A new web series launching this week offers an unflinching look at the personal toll of Covid-19 vaccine injuries in New Zealand.
The series amplifies the voices of those harmed by the vaccines, often overlooked by the health system and mainstream narratives.
Episode 1 is now featuring the experience of Tauranga woman Ange, a former yoga teacher and rest home healthcare worker.
“Ange’s Story – Micro Clots & Costochondritis after the mRNA Injection”
In this powerful first episode of The Tribute, the story of Ange, a former yoga teacher and dedicated healthcare worker from Tauranga is featured.
Once known for her boundless energy—rising at 5 a.m. for runs up Mount Maunganui, teaching yoga classes, and thriving in CrossFit—Ange’s life changed dramatically after receiving a single Pfizer mRNA injection in 2021. As a frontline health worker in a rest home, Ange felt she had no choice but to get vaccinated to keep her job and support her family.
“It happened straight away for me. I started to get stabbing pain on the left side of my chest. My daughter rushed me to the emergency department, and the doctor there said to me that I was the fourth person that day that had had this sort of reaction. They don’t know what’s going to happen to me.”
Sent home with a ‘wait and see’ approach, her symptoms worsened: relentless chest tightness, rashes, metallic taste in her mouth, extreme fatigue, elevated D-dimer levels revealing evidence of blood clotting, and ongoing inflammation.
Specialists, including immunologist Dr. Rohan Ameratunga, diagnosed her with vaccine-induced long COVID and costochondritis which is inflammation of the cartilage connecting the ribs to the breastbone. “I still have that too to this day,” Ange explains.
Further testing by researcher Dr. Anna Brooks revealed micro-clots in her blood — findings linked directly to the vaccine reaction, as Ange had never had COVID-19.
As a qualified health-worker, Ange explains what she learned: “These micro clots are microscopic and they pass through the vein and clog them up for like a second or two, but it’s not enough to have a full on stroke. They’re too small, but over time, if you’re not keeping that blood thin, like taking blood thinners, the blood will kind of stick together, and you have a mini stroke or a mini heart attack.”
Ange endured over 100 hospital visits, profound medical gaslighting, placed on mental health drugs and eventually ended up in a psych facility.
“The doctor would be like, ‘it’s all in your head’. There was one time I was on the floor for five hours in the emergency department, holding my heart like crying and begging for them to help me. The doctors were just walking past me.”
She lost everything: her job, home, relationships, friends and the vibrant spirit that defined her.
“Both my daughters have got trauma from it. They saw me as an on the go—super mum, to just in bed all day with the curtain shut. And my partner at the time had to carry me to the shower. I had to be propped up in the bed with pillows everywhere so that I could breathe properly.”
After a grueling three-year battle, Ange eventually won limited help from the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) for treatment costs and aids like a wheelchair—though she emphasises it’s far from adequate, arriving late as she begins to regain some mobility. During her claim, she explains fraudulent attempts by ACC specialists to manipulate her medical records.
According to a proactive release from ACC of Covid-19 vaccine related treatment injury claims, between 18 February 2021 and 21 July 2025, they received 4,442 claims, they have investigated and accepted 1,769 of these claims. They have paid out $14,948,677 on these accepted claims. To date seven claims have been accepted by ACC related to a fatal injury.
Now living day-to-day on a sickness benefit, Ange speaks out to raise awareness and support others who suffer in silence, as she calls for a proper investigation and compensation for the injured who were coerced into vaccination during the mandates.
“We were told we’re gonna lose our jobs if we don’t— your kids, your grandmother are going to die. Like all the rhetoric that was coming in from everywhere. I remember standing in the chemist and ‘get your vaccine, get your vaccine.’ Then in the supermarket, ‘get your vaccine,’ like it was everywhere.”
Ange’s courage shines through: “It’s really hard when you get to this point and you realize that there isn’t any help out there and no one’s coming to save you. No one’s going to fix this. And all you can do is just keep talking and keep speaking up and telling your story.”
Her experience is similar to many thousands of New Zealanders. Official figures from Medsafe’s Suspected Medicine Adverse Reaction Search (SMARS) database, drawn from the national pharmacovigilance system records over 223,000 various symptoms reported by individuals, ranging from ‘Influenza Like Illness’ (over 8500), to ‘Chest Pain’ (over 1,100), to ‘Stroke’ (over 240) following vaccination with the Comirnaty vaccine. SMARS is a voluntary reporting system of suspected drug adverse reactions set up by the Ministry of Health to meet the growing public demand for transparent information about medicines.
“I was born in America, and I love New Zealand, but this is something I’ve never seen and never would have thought it would happen here.”
Unfortunately, Ange has recently been admitted to hospital with further complications arising from her vaccination event. The team at The Tribute wish Ange a smooth recovery.
Watch Ange’s full 20-minute episode now on YouTube, Substack, Spotify, X and other platforms.
The Tribute plans to give voice to these Kiwis who reported severe life-altering injuries, with weekly video (16-20 min) releases every Thursday
The confessional-style series is produced by Gaylene Barnes (River of Freedom, 2023) in association with Lynda Wharton of The Health Forum NZ. Episodes will be available on the website thetribute.nz, Facebook (TheTributeNZ), X (@TheTributeNZ), Instagram (thetributenz), YouTube (@TheTributeNZ) and Spotify.
The 6-minute teaser to The Tribute is accessible on all their platforms, where they have already amassed thousands of subscribers in under three weeks, illustrating the demand for these stories from the New Zealand public.
Sounds like the poor guy who featured on stuff recently.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360922422/dont-leave-us-hundreds-clots-failing-organs-and-no-diagnosis
The woman in the video stated that she went to a ‘pop up’ chemist to get the jab. What qualifications and experience did the person doing the jabbing have? I believe whistleblower Barry Young suggested that certain ‘jabbers’ were responsible for causing injuries and deaths.
That evidence should be produced in open court.
Could it be that inexperienced ‘jabbers’ were not injecting the needle into the deltoid muscle but directly into the bloodstream?
Thankfully I had already retired to Thailand when the US released their bioweapon during the World Military Games held in Wuhan in November 2019, so wasn’t subjected to the psy-op inflicted on the NZ population by Ardern and Co.
I dunno man, honestly that stuff about whether or not the medical staff were aspirating the injections or whatever was always irritating nonsense to me. Who cares how they held the needle; probably thousands of nurses and pharmacists who’ve done it wrong over the last 100 years without causing “died suddenly” and/or bafflement.
It just feels like typical astroturfed BS, put out over the internet probably by governments and pharma to shift all blame onto those injecting the poison instead of the poison itself or the people doing everything in their power to force it on us. To me, THAT’S the real issue.
Anyone who got an immediate metallic taste should question as to whether it went straight into the blood. Many people who had problems reported this metallic taste.
FFS, of course it all goes into the blood, sooner or later. This does not matter – if something can cause serious medical problems no matter where it is injected then it is toxic. Vaccines of all types are spectacularly toxic and their administration by-passes the body’s natural defences. They are all smoke & mirrors.
That is entirely possible.
During my nursing training back in the 70’s we were taught, when giving injections, to always draw back the plunger, prior to inserting the medication, to ensure that the needle had not hit / or entered into a blood vessel. The procedure had to be redone if it was.
Thankfully, I did not need to resort to this.
I noted, when watching Covid jabs being administered, on TV, ETC, that this WAS NOT happening and I also recall reading that this cautionary practice was no longer deemed necessary. Go figure!
What support is she getting now . its overdue that the health authorities around the world admitted to this mistake so we can move forward and fix.
Exactly. This poor woman has had 100 hospital visits. To think she had to fight ACC for YEARS. What a disgrace that ACC is even fighting these poor people with OUR money. I couldn’t hate the bureaucrats more, and all the Covidians more for what they have done to good people, their lack of humility, accountability and honesty makes me sick.
Poor Ange. I am so sorry she was lied to by the government. I wish her well.
Well done on this excellent interview. Thank you Daily Telegraph NZ.
ACC corporate employees were all given exemptions from getting the “safe and effective” as well. What a coincidence!
This was not a mistake, it was deliberate.
My wife was pregnant with my son in 2021, and the obstetricians and doctors went from friendly and supportive to unhinged crackpot lunatics in just a few weeks.
The constant nagging, the chastising, the emails and “catch-ups”, the texts, the phone calls… It was downright psychopathic/stalkery.
In month 3 it was “we don’t recommend ANY vaccines to pregnant women”. By month 9 it was, “you’d better wise up and take the f*cking jab or you’re endangering this baby’s life! Is that what you want?! Do you?”
“DO YOU???!?!!”
All of it just snuffed out our faith in the entire industry permanently. I will never trust a doctor for as long as I live. There basically ARE NO doctors anymore anyway, just a bunch of highly-accredited sales reps at varying degrees of psychosis.
Love your last sentence ! Legalised drug pushers who have been taught to follow and not lead, who have been taught to comply and not question.
You need to read Vaccines Amen by Aaron Siri.
Tragic and sympathy to Ange.
Moral of the the story: Obviously whatever happens don’t believe a word the retarded/incompetent/corrupt NZ government tells you, and/or their evil crooked mates in the medical/pharmaceutical/snake-oil industry.
#obviously
Never trust the medical mafia
Get rid of all parties in the Parliament every one of them pushed this poison they have all got blood on their hands ,time for a big clean out .
If you vote globalist mainstream, you are voting for this kind of behaviour from government and worse. No bullshit claims about these mainstream parties being any different to each other, they are not and none of this defeatist crap, claiming it makes no difference how you vote, of course it does!
So you can be lazy, be apathetic and watch things get worse or stand up and refuse to let the same garbage political entities, ravage our nation over and over.
Here’s the solution,…
https://nzloyal.com/
Pffft. Better still, start infiltrating existing parties and change their course. Started happening last election, just need to get more people involved and less those sitting on the sidelines with no chance at all.
Blessings to all injured by any vaccine. They’re all toxic and it’s been covered up for years. Gas lighting us and fear are their tools of choice. The biggest baddies are those rotten politicians who daily appeared on television spreading fear and promoting genocide. They targeted the old,Pregnant women, Moari and Polynesian. They jabbed by parties,chocolate fish,ice cream and vouchers making the medical profession a joke and clowns of health. To this day theirs no justice, just hundreds of thousands spend to prove they were right. The real effects are just starting to show but aren’t related to the vax? cancer, heart and lung problems, strokes auto immune issues and yet theirs still no accountability. The day I see Jacinda Adern Chris Hipkins Ashley Bloomfield and the numerous other murderers in jail , I don’t believe New Zealander can ever move forward. I hope they reap what they sow and I hope it’s in this life time.