients. Willis’s post on X sums it up: “They weren’t allowed in the room as they died. Now their families are telling what happened.”
- The premiere: Sunday 15 November 2026, Malibu Film Festival, at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Red carpet at 4 p.m., film at 5, then a Q&A with Willis and Dr. Pierre Kory, moderated by comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore.
- The release: “one night only” in 137 theatres on Wednesday 16 December. Screenings are confirmed only if advance sales reach a goal. Willis warned that five towns (Waconia MN, Portage and Noblesville IN, Wilmington NC and Geneva Lakes WI) would be cancelled without enough sales by mid-November. The film’s site set their goals at 21 to 26 tickets each.
- The book: Bad Medicine: How COVID Protocols Turned Hospitals into Death Traps, by Mikki Willis and Allyson Rimmer, from Skyhorse Publishing, the house that also publishes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- A four-year project, according to chiropractor Bryan Ardis, who told his podcast audience that an interview he gave on hospital protocols at a ReAwaken America tour stop is expected to appear in it.
2. Who is behind it
| Who | Role | Track record |
|---|---|---|
| Mikki Willis | Director | Made Plandemic (May 2020), starring Judy Mikovits. YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo removed it for health misinformation. Sequels: Plandemic: Indoctornation (2020) and Plandemic 3: The Great Awakening (2023). |
| Pierre Kory | Q&A guest; endorses the book | Co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and its best-known ivermectin promoter. In August 2024 the American Board of Internal Medicine revoked his certifications in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care. The FLCCC said the board found he had spread “false or inaccurate medical information.” |
| Jimmy Dore | Q&A moderator | Comedian and online show host who has promoted vaccine-injury and COVID cover-up claims to a large audience. |
| Bryan Ardis | Interviewed, per his own podcast | Texas chiropractor behind Watch the Water (2022), which claimed COVID-19 is snake venom in the water supply. |
| Book endorsers | Named on the film’s site | Sherri Tenpenny, Andrew Wakefield, Del Bigtree, Pierre Kory and supplement seller Edward Group. See our Tenpenny profile. |
3. The claims, and the record
| Claim | The record |
|---|---|
| “Families weren’t allowed in the room.” | True, and it was cruel. Hospitals in the US and Canada barred most visitors, especially in 2020. Families deserve a hearing on that. But being kept out of the room is not evidence that the hospital killed the patient. |
| Remdesivir killed COVID patients. | The WHO’s Solidarity trial, published in The Lancet in 2022, found remdesivir did nothing for patients already on ventilators and gave a small benefit to other hospitalized patients. In the NIH’s ACTT-1 trial it shortened recovery from 15 days to 10. Neither trial found it killed people. |
| “Remdesivir had a 53% death rate in the Ebola trial.” | In the 2018–19 PALM trial in Congo, 53% of Ebola patients given remdesivir died, against 49.7% on ZMapp and about 34–35% on two antibody drugs. There was no placebo group: every patient had Ebola, which killed roughly two in three people in that outbreak. The antibodies simply worked better. |
| Ventilators killed patients. | Ventilators went to people who could no longer breathe on their own. Death rates were high because those patients were the sickest in the hospital, not because the machine killed them. Doctors did learn to delay intubation where they safely could, which is how medicine is supposed to learn. |
| Hospitals were “paid to kill.” | The 2020 US CARES Act added 20% to Medicare’s payment for a COVID-19 hospital stay, because those stays cost more. It paid for care. It paid nothing extra for a death, for remdesivir or for a ventilator. Canadian hospitals, on global budgets, had no such payment at all, and Canadians died of COVID too. |
4. The same story, told again
This is the second feature-length film built on the “hospital protocols” claim. In 2024, Children’s Health Defense released Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill, also a one-night theatre event, also built on families’ stories, with the same claims about remdesivir, ventilators and the 20% payment. Bad Medicine adds the Plandemic brand, a festival premiere and a book.
5. The Canadian angle
- No Canadian screenings are listed on the film’s site. The film’s claims will still reach Canada through social media, a later streaming release, and the book.
- The promotion has already reached Toronto. Toronto Caribbean News ran a piece headlined “Bad Medicine: Death caused by protocols? What are they not telling us.”
- The familiar names. Book endorser Sherri Tenpenny was quoted by Vaccine Choice Canada as recently as this month. See Vaccine Choice Canada: same voices.
- The 20% argument doesn’t travel. Canadian hospitals are not paid per COVID diagnosis, so the film’s money motive has no Canadian equivalent.
A pediatrician’s note
I have stood in hospital rooms with parents whose children were dying. Being shut out of those rooms during COVID was a real and lasting harm, and the families who lived through it deserve answers and an apology for how it was handled. What they don’t deserve is to have their grief recruited, and sold back to them at the box office, to argue that the doctors and nurses who stayed in those rooms were killers. COVID killed more than a million Americans and more than 55,000 Canadians. The hospitals didn’t do that. The virus did.
How the misinformation business works. Seth Mnookin’s The Panic Virus shows how fear, media and celebrity turn a bad claim into a movement.Amazon.ca affiliate link: QuackeryWatch earns a small commission at no cost to you.
Sources
- Mikki Willis (@MikkiWillis), post on X announcing the Bad Medicine trailer, premiere and theatre release, November 2026 (screenshot on file).
- badmedicinemovie.org, official site (description, premiere, theatre goals, book and endorsers), read 13 Nov 2026.
- The Dr. Ardis Show, “Bad Medicine: A Special Message from Dr. Ardis – Nationwide Theater Release December 16th,” November 2026.
- Simon & Schuster (distributor) listing, Bad Medicine, by Mikki Willis, ISBN 978-1-5107-8190-0 (Skyhorse Publishing).
- “ABIM revokes two physicians’ certifications over accusations of COVID misinformation,” MDedge / The Hospitalist, 15 Aug 2024; David Gorski, “ABIM finally revokes two board certifications,” Respectful Insolence, 17 Aug 2024.
- WHO Solidarity Trial Consortium, “Remdesivir and three other drugs for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: final results,” The Lancet, 2022.
- Beigel JH et al., “Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Final Report” (ACTT-1), New England Journal of Medicine, 2020.
- Mulangu S et al., “A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ebola Virus Disease Therapeutics” (PALM), New England Journal of Medicine, 2019.
- Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, 2020, section 3710 (20% add-on to the Medicare inpatient payment for COVID-19 patients).
- Doc Contrarian, “Vaxxed III: Authorized To Kill — The COVID Movie You Need To See,” originally Alabama Gazette, 1 Sep 2024 (a supporter’s review, cited for the film’s claims).
- Toronto Caribbean News, “Bad Medicine: Death caused by protocols? What are they not telling us” (headline as indexed, November 2026).
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