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I tried every way I could to convince my wife not to have more than the two initial Pfizer shots we had at the end of Jan 2021 ending in Feb 15, 2021. Forced her to sit down and watch successful early treatments in Imperial Valley CA and Honduras. To no avail. She went ahead and got 2 more shots.

Now she is suffering from bursitis and tendonitis. Extremely painful. She heard from a friend that taking boron helped so she just started taking it.

I will forward this substack to her but even thought she is extremely well read on many diverse subjects including medicine and nutrition. She is so aligned with the safe and effective narrative that she would deny that the vaccines could cause injury.

This means that when I again suggest that vaccines might be involved in her current condition, I expect to be facing a blank stare. Even extreme pain in her own body is not enough to break through the ideology of the medical monopoly.

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I was a medical student on clinical rotations during 2021 and 2022. The most memorable neurologic case I followed was a 36-year-old man who was hospitalized in February 2022 for evaluation of new onset neurologic symptoms causing significant weakness and functional impairment, such as limb weakness and balance problems as well as some sensory changes. These symptoms had been ongoing in previous months and resolved with steroids, but returned, precipitating his hospitalization. He had no personal or family medical history of neurologic or autoimmune disorders. Of note, he had received his first booster 3 weeks prior to his presentation at the hospital.

The patient had a mixture of neurologic findings localizable to different tracts, which is common with autoimmune demyelinating disorders such as MS. And his MRIs showed demyelination. However, a full autoimmune workup yielded no positive results. The neurologists following him figured that there are so many different proteins/antigens in the body and nervous system that one could develop antibodies to, that someone could have illness from antibodies towards a self antigen not included in the usual autoimmune or neoplastic panels. The patient consistently responded well to high dose steroids (which suppress the immune system) and plasmapheresis (which removes antibodies from the system), further supporting an autoimmune origin. He often asked if the Covid booster could have been related to his symptoms, and the neurologists considered it as a likely possibility in light of the otherwise negative workup. I remember clearly this kindhearted young man telling the team he had gotten the booster because he lived with his elderly mother and wanted to protect her.

Based on this reasoning, the patient was offered and agreed to start treatment with rituximab, an immunosuppressant medication. The next day, he developed respiratory failure from flash pulmonary edema, an extremely rare side effect of the medication (only documented in a few case studies). Ultimately he required intubation, developed a wide complex tachycardia with 2 separate cardiac arrests, had VA ECMO placed (an advanced life support system that essentially functions as the body's circulatory system), and was transferred to the ICU. After almost 2 weeks, the patient's family decided to transition to comfort care measures and the patient passed away.

The other student and I who had been following this patient were greatly saddened to learn of his passing. While it was not the proximal (or confirmed) cause, he became known among some of the students and residents who had followed him as "the man who was killed by the Covid vaccine". It especially saddens me when I think back to his reasoning for getting his last booster, protecting others, when the data showing that the vaccines did not prevent infection or transmission was already available months before early 2022.

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