COVID Vaccine Injury Testimonies in Ottawa

Promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing

but the truth.

Nearly 60 people were in Ottawa last week to put their

stories of severe

injury from a COVID vaccine on the public record.

People like Michael Osh.

There are good days and there are bad days still, and, uh, it's,

it's a struggle.

Before COVID, he lived out a dream walking from Toronto

to the East Coast, and a

few years later, from Toronto to the West Coast.

He's now wheelchair-bound in a long-term care facility with an idiopathic

neurological disorder his doctors say is a rare injury from his fourth

COVID shot. Jasmit Graywell was a business development manager with an

AI

company living an active lifestyle until a COVID vaccine, his

doctors say, caused functional neurological disorder.

He will never be able to walk, eat, or drink again.

The first pump on my right, uh, that has a little bag attached to it,

that's

going directly into my stomach.

Health Canada says serious vaccine injuries are extremely rare,

estimated at one in every 10,000 shots, and they promised the

injured would be cared for. As Global News has extensively reported,

that

hasn't happened. A year-long investigation found Canada's

Vaccine

Injury Support Program wasted millions of dollars on administrative costs,

while at least 3,000 injured Canadians have spent years stuck in red

tape. Only 252 people got any support, while

others with well-documented severe vaccine injuries were denied.

Conservative MP Dean Allison and an advocacy group called the COVID

Testimony

Association hosted the gathering in Ottawa last week.

There have been times where there hasn't been a dry eye

in the room.

Because if people can't tell their stories, we can't fix anything.

Those stories, though, may not be heard by those with the power

to help.

A spokesperson for the Minister of Health said in an email to Global News,

"Vaccines are safe and effective, and they save lives.

We hope all parliamentarians will work together to combat misinformation about

vaccines. We have no comment on the Allison

inquiry."

Vaccine injuries are not a political issue.

We're injured people, uh, and, uh, the

reality of it is, is that we're suffering.

I think it's time now to double down and keep raising these issues

and find ways to

raise them, raise them in the House of Commons.

Advocates vow to keep pressure on the vaccine injury program to do what's right.

Melissa Ridgen, Global News, Winnipeg.