OPINION
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science
A group of Japanese researchers published a case study in the Journal Medicine on 2 February 2024, Fatal Arrhythmia in a Young Man After COVID-19 Vaccination: An Autopsy Report. The paper was reviewed by HART Group on 28 February, in an article New autopsy evidence from Japan: myocarditis – however mild – can result in fatal arrhythmias.
Two days after his second COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer), a 40-year-old man experienced a fatal cardiac arrhythmia. There were no preceding signs or symptoms other than a fever the day prior to his collapse. A thorough autopsy found mild myocarditis in an area of heart muscle close to the electrical conduction system, which was considered to be the cause of his fatal arrhythmia.
In their January 2024 paper Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine-induced myocarditis, Rose, Hulscher and McCullough described a “2500% increase in the absolute number of reports in the first year of the campaign when comparing historical values prior to 2021.” The risk was highest after dose 2, in males and in those aged under 30 years old. With a likely under-reporting factor of 31, the authors estimate that the 3,078 post-vaccine myocarditis cases reported to VAERS likely represent around 95,418 actual cases.
In New Zealand, and elsewhere, the coronial service is not fit for purpose in regard to ensuring that every death of unknown cause is appropriately investigated to ensure complete and accurate diagnosis. Where appropriate autopsy investigations have been conducted, vaccine related myocarditis has been found to be the cause in 38% of sudden cardiac deaths. How many of our “died suddenly” (of ‘unascertained natural causes’) cases are in fact deaths caused by “mild myocarditis” in otherwise healthy young people, experiencing mild or no symptoms and unaware that they are at increased risk of cardiac arrest?
Not every person in NZ who dies suddenly will have a post mortem. In those that do, sometimes this is an ‘external PM’ where the body is examined externally and may have a CT scan. Tissue samples from organs are not taken.
If an open post mortem is conducted, the heart may be looked at and samples taken for microscopic examination. If only a few heart tissue samples are assessed, small patches of myocarditis affecting the conducting system could presumably easily be missed.
What Can We Do?
For more information on the aetiology, epidemiology and infection vs injection arguments, see our July 2022 article Infection or Injection? Associating Myocarditis and Pericarditis with COVID-19.
Pressure must be placed on authorities to stop the vaccine rollout immediately. NZDSOS need your help. Contact your local MP and share what you know with them. Provide information from our website to local vaccination providers and ask them to stop complying.
Pressure must also be placed on the coronial service to act in the nation’s best interests by ensuring adequate investigation into every sudden and unexplained death. Contact the coronial service and ask what they are doing to protect New Zealanders.