I’ve just finished reading the article. The nurse in question did not offer diagnoses, only observations and unanswered questions based on diagnoses made by doctors in the hospital.
It doesn’t seem to be beyond the scope of a nurse (or really, any adult who can do basic math) to be able to notice when there has been a drastic and sudden increase in a certain kind or kinds of diagnoses being made in their own hospital in a certain amount of time (you know, when they read the charts).
Neither does it seem to be beyond the scope or ability of any nurse to question why there is a policy or culture in his or her hospital of refusing to acknowledge the possibility of these increases in similar diagnoses being related to some common occurrence in the community (such as mass vaccination), or of refusing to report these occurrences to VAERS ***just in case ***, as that is the purported purpose of even having the VAERS system - to recognize patterns that might indicate a problem with a medication in the general population!
There is no need to be condescending to those who work every bit as hard as the doctors or harder, or demean their ability to bring their intellect and experience to bear in analyzing unusual situations. My aunt is a nurse for decades, and has, on quite a few occasions, saved a patient’s life by noticing that the hallowed doctor has written a prescription that was either for the wrong dosage or for a medication that was contraindicated because of other medications the patient was taking that was overlooked by the doctor, and those doctors had the grace to thank her for recognizing the error before any harm was done. Disparaging nurses is not a good look, and dismissing their instincts is flat out stupid.
Actually, it isn’t beyond the scope of a lot of people who work in or with hospitals to notice a drastic increase in certain conditions.
The janitors and security officers will hear about it.
X-ray and lab technicians
Various vendors and suppliers of equipment, medicines and supplies
Records clerks
Transport staff