Posted on 09/21/2026 11:47:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary of Patricia Leidl’s testimony before the Allison Inquiry (Day Three, 10 September 2026)
Patricia Leidl (age 64), a former World Health Organization communications director and researcher, testified about severe health problems she attributes to her second COVID-19 vaccine dose. She previously worked in WHO’s HIV department, for USAID, as an advisor to the UN Population Fund, and wrote the first draft of WHO’s 2002 report The State of the World’s Vaccines. In that report she had written that an effective coronavirus vaccine was unlikely because the virus mutates too quickly, and noted that vaccines typically take 7–15 years to develop.
Before vaccination she was extremely fit and active, living on Vancouver Island and regularly hiking and cycling (she had just completed a demanding 26 km hike in Strathcona Park). She was initially skeptical of the official COVID narrative, noting that properly contextualized death rates appeared similar to seasonal flu. However, she was between contracts and needed vaccination to travel for a job opportunity in Europe, so she proceeded. The first dose was uneventful. She received the second dose about five weeks later (she was prioritized due to familial high blood pressure).
Approximately one week later (around 17 June), she collapsed upon getting out of bed with a racing heart, facial/hand/foot swelling, intense whole-body neuropathic pain, a severe migraine (she is not prone to them), and extreme light sensitivity. She crawled to the phone and was taken to emergency. Doctors diagnosed POTS (which she had never heard of) and sent her home with tramadol and a heart-rate medication.
Symptoms continued and worsened over repeated emergency visits. She was repeatedly told she had “long COVID” (she did not contract COVID until two years later) or was experiencing a mental-health episode. Within two months she gained roughly 70 pounds (from about 130 to 200 lbs), describing herself as puffing up “like a cane toad.” She developed extensive, confluent boils from neck to knees that lasted about six months, leaving her a “grotesque, unrecognizable version” of herself; she could barely walk a block. An ER physician treated her with contempt and prescribed a small tube of cortisone cream.
She also experienced postmenopausal bleeding (she was 12 years past menopause) for several irregular cycles, significant permanent breast enlargement (up about three sizes), sudden right-sided hearing loss requiring a hearing aid plus tinnitus, a year-long migraine, brain fog, and bilateral Achilles tendinopathy. A women’s-health GP dismissed the bleeding and breast changes as common among her vaccine patients, saying “the train has left the station.” Leidl noted that friends reported similar reactions and that these symptoms were unknown in traditional vaccine literature.
Ongoing issues include cognitive decline (memory and mental sharpness), chronic pain, reduced mobility, and a severely restricted daily life (mostly resting, walking the dog, and limited errands). She has spent approximately $250,000 out-of-pocket on treatments not covered by basic insurance, including physiotherapy, prolotherapy, PRP, hyaluronic acid and spinal injections, hyperbaric oxygen, supplements, and care at a Vancouver pain clinic. Some improvement has occurred, but function remains limited.
She described widespread medical gaslighting, loss of friendships and professional contacts (colleagues treated her as “socially contaminated”), and career damage after publicly attributing her injuries to the vaccine (confirmed in reports to Health Canada before stricter rules). She referenced British Columbia’s Health Care and Occupations Act (operationalized around 1 April), which she said criminalizes healthcare workers for spreading what the government deems misinformation, with risks of delicensing and up to six months in jail.
Leidl said she chose to speak out despite knowing it would likely end future employment opportunities, driven by a sense of responsibility and “cussedness” against the gaslighting. She believes she represents a larger group of people whose vaccine-related problems are dismissed as long COVID or aging. She expressed deep disappointment in how fear divided families and communities and how former human-rights colleagues labeled her a “right-wing nut,” while also noting she has met some of the best people through this experience.
The hearing closed with brief additional questions and thanks for her courage and testimony.
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I certainly hope the ones my wonderful dil took were placebos! She already has enough health problems as it is.
MRNA kills and disables.
A whole new after 2020 wave of folks permanently collecting covod caused disability. Break our ss bank
Just don’t say “Population Reduction” nor
“The Great Reset” because those are just
“Tinfoil Nut-Job Conspiracy Theories!™️”
(refused the vaccine)
I call it the va666ine
Because you almost didn’t have a choice
Nor was it ever a traditional vaccine
(She was initially skeptical of the official COVID narrative)
As she should have been
“An ER physician treated her with contempt and prescribed a small tube of cortisone cream.”
I’ve been hearing a lot of this happening lately.
It happened to my mom in 2007, when she was at Death’s door. Doc said in so many words, “She’s old. Take her home to die.”
“people rushed to get injected with experimental crap that was developed in a matter of months, “
We noticed that among the elderly people in the church we attended then, especially the women. They were quite smug, boasting that they were protected. (They still got Covid, and some died.)
An interesting, not scientific, thing I noticed. Those church members rushed to get the vax. The people in the church we attend now mostly were against it. Just a few miles from each other, but two totally different perspectives.
“It failed to ever produce as hoped”
So Fauci rubbed his hands together Snidely Whiplash style, and said, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade or a bioweapon”.
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
~ George Orwell, "1984"
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