Posted on 06/23/2021 9:08:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Laura Mallozzi, whose 18-year-old son developed myocarditis two days after his second Pfizer vaccine, said she would never have connected the dots between the vaccine and her son’s symptoms if she hadn’t read about the condition in The Defender.
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Laura Mallozzi’s 18-year-old son, David, was hospitalized with myocarditis on June 10 — two days after his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.
According to Mallozzi, David, from Indiana, felt pressured at work by his employer and co-workers to get vaccinated.
“They were uncomfortable that he wasn’t vaccinated,” she said. “So he got the COVID vaccine without telling me.”
Mallozzi’s other son, now 16, had an adverse reaction to his measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine when he was younger, and has not been vaccinated since.
After David’s first Pfizer dose on May 18, he experienced a sore arm but was otherwise fine, and told his mom he got the vaccine.
The day after his second dose, on June 8, David experienced a headache, nausea and reduced appetite, followed by fever and chills in the evening. He soon developed intense sharp pains on the right side of his body toward the middle of his back, Mallozzi said.
“The next day [June 10], he was sleepy the whole day. He took several naps and went to bed at 7 p.m. with a 104-degree temperature,” Mallozzi said.
David woke his mother at 4 a.m. the next morning because he was having intense heart pain and difficulty breathing. In an email to The Defender, Mallozzi said she wouldn’t have realized what was happening to her son if it weren’t for an article, “Pfizer Vaccine ‘Probably’ Linked to Heart Inflammation, Israeli Panel of Experts Concludes,” she read in The Defender newsletter.
“I shudder to think I might have sent him back to bed with an Advil and some Vicks VapoRub because I never would have guessed that an apparently healthy 18-year-old would be experiencing a serious heart injury from a vaccine,” she said.
Mallozzi took David to the emergency room and told the doctor her son was experiencing an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine. Although hospital workers took her son’s information, the mother and son were ignored for hours. They finally left because David needed to lie down.
David’s pain seemed to subside, but later the next day it worsened, so Mallozzi took her son to the emergency room for a second time. “This time I didn’t mention the vaccine,” she said.
Immediately they took him back, did an EKG and ran scans. The results were consistent with a heart attack. David was suffering from severe heart damage.
“They said my son had profuse heart damage, admitted him overnight and did an ECHO,” Malozzi said. That’s when she informed doctors that the symptoms developed after David’s second Pfizer shot.
She also told them about the study in Israel showing a possible link between the vaccine and myocarditis.
“The doctors began connecting it to the vaccine because I was connecting it to the vaccine,” Mallozzi said. “But here’s the thing — if I hadn’t read that article I would not have connected it to the vaccine.”
Doctors told Mallozzi they’re not sure how long it will take David to recover, but with other viruses that cause myocarditis, patients have to be monitored by a cardiologist for 18 months to two years.
Mallozzi said:
“David is not allowed to exert himself. If he moves around too fast he has chest pain. My son is like an 80-year-old heart patient and he can’t walk. He cannot walk and exert himself because his heart can’t pump enough blood. It cannot keep up with any type of exercise, including walking.
“The slightest exertion will cause chest pain and he is very fatigued most of the time. The doctors said they expect him to get better over time with rest, but for the past week we haven’t noticed any improvement. Maybe it will be easier to see improvement month to month versus week to week. We will hope for that.”
Mallozzi has a message for other parents questioning whether their child should have a COVID vaccine: “Don’t do it.”
She said:
“It is not worth the risk. Who knows if it’s effective. The Pfizer vaccine is not safe. I’m really concerned about all of the college students going back to campus and these universities mandating vaccines because a young person is not going to think they’re having heart damage.”
David also regrets getting the vaccine — and his doctor told him he cannot get any more COVID vaccines.
Heart problems caused by COVID vaccines aren’t being reported to VAERS
Mallozzi, like many other parents, had a difficult time figuring out how to report her son’s vaccine injury to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS).
She said:
“I was assuming it would be reported by the ER doctor who evaluated, diagnosed and admitted my son to the hospital. The hospital receptionist was clueless. The clerk who answered the phone for the records department was clueless, but did eventually say the hospital typically doesn’t report to VAERS.”
The hospital records clerk suggested Mallozzi contact her son’s primary care doctor, but the doctor’s office staff had never heard of VAERS and found no record of David’s case having been reported.
Mallozzi said she was concerned that cases of myocarditis are being under-reported. While her son was being discharged from the hospital, his nurse commented that three other cases of myocarditis were admitted that same day.
“My son’s nurse said she was used to seeing about one patient a year with myocarditis and now, since the COVID vaccines, she is seeing a significant increase in myocarditis patients.”
Mallozzi said:
“VAERS is not working for this particular issue because emergency room physicians don’t typically report and our primary care doctor had never heard of VAERS. My son got his vaccine from Walgreens. Walgreens isn’t following up with him to ask if he has any adverse events and I would have never thought heart damage could come from the vaccine.
“It is frustrating that it is ending up being my responsibility to make sure this report is made.”
The Defender provided Mallozzi with the steps for filing a VAERS report. She was given a temporary VAERS I.D (563354) after filing her report.
In an interview with The Defender, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, a surgeon, immunologist and patient safety advocate, said, “VAERS is extremely cumbersome and doctors are not required to enter complications into VAERS. If doctors reported adverse events to VAERS, we would have a much more robust system.”
According to the latest data from VAERS, there have been 1,117 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) in all age groups reported in the U.S. following COVID vaccination between Dec.14, 2020 and June 11, 2021. Of those, 109 reports occurred in children 12-to-17-years-old with 108 attributed to Pfizer.
Latest numbers from CDC VAERS is in… Data for 12- to 17-year-olds include 7 deaths + 271 serious adverse events following COVID vaccine.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 18, 2021
So it protects you fully if everyone else is also vaccinated. But it does not protect you at all if someone else is not also vaccinated?
I’m still wondering what “90% effective” means..................
Why would someone vax a perfectly healthy 18 yo?
Sheeple.......................
The Twitter comment from JFK Jr at the bottom of this article is from the 17th. As of today’s CDC report, the myocardial events for young boys are higher than that.
Because people belive what 'central planning' tells them. They don't ask questions.
They don't reason things out or use just plain common sense.
The politburo has done a great job of brain washing the sheep.
I am not taking sides on this vaccine, but we have a very high life-expectancy [declining as we drift into 3rd world shitholedom] exactly because of things like vaccines.
Clueless?
Or feckless?
Vaccines should protect you whether anyone else is vaccinated or not, but the m-RNA vaccines are experimental and are different from other vaccines.
They force your cells to actually produce the outer spike proteins of the virus. There have been lethal side effects and many side effects that are pathological that have been under reported.
I do NOT consider them to be safe especially if you get more than one. No one knows how long the adverse effects and damage will last. I have never recommended them and I will NEVER get another one after the two I got. Also, the pathological adverse effects I have seen in my patients who did get them has been a real eye opener and they are WAY BEHIND in reporting these long lasting adverse effects: neurological, cardiac, renal, gastrointestinal.....the list goes on.
My kids work is putting pressure on emps to get vaxxes
The have a competition with the other branches to see who can get the highest percentage, they are also having a big after work catered party, beer, catered etc but only those with vax proof can attend
My kid sent out a company wide email saying alt party at his house for smart people only
Would you jump out of an airplane with a parachute that is 90% effective? Would you be happy with car brakes that are 90% effective? Would you take an airplane flight if you were assured there is only a 90% chance of arriving safely?
Going out on a limb but guessing 90% effective in reducing the human race.
There’s a certain irony that HCQ was derided by the medical community because it ‘caused heart damage’. I wonder if the unreported to VAERS vaccine effects have exceeded the percentage of heart problems with HCQ?
Must read this just posted by Berenson:
1/ THIS IS NOT OKAY.
@cdcgov just posted its myocarditis/pericarditis update. They are now admitting that post-second dose risk in people under 25 could be over 200x the background rate (and that’s not accounting for underreporting).
But the real news is even worse...
https://twitter.com/alexberenson/status/1407721367580053507?s=21
Surely this was purely coincidence. That healthy 18 old boy would've had that heart problem on that exact same date without taking the vax. He was just due for it. It just so happened he got the miracle vax two days earlier. Lots of healthy 18 year olds have this problem.
And always remember. Correlation is not causation.
(how'd I do? I'm applying as vax navigator with Pfizer to earn a little extra scratch. Times are tough)
p.s. Where all my vax nukkas be at?
What I find interesting about this story is that there was no mention of vsafe reporting system. After I got my first shot, I was instructed by the Whalgreens staff to register at the vsafe website. I registered and since then it sends me notices to respond to a series of questions about my health. Now the vsafe reporting system does have a weakness. The weakness is that you can only report certain symptoms and not others. For instance, I got a runny nose after the first shot which lasted until about two weeks after the second shot, but there was no place to record it.
:)
Maybe to prevent passing COVID to their boneheaded unvaccinated parents and grandparents?
You mean like NATURALLY IMMUNE survivors of a bout of CoVID? You bring a new perspective to a terminally stupid argument.
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