Danielle Baker, 45, received the coronavirus vaccine in 2021 after being appointed as a nurse in Ohio (pictured in nursing scrubs and mask)
Patients seriously injured after receiving mandatory coronavirus vaccinations say they feel “abandoned” by the government and doctors.
DailyMail.com has heard from dozens of health care workers, federal employees and military personnel who say they were left with debilitating side effects after getting the vaccine, even though their jobs legally require them to do so. Ta.
Three of the women said that while they remain “pro-vaccine”, speaking out about their injuries has led to them being labeled “anti-vaxxers.”
Official U.S. data shows coronavirus vaccines have prevented millions of deaths worldwide and serious side effects are extremely rare, affecting about 1 in 200,000 people.
But experts say efforts to quash harmful anti-vaccine misinformation are treating people with genuine injuries after getting vaccinated like outcasts.
Michelle Utter from Florida was told she had to get the coronavirus vaccine in 2021 so she could go visit her military sons at the port.
Within a few days, the former athlete was crawling on the floor and felt like he was “on fire from the inside.” Now a mother of three, she can barely stand long enough to make dinner.
Meanwhile, Danielle Baker in Ohio was at her “healthiest” when she agreed to get vaccinated so she could continue working as a nurse.
Within hours of the second injection, she suffered from incapacitating back pain. She is currently suffering from heart and lung failure and doesn’t know how much time she has left.
And Gina Henson in Texas got the vaccine to protect the elderly at the care home where she worked.
Six months later, she developed inflammation in her brain that led to a stroke and spent more than three months in the hospital recovering. She can no longer work.
Ms Baker (pictured left and right with her husband) claims the vaccine “knocked my immune system over the edge”, causing transverse myelitis and leading to heart and lung failure. .
As of September 2024, approximately 13,400 coronavirus claims have been filed with the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), a government program that provides compensation for medical injuries and deaths.
But only one in four applications is reviewed, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Of the cases surveyed, 58 were “subject to compensation.” To qualify, you must be able to prove that the injury was directly caused by the vaccine.
Baker had no plans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The 42-year-old, who contracted the disease in 2020, thought she had developed natural immunity.
However, in May 2021, the nurse, who has been working for the past 20 years, received a mass email from her employer saying, “If you don’t get vaccinated by July, you will lose your job.”
Baker, now 45, told DailyMail.com: “I felt like I needed it to stay in my position.”
She said the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine had only mild side effects, but “it was the second dose that really worked.”
Within hours, Baker was experiencing severe pain from the arm where he received the injection to his face.
When the pain didn’t subside the next day, she thought she might have gotten the wrong injection and hit a nerve.
“Unfortunately, there was a lot more going on,” she said.
Over the next month she began suffering from “extreme back pain” and was unable to walk or control her bladder or bowels.
“That’s not going to happen,” she told her husband. “People don’t go from the healthiest they’ve ever been to this.”
Doctors diagnosed her with a disease called transverse myelitis. The disease occurs when parts of the spinal cord become inflamed and damage myelin, the protective sheath that surrounds nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
The damage blocks the messages the spinal cord sends to other parts of the body, causing severe pain, muscle weakness, paralysis, and bladder and bowel dysfunction.
It’s usually caused by a virus, but the Mayo Clinic says vaccinations “may be a trigger.”
Her medical records, reviewed by DailyMail.com, state that her symptoms were due to an “adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
Baker, who is pictured with her husband and children, told DailyMail.com: My son has been asking me for a long time, “Mommy, when will it get better?” And I think he finally accepted that I wasn’t going to do that.”
Baker’s neurologist explained that when she contracted the coronavirus in 2020, she likely contracted the long coronavirus, which weakened her immune system.
“The vaccinations overwhelm my immune system and make me disabled,” Baker said.
Baker, who was once a soccer mom who hunted and fished “always in nature,” could no longer breathe without supplemental oxygen or driving. Some days I can barely get any clothes on.
She added: “We don’t know how much time we have, so we are faced with the reality of planning my funeral.
“The impact has been devastating both emotionally and financially. Everything we have has been taken away.
“I feel sorry for the family. My son has been asking me for a long time, ‘Mommy, when will it get better?’ And I think he finally accepted that I wasn’t going to do that. ”
Despite her experience, Baker told the website that she is “not particularly against vaccines.”
“My problem is the lack of follow-up for people who have these side effects.
“And if you have a problem, no one is going to help you.”
Before receiving the coronavirus vaccine in January 2021, 52-year-old Michelle Attar was in the “best shape” of her life.
The mother of three ran three to six miles a day and regularly participated in workouts such as CrossFit and martial arts.
“I was in the prime of my life,” she said.
When he tried to visit his two sons in the military, who will be arriving in port in 2021, he was told that all visitors needed to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“I took the plunge and filmed it so I could see the kids,” she said.
It’s unclear how long visitors have been required to be vaccinated and whether this is the case nationwide.
However, a 2021 memo to military personnel obtained by DailyMail.com says visitors to the ports “must be vaccinated per reference and receive a booster dose of vaccine if eligible.” It has been stated.
In August 2021, the Navy began requiring all members to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, in accordance with service-wide policy.
This obligation was abolished in January 2023.
Michelle Attar, 55, of Florida, was at the “peak point” of her life when she was required to get vaccinated to see her military sons in port.
About 40 minutes after receiving the second vaccination, Utter, who normally continues to receive vaccinations, began to feel the needle coming out of her skin.
“In the end, I felt like it was kind of burning inside of me,” she said. “I’ve never felt so tired in my life. I’ve never felt so sick in my life.”
She was in so much pain that she fell to the floor, unable to move her left side, and crawled to the bathroom.
She said, “This was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever had to go through in my life.” I looked at myself in the mirror and I had never been so scared. ”
Attar was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).
This occurs when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath, a protective layer around peripheral nerves on the outside of the brain and spinal cord.
The cause is not well understood, but a small number of cases are thought to be related to the coronavirus vaccine.
Utter, now 55, must undergo expensive antibody therapy costing thousands of dollars to treat the condition.
The treatment has wiped out all of her savings, and she now fears losing her home and car.
She said, “No one studies us.” The government has abandoned us and we are left with an economic burden.
“I miss her because I’m not the person I used to be anymore. This was the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my life.”
Attar claims that the vaccine caused her to suffer from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). It’s a rare autoimmune disease that requires a drug called IVIG (pictured), which she says is so expensive she has used up her savings.
gina henson No symptoms developed immediately after receiving either dose of the Pfizer vaccine in February 2021.
Six months later, the 52-year-old suffered a stroke.
Doctors told her the stroke was likely caused by vasculitis, which occurs when blood vessels become inflamed.
This thickens blood vessel walls and restricts blood flow to vital organs.
For Henson, it was her brain.
The exact cause of vasculitis is unknown, but infections, certain blood cancers, and autoimmune conditions have been shown to cause vasculitis.
Research results are mixed, but some case studies have linked vasculitis to the coronavirus vaccine.
In one case report from 2023, a healthy 47-year-old woman sought help from her doctor due to weakness, severe back pain, and swelling in both legs.
She had just received her first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine three days earlier.
M.S. Mr. Henson’sThe stroke left her with no movement on the right side of her body. She spent three months recovering in a hospital and rehabilitation center, but when she tried to return to work, she could barely get around without a walker.
She then retired from her job.
Henson, now 55, told DailyMail.com: “I was running circles around the nurses. Now I can barely walk.”
Researchers estimate that more than 19.8 million deaths have been averted by coronavirus vaccines. The red line shows deaths that would have occurred if there was no vaccine available, and the blue shading represents all deaths directly averted by the vaccine
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, expressed his sympathies to everyone affected by the rare side effects of the coronavirus vaccine.
But he stressed that avoiding vaccines for fear of complications is far riskier than getting vaccinated.
“During 2021, people who were not vaccinated were 12 times more likely to be hospitalized and die than those who were vaccinated,” he said.
“The following year, in 2022, you will be six times more likely to be hospitalized and die.
“The choice not to get vaccinated is not a risk-free choice. It is now a choice to take other risks more seriously.”
According to CDC data, there are only two well-established serious side effects after receiving a coronavirus vaccine: anaphylaxis and two types of heart damage, myocarditis or pericarditis.
Approximately 5 cases occur per 1 million doses, or 1 case in 200,000.
“These are probably some of the most studied vaccines in the world,” Dr. Offit said.
“Once this vaccine started rolling out and hundreds of millions of people were inoculated, systems like the Vaccine Safety Datalink emerged to find out who got the vaccine and who didn’t.
“We did not see any other side effects related to the vaccine compared to people who did not receive the vaccine.”
