Contaminated vaping products, particularly those with Vitamin E oil, led to severe respiratory issues and ICU admissions in young individuals.

“right before Co hit I can't tell you how many young kids were being admitted to my ICU on ventilators — it was a little different at that time because it was so expansive that people were making Vitamin E oil to cut the nicotine and they were making basically garage out of their garage brand Vapes and selling it and these kids were ending up in the ICU this is totally unrelated to co this is totally unrelated to co okay and to be fair totally unrelated to the brand of vaping the brand names so this is off-label stuff people making their own thing and selling it it was crazy”