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NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant has defended the Covid vaccine after a fellow doctor revealed that she and her wife became seriously ill after receiving a vaccine from Pfizer.
Dr Kerryn Phelps, former president of the Australian Medical Association, said regulators of the medical profession had censored any public comments that raised questions about the safety of Covid injections.
According to Dr. Phelps, his wife, Jackie Stricker-Phelps, “suffered a severe neurological reaction to her first Pfizer vaccine within minutes.”
Dr. Phelps said her partner’s symptoms included burning of the face and gums, an itching sensation, and numbness in the hands and feet, which were also noted by a doctor and nurse.
2GB presenter John Stanley asked Dr. Chant about Dr. Phelps’ vaccine injury on Wednesday morning.
Dr Chant said she would personally investigate Dr Phelps’s vaccine injuries, but still defended the Covid vaccine as the safest way to protect Australians from contracting Covid-19.
“Vaccines of all types can be associated with side effects, but in general, being vaccinated is the safest and best,” said Dr. Chant.
“I’ll follow up with Dr. Phelps, obviously the TGA is the body that looks into these types of things, but it’s important to know that the community is confident that we take these things very seriously,” he said.
“It’s also important to know that many vaccines have been administered internationally, so we can also use the data that has been collected internationally to inform the risks and benefits of vaccination.”
Dr. Kerry Chant came out in defense of the Covid vaccine after her medical colleague, Dr. Kerryn Phelps, revealed that she and her wife (pictured in September 2019) had suffered from side effects.
Dr. Phelps made the disclosure about her vaccine injuries in a presentation to a Senate Long Covid inquiry, which is looking into the long-term effects of the virus.
“I’m still seeing the devastating effects a year and a half later with the addition of fatigue and additional neurological symptoms, including nerve pain, impaired sense of smell, visual disturbances, and musculoskeletal inflammation,” stated Dr. Phelps.
The diagnosis and causality have been confirmed by several specialists who have told me they have seen ‘many patients in a similar situation’.
Dr. Phelps also revealed that she, too, was diagnosed with a vaccine injury due to a second dose of Pfizer in July 2021.
He said that after a series of tests, his specialist colleagues confirmed the “diagnosis and causality”.
Dr. Chant (pictured in April) told 2GB radio that she would personally investigate the vaccine injuries that Dr. Phelps and her wife, Jackie Stricker-Phelps, claim to have experienced.
“In my case, the injury resulted in dysautonomia with intermittent fever and cardiovascular implications including shortness of breath, inappropriate sinus tachycardia, and blood pressure fluctuations,” he said.
Dr. Phelps said she reported the reactions to the agency that oversees vaccine safety, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), but they never followed up.
She said other doctors have also “experienced a serious and persistent adverse event” but that “vaccine injury is a topic few in the medical profession have wanted to talk about.”
“Medical profession regulators have censored public discussion of post-immunization adverse events, with threats to doctors not to make public statements about anything that ‘could undermine the government’s vaccine rollout’ or risk suspension. or loss of your record,” he wrote.
Dr. Phelps has previously been a vaccine advocate.
“There’s definitely a very significant reduction in severe acute illness and mortality rates if you’ve had three or four vaccinations,” he wrote in July.
He has also been outspoken during the pandemic about the importance of avoiding the virus.
In August, he wrote an article titled “Abandoning COVID Safety Measures Is Just a Bad Idea” and has consistently warned about the long run of Covid resulting in “even mild” infections.
In lieu of the doctor’s claims about her and her partner’s experiences, vaccine safety experts have reiterated that most reported side effects have been mild.
Of the 64.4 million doses of covid vaccines administered in Australia, only 137,210 adverse events to TGA were reported (pictured, a nurse administers a vaccine in March 2021)
Of the 64.4 million doses of the Covid vaccine administered in Australia, only 137,210 adverse events have been reported to the TGA.
Most of the patients experienced mild symptoms such as fever, headache, and arm pain that did not require medical attention, or were even caused by the puncture.
The TGA has verified seven medical conditions that could have been caused by the vaccine, including an anaphylactic reaction, myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.
Adverse reactions to the vaccine are rare, occurring in approximately every 2 out of 1,000 injections.
Reported side effects of the Covid vaccine will be studied by experts for years to come as doctors, including Dr. Phelps, call for more research into its impact.