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Actress Sues AstraZeneca After COVID-19 Jab Leaves Her With Brain Injuries
Epoch Times ^ | 11/14/2023 | Jessie Zhang

Posted on 11/15/2023 5:30:31 PM PST by george76

Melle Stewart was a hugely successful actress. Now she has a piece of titanium the size of her hand lodged in her skull..

An Australian theatre star and vaccination advocate is suing pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, claiming that a life-threatening stroke left her unable to work after taking the company’s vaccine.

Melle Stewart, 42, is known for her acting in both the UK and Australia, including playing the lead in the musical Mamma Mia! and Channel 7’s Home and Away.

Ms. Stewart received her first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on May 24, 2021.

Two weeks later, she began having seizures, lost her ability to speak, and lost all movement on the right-hand side of her body.

Brain surgeons diagnosed her with Vaccine-Induced Thrombocytopenic Thrombosis (VITT), a blood-clotting condition that the manufacturer and the regulators now acknowledge as a “very rare side effect” of this particular vaccine.

She underwent multiple procedures and rigorous therapy, including craniectomy, a three-hour operation to remove a portion of her skull to reduce the pressure in her brain and keep her alive.

Surgeons have since replaced that part of her skull with a titanium plate the size of her hand.

‘Linked to the Vaccine’..

From the start, the doctors "were running the hypothesis that this was linked to the vaccine," said Ms. Stewart's husband, Ben Lewis.

“It was a relatively new diagnosis. But Melle had zero medical history. She was so healthy. She looked after her body like a temple. After all that was her job. She had never even been in hospital before,” he said.

Despite this, blood tests conducted by a haematologist revealed specific markers to confirm the vaccine as the cause.

Ms. Stewart exhibited low blood platelet levels and clotting issues, necessitating five blood transfusions within four days.

The couple had never had COVID-19 to their knowledge, but the theatre industry had been shut down during the pandemic, so they believed that mass vaccination was a crucial step in bringing back audiences.

“It’s incredibly frustrating. Words are my life and it has gone now. I say the words but getting them out is an issue,” Ms. Stewart told The Telegraph about the dim prospect of a theatrical appearance. “I am grieving over it. It is hard.”

While she received £120,000 (A$230,000) from the government as an acknowledgement of the vaccine's damage, it falls short of compensating the substantial earnings lost by her and her husband, who put his work on pause to nurse his wife back to health.

Ms. Stewart has agreed to a second vaccination and wants people to know that she remains an advocate for vaccination.

“Despite the issues I’ve had due to the Astra Zeneca vaccine, I have gone on to receive multiple doses of the Pfizer vaccine and I remain a staunch advocate for vaccination,” Ms. Stewart said. However, the pair are compelled to take legal action against AstraZeneca because they believe they were misled by the government’s reassurances.

“We had an expectation this vaccine was safe to use but AstraZeneca was not safe to use in this case,” Mr. Lewis said.

“And while there are only a relatively small number of people injured or worse, it is incumbent on the government to take care of the very few people who have done the right thing for the country and society.”

Vaccine Damage Payment..

Ms. Stewart's tax-free payment from the government is part of a compensation scheme set up in 1979 to maintain public confidence in all vaccinations.

For people who have suffered life-changing injuries from having a COVID-19 vaccination, and the flow-on impacts on their loved ones, critics consider this to be woefully inadequate.

The present payout amount has not been raised since 2007.

The scheme requires that victims demonstrate they are 60 percent disabled as a result of the vaccine. Those who do not meet this threshold receive no financial assistance, without a sliding scale for those with lesser damage.

In response to the landmark legal case against the company, of which Ms. Stewart is a part, an AstraZeneca spokesperson told The Epoch Times that "patient safety is our highest priority and regulatory authorities have clear and stringent standards to ensure the safe use of all medicines, including vaccines."

"Our sympathy goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones or reported health problems," he said.

The spokesperson added that the government's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) granted full marketing approval for Vaxzevria for the UK based on the "safety profile and efficacy" of the vaccine.


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To: exDemMom

I'll take "Things that didn't age well for $400, Alex."

41 posted on 11/15/2023 8:27:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: exDemMom; ransomnote; bitt; Melian; Jane Long; fireman15; SeekAndFind

There has been no justice.

Never forget. pic.twitter.com/4ZxnlN2UZc— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) November 15, 2023


42 posted on 11/15/2023 8:33:22 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: roving

No, because you have lots of other coworkers, family members and friends who got the shot and are fine. They need to be counted statistically too.


43 posted on 11/15/2023 9:08:09 PM PST by DavidThomas
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To: tomkat

Idiocracy has become a documentary about people unable to think and reason properly.


44 posted on 11/15/2023 9:13:14 PM PST by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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To: NWFree

“It’s difficult to muster sympathy for someone this stupid’’.

The end result of protecting people from their own stupidity is to live in a world full of fools.


45 posted on 11/15/2023 9:15:29 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: grey_whiskers; fireman15; bitt; Melian; Jane Long; SecAmndmt; datura; Fractal Trader; metmom; ...

Father in Canada calls (recorded) the  Pharmacist to ask why his wife was not advised that vaccinating their child for Covid involves risk of mycarditis (his son now hospitalized with myocarditis). The pharmacists tries to dodge the  question but eventually says they don't tell the parents about the  risk of myocarditis because they don't want to scare them. Father is (naturally) enraged, saying his son has risk of death because of the pharmacist. I just listened to the first link (2 minute audio recording).

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 08/03/22 Vol.416, Q Day 1841, Ymani Cricket wrote:
from GAW

Father challenges pharmacist over vax injury to 7 year old son. The floodgates are about to open

Call is recorded.

 
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 08/03/22 Vol.416, Q Day 1841, Ymani Cricket wrote:
Followup to post 1063. This is starting to go viral. The floodgates are going to open. It begins...

On TS

Ultra Pepe Deluxe ⭐⭐⭐
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"Shocking phonecall recording with a pharmacist who administered the jab to a child now in hospital with myocarditis. Part 1."

https://twitter.com/rotor_motor13b/status/1555903993037086723?s=20


46 posted on 11/15/2023 9:38:27 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: exDemMom; grey_whiskers

Why are you on FR?

Virtually every single talking point out of your pie hole, esp.as to the cv19vx, but also as to technocracy and parental rights, is left-Democrat.


47 posted on 11/15/2023 11:39:02 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Cv19 vaccines are Phase 2 of the CCP bioweapon)
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To: george76

The sports people dying starting with Hank Aaron and the actors like Matthew Perry who promoted the killer vaccines dying. Note how long they are taking to determine his death which means a cover up as they know it was a democrat party vaccine that helped kill him.


48 posted on 11/16/2023 12:26:00 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: NWFree
“ Ms. Stewart has agreed to a second vaccination and wants people to know that she remains an advocate for vaccination”

It’s difficult to muster sympathy for someone this stupid

Perhaps she risked losing the government payout had she said otherwise?

49 posted on 11/16/2023 1:11:53 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: NWFree
“ Ms. Stewart has agreed to a second vaccination and wants people to know that she remains an advocate for vaccination”

It’s difficult to muster sympathy for someone this stupid

Perhaps she risked losing the government payout had she said otherwise?

50 posted on 11/16/2023 1:12:11 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: george76

She sues yet continues to support death shots?
case dismissed


51 posted on 11/16/2023 3:28:02 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: NWFree

“ Ms. Stewart has agreed to a second vaccination and wants people to know that she remains an advocate for vaccination”
______________________________________
Perhaps she’s suicidal and now that she messed up her life she’s hoping to expedite her demise.


52 posted on 11/16/2023 3:35:31 AM PST by iontheball
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To: grey_whiskers

Democrat logic. /spit


53 posted on 11/16/2023 4:02:51 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: george76

“Ms. Stewart has agreed to a second vaccination and wants people to know that she remains an advocate for vaccination.“

This is what we’re up against, folks. These people have displaced God In themselves and so they are god and they are never wrong. They will stick to the crap in their own head to death itself.


54 posted on 11/16/2023 4:29:46 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: lee martell

Sadly, as we all suspect, he tells us . . . “I’m talking to an empty room”


55 posted on 11/16/2023 6:51:06 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: exDemMom
Unlike you, she actually does listen to the science.

Help us understand the “science” here. How many shots do you think are necessary to really be protected from Coronavirus? 1 shot 1 booster? 2 shots 2 boosters? 2 shots 5 boosters? Yearly boosters? Semiannual?

Are these shots better than natural immunity?
56 posted on 11/16/2023 6:53:45 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: george76

She’s suing but continues to take the shots and advocates for everyone to get shot too? Not sure how this makes a case for suing?


57 posted on 11/16/2023 7:24:29 AM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Actress Melle Stewart, playing the role of “Wudda Dummass.”


58 posted on 11/16/2023 9:24:21 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: Bikkuri; 2ndDivisionVet; 50mm; Arrowhead1952; Old Sarge; shibumi; .44 Special; 230FMJ; ...
Dangit... I HATE when I forget to ping the list 🤷🏻🙄


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59 posted on 11/16/2023 11:11:34 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Bwahaha!

Let me know if you get a reply.


60 posted on 11/16/2023 11:49:51 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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