“In the very rare occasions where myocarditis occurs as a result of the vaccine, it is most commonly mild and generally resolves without treatment.”
– Jefferson County Public Health
“The blood test for heart injury with the vaccine myocarditis elevations is ten to a hundred-fold HIGHER than the troponin we see with natural infection. Vaccine induced myocarditis is a big deal…”
– Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough
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Which statement above is true? How prevalent and how serious is myocarditis (heart inflammation) caused by mRNA injections? What poses a greater risk to your heart—the virus or the shot?
Following our publication of the story of a 27-year-old Port Townsend woman who suffered two heart attacks in the week following her second Pfizer injection, leaving her with acute myopericarditis, Jim Scarantino posed this question on Jefferson County Public Health’s (JCPH) Facebook page:
“What is the Department’s and Public Health Officer’s response to this report of a very severe, very tragic adverse reaction to the Pfizer vaccine? This happened here in Jefferson County. I am not pushing an anti-vax agenda. I have been vaccinated. But this is a true case and deserves a response from officials requiring people to run this sort of risk.”
As discussed in other Free Press articles—and in readers’ comments below them—health institutions, global to local, which the public has long relied upon to protect us are now in lockstep with Big Pharma’s propaganda designed to force experimental injections into every man, woman, and child on earth. The narrative, at all costs, is to keep people terrified by overstating the danger from Covid infections while downplaying risks from the shots.
Our own health department demonstrates this strategy perfectly in its response to Scarantino, a response riddled with deflection, denial and disinformation.
“Because of rules protecting private health information, we at Jefferson County Public Health cannot speak to the veracity of individual reports of possible vaccine associated outcomes for any individual patient. We can confirm that in the entirety of our vaccination effort, there has been one reported case of myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccination in Jefferson County. There have been no cases of long term disability or death associated with a COVID-19 vaccination in our county. 48,600 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered in Jefferson County.
Myocarditis is a very rare possible side effect of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, occurring at a rate of approximately 40 cases/1 million doses delivered. Myocarditis is 11 times more likely to occur as a result of COVID-19 infection than after a vaccine, occurring at a rate of 450 cases/1 million diagnosed infections. In the very rare occasions where myocarditis occurs as a result of a vaccine, it is most commonly mild and generally resolves without any treatment. This stands in stark contrast to the myocarditis caused by the COVID-19 virus, which frequently leads to long term disability and even death. Jefferson County Public Health continues to work closely with our local healthcare partners to monitor the vaccine effort and assure the safety and effectiveness of all vaccinations delivered in Jefferson County. Read more about COVID-19 and myocarditis here: https://www.cdc.gov/…/vaccines/safety/myocarditis.html”
Let’s take a look at these statements
JCPH: There has been one reported case of myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccination in Jefferson County.
FACT: Not an overt falsehood, this is lying by omission. There is only one reported case of myocarditis here because these injuries are not being reported. Like all agencies under CDC auspices, Jefferson County Public Health’s mission is to promote the safe and effective mantra. Acknowledging damage from these shots undermines that mission. Was Laura’s recent case the one that was reported, or was it another? We are aware of multiple heart issues that were never reported, usually denied to be related to the shots. We know that the acute—not mild—myocarditis diagnosed following Laura’s heart attacks was not reported to VAERS by either Jefferson Healthcare or by the second hospital that she was sent to. Both medical facilities, in violation of CDC requirements, acknowledged her heart damage was caused by the shot but told Laura SHE could report it if she wanted to.
JCPH: There have been no cases of long-term disability or death associated with a COVID-19 vaccination in our county.
FACT: Like injury reports, county deaths following the shots are being covered up, denied, and/or re-labeled. Earlier Free Press articles describe in detail one of these vaccine-induced deaths. A woman with no kidney issues before the Pfizer vax sent her on a death spiral, was labeled on her death certificate by a Jefferson Healthcare doctor as having died of renal failure. In another death following the vax that I was alerted to, “A med provider who lost a patient from injection, was dictated the response required to make.” [See “Death by Injection?” and “The Truth That Must Not Be Spoken.”] The majority of county deaths with COVID-19 have also been deaths with vaccination, at least one a “profoundly immunosuppressed” woman falling ill less than a week after being given an “ineffective” second vaccine.
JCPH: Myocarditis is a very rare possible side effect of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines occurring at a rate of approximately 40 cases/1 million doses. Myocarditis is 11 times more likely to occur as a result of COVID-19 infection than after a vaccine.
FACT: These numbers use data from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), acknowledged by a Harvard study to capture less than 1% of actual adverse reactions. Will we ever know what percentage of actual adverse events have been reported by our health department? 1%? 5%? 10%? As discussed above, none of the vaccine-induced deaths or heart injuries we are aware of were reported to VAERS by local health personnel. Our own hospital’s refusal to report adverse events exemplifies the reality of extreme under-reporting.
Numbers aside, how dangerous is heart injury from the vaccine? The health department would have you believe that it is the natural Covid infection you should fear, not the shots. Vaccine-induced myocarditis is “mild”, they say.
JCPH: In the very rare occasions where myocarditis occurs as a result of the vaccine, it is most commonly mild and generally resolves without treatment. This stands in stark contrast to the myocarditis caused by the COVID-19 virus, which frequently leads to long-tern disability and even death.
FACT: This statement goes beyond a misstatement, cover-up or just plain denial of reality. It is a total Orwellian inversion of the truth. Top cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, who has been seeing heart patients throughout this crisis, says there is indeed a stark contrast and it’s just the opposite of JCPH’s claim: damage from vaccine-induced myocarditis is often severe, while that from the virus is generally “inconsequential”:
Dr. Peter McCullough Explains How Myocarditis Differs When Caused by Natural Infection vs Vaccine.
Click image above for 1-minute video.
“The myocarditis that occurs with the natural infection is very different than the myocarditis we’re seeing from the vaccines. The myocarditis from Covid-19 is mild, is inconsequential, and is largely a troponin elevation.
“I don’t want anyone thinking that the myocarditis we’re seeing from the natural infections is anything like what we’re seeing from the vaccines. There are pre-clinical studies suggesting that the lipid nanoparticles [in the vaccines] actually go right into the heart. The heart expresses the spike protein, the body attacks the heart. There are dramatic EKG changes, the troponin—the blood test for heart injury—with the vaccine myocarditis elevations is ten to a hundred-fold HIGHER than the troponin we see with natural infection. It’s a totally different syndrome.
“When the kids get myocarditis after the vaccine, 90% have to be hospitalized. They have dramatic EKG changes, chest pain, early heart failure. They need echocardiograms, medications to prevent heart failure. Vaccine induced myocarditis is a big deal, and in children it is way more serious and more prominent than a post-Covid myocarditis.” (video clip above)
Vaccine-caused myocarditis certainly isn’t mild for young Laura, who now has an 80-year-old heart courtesy of Pfizer injections she was pressured to take against her better judgment. Jefferson County Public Health makes sweeping misstatements based on the false pharma/CDC narrative, with no transparency about actual local data.
As Dr. McCullough points out (and as described in my previous article), the vaccine has now been shown to travel directly to the heart where the billions of spike proteins it generates attack heart tissue. We invite any county residents who have myocarditis resulting from a Covid-19 infection to share their story. We would be most interested in comparing their heart damage following a bout with the virus to what Laura and others in Jefferson County have suffered from the shots.
My previous article closed with the recent report presented at the American Heart Association’s annual conference, MRNA COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning. This robust study showed that risk of heart attacks and other severe coronary heart problems more than doubled within the months after Pfizer and Moderna vaccination. British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra discusses this report and describes additional research confirming the same findings:
Report reveals increase in risk of heart attack following the mRNA COVID vaccine
Click image above for interview with UK cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra
“A few days ago, after this was published, somebody from a very prestigious British institution, a cardiology department researcher, contacted me to say that researchers in this department had found something similar, within the coronary arteries, linked to the vaccine—inflammation from imaging studies around the coronary arteries. They had a meeting and these researchers at the moment have decided that they’re not going to publish their findings because they are concerned about losing research money from the drug industry. This person was very upset about it….
“I have a lot of interaction with the cardiology community across the UK and anecdotally I have been getting told by my colleagues that they are seeing younger and younger people coming in with heart attacks.”
The more than 8,000 comments following Malhotra’s 4-minute interview affirm his perspective. How long will YouTube allow this video and its comments to be posted? These are the voices being censored by social media and mainstream news:
- A good friend of mine here in Australia 🇦🇺 has told me practically the same information. She also works in a hospital over here for 30 years. It’s affecting our young high school students. A cluster in South Australia, about 15 students from one school.
- From the moment I had the vaccine I have felt unwell with cardiac type symptoms. I am 30
- Four days after the second shot, my husband died of a sudden heart attack. He was 59.
- My sister has a leaky valve in her heart. Symptoms started as soon as she had her first vaccine and was first diagnosed with an inflamed heart. The doctor says it’s not related and she would of had it for years. She’s 45. Ok doctor 👌🏻
- The same things happened to heart. I used to be healthy sportsman. The problems started after second dose of vax. Heart arrhythmia
- Since I got this effing shot I have had palpations and an increase in my resting heart rate and a dramatic decrease in my exercise tolerance. WTF. Now this!!
- 10 times more cardiac arrest in the last 10 months than the last 10 years according to some A+E staff.
- Four weeks ago I had my first Pfizer vaccine, 6 days later I had a stroke. Previously in good health with no underlying health conditions.
- I’m a very fit late 40s male. Since my double Pfizer jab I’ve had issues with breathing and chest pains. Biggest regret of my life was taking this vaccine.
- After the first dose: My 40 year old friend had a heart attack and was resuscitated, my neighbour has now blood clots in the brain, my father went into anaphylaxis, another friend has severe palpitations, hypertension and now is being monitored by a cardiologist …I’m just saying, all fit and healthy
Obfuscation is the new standard of care
In response to our health department’s Facebook statements, Jim Scarantino posted this comment:
“Thank you for answering. It is not clear if the woman in the article is the case in your answer. Either way, the permanent damage she has suffered probably far outweighs the minimal risk she faced of a severe COVID infection that would produce the same heart damage. Somebody in her age group and as healthy as she was, emphasize was, never really faced much risk with COVID. At least recognize her sacrifice and loss, which was forced upon her by government coercion. What does she get out of this other than a lifetime, a shortened lifetime, of regret and poor health?”
Their response? Continue to avoid the hard questions, just reiterate misleading data to divert the focus. So Scarantino tried a third time to get a straight answer about Laura’s devastating heart injuries:
“At least acknowledge that forcing people to get vaccinated could result in serious, permanent harm to some. That woman’s injuries are not insignificant, and far worse than the COVID symptoms suffered by most people who were infected, particularly young people.”
JCPH’s response was yet another “clarification” that didn’t address the main issue he raised, completely ignoring concerns about the significant harm to some, “particularly young people,” for no benefit.
In the same Facebook thread, county resident Lea Falkenhagen quoted the conclusion of the report cited above, warning that the mRNA vaccines “dramatically increase inflammation… of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.” In light of all the heart risk being documented, she asked some questions we deserve answers to:
“I am curious how many heart attacks have occurred in Jefferson County since last spring and how many were post vaccination? Who is tracking this information and is it being reported to the public? If not, why? Are people getting handed this info before choosing to be vaccinated? If not, why? Are people with heart conditions being referred to their cardiologists before JCPH recommends they get a jab? If not, why?”
None of these questions have been answered.
How is our health department serving its public? Officials discount tragic local evidence of an experiment gone horribly wrong, refuse to acknowledge the severity of cardiac damage from these shots, and parrot the broken record that Covid vaccines are safe and effective when it is increasingly obvious that neither assertion is true.
Dr. Malhotra joins fellow cardiologist Dr. McCullough and the many thousands of other doctors and scientists worldwide warning about this dangerous push to force these shots on people around the globe.
“I think now it’s high time that policy makers around the world put an end to the mandates—because I think if this signal is strong, and if it’s correct, then history will not be on their side and the public will not forgive them for it.”
How many Lauras will it take before Jefferson County Public Health, Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry, our Board of Health, and our elected Board of County Commissioners heed this warning?
Arriving in Port Townsend in 1975 in Sherpa, her Ford van, Ana Wolpin has watched a sweetly funky, diverse and tolerant community increasingly gentrify, polarize and lose its soul. After almost half a century engaged in local business, city politics, county organizations and community projects, she joined with fellow editors to revive the Free Press and bear witness to extraordinary times. For a short sketch of Ana’s history in Jefferson County, see “About the Free Press.”
Our health officials are either incredibly stupid or they are incredibly corrupt. What else could it possibly be? I have studied Covid for more than 1000 hours, and aside from general science and medicine background, I am not a virologist. But, it is quite clear that the vaccines offer only transient protection, at best, they neither stop infection nor stop its contagion, yet they carry serious risks. Why the zeal to FORCE everyone to comply? Why ignore natural immunity? WHY SUPPRESS INEXPENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE+ZINC AND IVERMECTIN, which would end the pandemic in a month? Either our health officials are as stupid as turnips, or they are complicit in the corruption. Either way, WE, THE PEOPLE, must resist. MASSIVE disobedience is necessary!
It has been my observation that most government bureaucrats from Dr. Fauci to our local Dr. Berry give opinions about vaccines couched as “science” but very rarely provide double blind studies that substantiate their opinions. To my chagrin, most reporters will never ask these these government authorities for empirical proof. Why is this? Pick up the Peninsula Daily News or the P.T. Leader and we will rarely see Dr. Berry’s opinions being substantiated by references to peer reviewed studies. May it be mandates, refuting our official governments VAERS reports, or as this wonderful article by Ana points out, dismissing the claim of heart damage from the vaccine as “very rare and reversible.” Dr. Berry is never asked to give references to studies that prove her points. In this article, Ana Wolpin is giving us facts, whereas, our officials just give us opinions.
This means that the public must obey or accept opinions based only on the title preceding an official’s name or on their position of status. Is it thorough reporting or just printed propaganda when a reporter fails to ask an official to reference their opinion with peer reviewed studies? Should not the burden of proof rest firmly on our paid representatives’ shoulders to prove with facts a mandate before implementation, especially when those mandates restrict our freedom? Should we as adult citizens be treated like children that blindly follow or as respected and learned adults who need proof before being restricted or accepting an experimental GMO? Reporters nationally and locally have not held our governments to the scrutiny we as citizens deserve, especially when they promote the government narrative rather than question it.
Everything that the government has told about this virus, the lock-downs, herd immunity, natural immunity and vaccines has changed almost daily over the last 2 years. As each mandate or proclamation changes, so does the restrictions on our freedom and the never ending divisive blame. We have never had public televised debates from doctors with opposing views, so that citizens could hear different points of view. We have never been allowed to publicly and officially voice what we are willing to do to protect the most vulnerable. We have only been allowed to hear a daily “crisis du jour” about this virus and a censorship of any scientific study that is not obedient to the official government narrative. The door continues to close to our basic human freedoms and the only solution must come from us, not them. We will never find a solution to our social problems from those causing the problem.
Thank you Ana and Jim for following up with JCPH.
One thing that is clear to me is that the Public Health bureaucracy has lost touch with reality. They are recommending and mandating things that have never been done before in all of human history. And they are doing these things with no acknowledgement of the harms their actions are causing. Depressions and suicides from the lockdowns, stealing our children’s education by suspending education, social and educational harm from masking children in schools, trauma of elderly seniors dying alone, the enormous physical harm done by vaccine “adverse events”, and the enormous mental harm done by telling those injured by vaccines that they must be imagining their ailments.
On and on it goes.
At some point and at some level the individuals in the public health bureaucracy (and politicians who use them to gain power) must realize the harm their policies have caused. But I think most will not let that realization surface and become an admission, because it would be a terrible and awful admission. So it is suppressed. It is suppressed with simpleminded tropes like “Safe and Effective” and “Flatten the curve”, and “Stop the Spread”. These tropes are used to paper over the gaping holes in the walls of lies in order to keep out the cold facts of reality.
It is suppressed both in their own mind, and in the public debate. It is suppressed using every means possible. The only question is: how far will they go? Recent events in Austria and Australia are not a good sign. They have realized that if everyone is vaccinated then there is no control group. So that has become their goal.
I see no use in debating with the public health bureaucracy and the millions of ordinary citizens they have captured under their spell. The people around the world who are advocating these things that have never been done in human history, have bought the ticket for those of us who just wanted to go on as before. They’ve bought the ticket. We’re on the ride now with no way to get off and no way to know where it will go. Let’s hope we all survive the ride.
I’m a 74 year old Clallam County survivor of the Covid-19 virus. The first 7-10 days, I just thought I had the flu, until the pneumonia showed its ugly face. At that point, my condition changed pretty quickly, although I never ran a fever. I ended up with an early morning ambulance ride to OMC hospital, where I received outstanding care. I responded quickly to medicinal treatment and was home exactly one week later. At my follow-up with my Primary Care physician, I was told I’d experienced a “Level 2 Myocardial Infarction”, which he told me was something just shy of a full-on heart attack. The stress of the coughing and fighting the virus had put stress on my heart, and while my doctor will monitor me occasionally, it’s not something he said I should be overly worried about. It’s taken about 4 months now to get back to what is my “normal”, as I have advanced osteoporosis as well as being “of a certain age”. I count myself very blessed for my swift recovery from the virus itself and will say that I have more confidence in my natural immune system than I even had before. I am not “anti-vax” – I’ve had many vaccinations throughout my lifetime – but I have a very strong “wait and see” attitude about these current vaccinations being so fiercely pushed throughout the world. Why the outright lies we hear from Fauci, NIH, WHO and CDC?? Why the cover-ups of truth and lack of transparency??? One really has to ask themselves, “what is the REAL purpose behind this global push to vaccinate the world with a “vaccine” already proven to NOT protect fully???” Imagine what would have happened if those receiving the Polio vaccine could still have carried that disease to others, or were “sort of” reinfected with polio despite their vaccinations???? Or the Smallpox vaccine?? Can you “sort of” get a lesser version of the disease?? Or did those actual vaccines do their job, despite having to wait years for a successful result from the laboratory?? Asking for a friend.
Thank you, JA, for sharing your personal experience with the Covid virus and what was identified as a Level-2 Myocardial Infarction when you were hospitalized. At 74, that you do not suffer from long-term heart damage corroborates what Dr. McCullough describes.
J.A. Wipple, I personally think the reason for all the cover ups is it’s a plot to reduce the world’s population. We are fast becoming to a point where our life styles have polluted the planet to a point of being a major problem for survival. Would you admit to being a supporter of this when you’re supposed to save lives, not take them? Think about it, I could be right.
I watched a video about why they might overturn Roe vs Wade, because now it’s not your body your choice. Once its overturned then they will mandate this. I’m against this and I hope we stand up together as time is running out…
I honestly believe many people are trapped in this weird cognitive dissonance loop, where they cannot and will not listen to anything that suggests this vaxx might be harmful. As much as I empathize, the truth still matters. It is absolutely maddening to have the so called professionals and experts deny the reality right in front of us. It’s crazy making, it’s a lie, it creates even more distrust.
Anyone reading this article should watch this short video. It explains who is behind Covid and why. Our medical professionals are either stupid as turnips and blindly obeying the LYING CDC, or the are complicit in the corruption– there are no other alternatives. https://drcharlieward.com/dr-fauci-the-truth-exposed-on-film-must-be-shared/
This from the Open VAERS website showing the abnormally high incidence of myo/pericarditis cases that are occurring in the very young. And as you have pointed out in the article, this is just a mere shadow of the actual numbers, as many physicians are not reporting any of the adverse events.
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/myo-pericarditis
291 Athlete Cardiac Arrests, Serious Issues, 167 Dead, After COVID Shot
Here is a non-exhaustive and continuously growing list of young athletes who had major medical issues in 2021 after receiving one or more COVID shots. Initially, many of these were not reported. We know that many people were told not to tell anyone about their adverse reactions and the media was not reporting them. They started happening after the first COVID vaccinations. The mainstream media still are not reporting most, but sports news cannot ignore the fact that soccer players and other stars collapse in the middle of a game due to a heart attack. Many of those die – about 50%.
https://goodsciencing.com/covid/71-athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-26-die-after-covid-shot/
This is so, so frustrating. Why can’t our health professionals admit their inconsistencies? This is an educated community and I’m happy to see concerned citizens holding the pro-vax crowd in check. If we can figure it out through simple internet research, Public Health and their doctors should be two steps ahead of us.
I hope you’re healing, Laura. All my best to you.
Jonathan Lovett, they won’t admit it because if they admitted that hydroxchloroquine+zinc or Ivermectin cures the disease, they have to end the emergencies– yes, the same emergencies that are funneling $BILLIONS to Big Pharma and the healthcare industry, and are enabling governors to ignore our Constitution. That’s why. They are ALL making money hand over fist.
“Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna are projected to generate combined sales of $93.2 billion in 2022 nearly twice the amount they’re expected to rake in this year, said Airfinity, a health data analytics group.
Airfinity put total market sales for COVID vaccines in 2022 at $124 billion, according to the Financial Times.
Pfizer vaccine sales are predicted to reach $54.5 billion in 2022, and Moderna’s will hit $38.7 billion.
“The numbers are unprecedented,” Rasmus Beck Hansen, CEO of Airfinity, told the Financial Times.
Sales of the mRNA shots will continue to rise in 2022 due to boosters and countries stockpiling to ward off variants, Airfinity said.”