New Zealand doctor Alison Goodwin is calling for a wider investigation into deaths and serious injuries she believes may have been associated with Covid-19 vaccination, after RCR revealed that more than 311,000 teenagers received a second Covid vaccine dose after officials were advised of a myocarditis risk.
Speaking to RCR, she said New Zealand had officially recognised four deaths as being caused by Covid-19 vaccination, all involving myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.
The deaths involved a 57-year-old woman who died in July 2021, a 13-year-old boy who died in October 2021, Rory Nairn, who died in November 2021, and 42-year-old Amanda Smees, who died in February 2022.
Goodwin said that ACC had paid compensation for six fatal injuries, two more than the four deaths officially attributed to vaccination. She said she had sought information from the Ministry of Health, ACC and Health New Zealand about the additional two cases, including whether they involved myocarditis, but had been unable to establish the circumstances of those deaths.
She said she was aware of people who had presented to hospitals, doctors and emergency departments with symptoms including a racing heart, tightness or heaviness in the chest, but had been told they were anxious.
“When you’ve had a medical procedure that could cause those [symptoms], you don’t jump to anxiety first,” she said. “You need to exclude whether there is something physically wrong with the heart first”.
Goodwin argued there should be a systematic audit of deaths following vaccination to determine whether vaccination may have contributed, as the issue extends beyond myocarditis and beyond young people.
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