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Eithan Haim's avatar

I'm a surgery resident working in a large medical center in Texas. Over the last six months, I have personally treated six patients who had major clotting episodes within 1-3 weeks following either dose of the Pfizer vaccine or after the booster. Not a single event was reported to VAERS. The few times I tried to register with VAERS I lost the patients to follow up (these were patients who were either too poor to afford reliable phone access or homeless).

The most egregious was a patient I operated on for a carotid endarterectomy. A few days before I was looking through his chart and noticed he was on life-long blood thinners. It turns out a year earlier he had a massive PE after his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The PE was large enough that he required ECMO. Luckily he recovered.

Even though the patient had developed the clot within 24 hours of the vaccine, the PE was determined to be "spontaneous," meaning it had not occurred after an inciting event. Inciting events are anything out of the ordinary that is a known risk factor for clotting (for example trauma, prolonged flights or car rides with little walking, and yes, even vaccines). I was absolutely dumbfounded when I saw the original Hematology note. It stated "the etiology of PE likely not related to to Pfizer vaccine since published studies show low incidence of blood clotting after vaccination."

For the non-medical people, the logic of saying this PE was not related to vaccine even though it occurred 24 hours after the vaccination is like saying a car accident involving a drunk driver is not related to the alcohol because all the previous times the driver had driven drunk he had not been involved in a car accident. A observation period (duration the course of the study) was used to examine for the potential adverse event. Once that study was over any future adverse events were discounted.

Even worse is that once the clot was determined to be spontaneous the patient is prescribed life-long anticoagulation. This significantly increases his risk for future life-threatening intracranial bleeding events. Especially since this guy is a sickly vasculopath and prone to falls.

This is all to say that in my limited experience I have encountered six patients in six months who suffered adverse events that were not reported to VAERS. If you estimate the average number of patients I see on a monthly basis, it becomes frightening to think that in this relatively short period of time I encountered six patients who had major clotting events very soon after the vaccine/booster. This makes me very suspicious the extent of this problem is monumentally more severe that even Dr. Malone is estimating.

What is most frightening is how many of my colleagues are unwilling to even ask the question. They will see the vaccination occurred within a few days of the PE or stroke. Not a single one thought of bringing up this as a possible cause. Instead they let that patient believe these clotting events were spontaneous events. Of course many of these people went on to get boosted for a second or third time.

We are truly living in crazy times. I am thankful for those of us who are willing to speak truth. G-d Bless.

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LDT's avatar

Praying that parents love their kids more than they love 'obedience to authority' or worshiping 'The Science'. Thank you for continuing to put out the message so clearly and persistently, Dr. Malone.

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