The Silence Around Covid Vaccine Injuries

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Canada has a vaccine injury support program that has paid out more than CA$11 million to claimants; Ross Wightman was among its first recipients. This week on Deconstructed, Wightman shares his story with Ryan Grim. Days after receiving an AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in 2021, Wightman began to experience pains unlike he had ever experienced before. He was eventually diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare autoimmune disorder that affects the body’s nerves. Grim and Wightman talk about his journey and support network, and whether new reporting from the New York Times about people who have experienced side effects from Covid vaccines signals a shift in serious media attention to concerns.

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0:25.0	At H.S.C. UK, you're backed by the current account switch guarantee. All right, welcome to Deconstructed. I'm Ryan Grimm, and over the past several months I've been in conversation with a lot of people from what you might call the kind of vaccine
0:45.7	injured communities or people who got the COVID vaccine at some point over the last several years and as a result of that are dealing with
0:55.4	different medical complications and a lot of those people have come together in
0:58.9	various communities to swap notes but have basically not been touched by anybody in the media.
1:05.8	Now, the New York Times recently wrote a piece about that silence and about the struggle
1:10.8	that people who are in this vaccine
1:12.8	injured community are having because so many of them
1:15.0	were kind of eager advocates of the vaccine.
1:18.4	Urged people to get it, eagerly got it themselves,
1:20.5	got it multiple times themselves,
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