A high-profile Australian academic made disturbing claims about the Covid vaccine shortly before she died after a long battle with illness.
Professor Gemma Carey, once director of the Center for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales, died on November 17.
Just two months earlier, in one of her last posts on
“For more than three years, I have been expected, professionally and personally, to defend a medical intervention that nearly cost me my life and caused more suffering than I thought the human body was capable of enduring or experiencing ‘, wrote Prof. Carey.
“I have personally read 1,000 case reports of people injured or killed, and 40 released under TGA FOI, including child deaths due to heart attacks,” she continued.
“I believe we are past the point where we should be using these vaccines. They do not prevent infection, the damage is significant and we have no concrete, reliable data on the frequency of that damage.
“If we don’t stop now, we will deeply regret in the future the damage we allowed to happen from this point on in the pandemic.
“So no, you will no longer publicly support me for the thing that stole years of my life.”
Australian professor Gemma Carey, a passionate advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, died after a battle with illness
Prof Carey posted about the Covid vaccine just two months before she died
Prof Carey’s family have not confirmed that the Covid vaccine had anything to do with her death. They told Daily Mail Australia only that she had died “after a long battle with illness.”
On Tuesday, Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick offered his condolences to Prof Carey’s family, claiming they were ‘suffering from a Covid vaccine injury’.
“Gemma was a strong supporter of improving the vaccine injury program,” Senator Rennick wrote.
Prof Carey suffered serious injuries when he received the Covid vaccine May 2021, after she took the AstraZeneca shot, the only one recommended at the time for people with her Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Guillain-Barre syndrome is an autoimmune disease that can cause paralysis in extreme cases.
She told newsletter Crikey that the jab left her suffering from ‘functional stroke’ symptoms.
Her grueling rehabilitation process involved having to relearn how to read, write and speak while on leave.
In January 2022, Prof Carey said she was desperately waiting for the protein-based vaccine Novavax to be approved so she could continue her course of Covid vaccines.
Prof Carey, who died on November 17, pictured with husband Ben O’Mara
She claimed the AstraZeneca jab triggered her Guillain-Barre syndrome.
“Every fine nerve fiber in my body became inflamed,” Professor Carey told the Sydney Morning Herald.
‘It was terrible. I was in acute care for a long time.”
Earlier this month, medical researcher Joshua Leisk claimed in a now-deleted post on
“In utter desperation, she reached out a few hours later for information about voluntary assisted dying,” Leisk said.
He claimed Prof Carey was ‘terrified of getting Covid’. Her family tried to live a Covid-free lifestyle.
Mr Leisk said she had previously battled a serious staph infection in the gastrointestinal tract that had developed into blood poisoning.
“It became an intense ordeal during this time and sleeping had become a challenge,” he wrote, and she sought information about voluntary assisted dying.
Prof. Carey’s last post on Instagram, dated August 25, contained a heartbreaking cry of despair
Voluntary assisted dying, also known as euthanasia, will become legal in Canberra in 2025. Daily Mail Australia does not suggest that Prof Carey used voluntary assisted dying.
ACT police confirmed the death of the Canberra-based academic is not being treated as suspicious.
She is survived by her husband Ben O’Mara and two-year-old son Gideon.
While campaigning for a fairer and broader vaccine injury compensation program, she became the target of trolls.
That led to her leaving the social media platform then known as Twitter and taking a professional leave from her job at UNSW.
“Due to the harassment that has permeated all aspects of my professional and personal life through this platform, I am taking a leave of absence,” she tweeted on September 10.
Her last post on Instagram, dated August 25, was a poetic cry of heartbreaking despair.
‘So this is it? Is this my story now?
‘The dying girl?
‘The dead girl?
‘The B**ch
‘The survivor.
‘Can I never become anything else?
‘Can I never be myself again?’
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Prof Carey has been open about her struggle with Guillain-Barre syndrome