A nurse who was struck down with a rare neurological condition that left her unable to use her limbs while taking part in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial was denied access to compensation because she was not disabled enough. The Telegraph has the story.
Marie-Claire Hoyle volunteered to get the vaccine in 2020, but two weeks after receiving her second dose she developed transverse myelitis, a paralysing inflammation of the spinal cord that left her in agonising pain and unable to use her limbs fully.
Her condition was so alarming that it led to a temporary worldwide shutdown of the vaccine trial while scientists evaluated the situation and assessed the severity of her symptoms.
But because her condition had improved over time and she has since regained most of her lost function, the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) ruled that she did not meet the qualifying threshold of being 60% disabled.
Hoyle is calling for reform of the state compensation system for people left injured by the jab.
She said that the initial effect of the transverse myelitis was severe.
Hoyle said: “I lost the ability to use my hands, I couldn’t hold a pen, I couldn’t hold a toothbrush. I was completely numb from my collarbone down to my thigh level because the signals from my spine and brain had been damaged.
“I’ve had an MRI since and there is still damage in my spinal cord, which will never heal. I have really poor grip in my fingertips, so I constantly drop things. I still have nerve pain down the left side of my arm and numbness across my central chest and that will never resolve.”
The Government is preparing to respond to recommendations – including calls for reform of the payment scheme – published last April by Baroness Hallett’s independent COVID-19 Inquiry.
The VDPS entitles eligible victims to a one-off payment of £120,000 if they can prove that their injuries were as a result of the vaccine and that they meet the stated level of disability. Lady Hallett wants the payment to be scaled so that those with less debilitating effects can also be compensated.
Hoyle, 44, who is a qualified advanced nurse practitioner and works as NHS England’s network manager for high-consequence infectious diseases, said that when she applied to the VDPS, she was refused.
She said: “They acknowledged that the vaccine caused my transverse myelitis, based on the evidence I supplied with all my medical records, and at the time I was seriously harmed on a value of up to 60%.
“However, they said: ‘You aren’t now, so you don’t need the payment.’
“And I understand that, but there needs to be a change in that because I do still have some pain, some weakness in my hand.
“Instead of it just being that you have to be 60% disabled at a minimum, for life, it should be more modern in terms of what’s justifiable to the person and what they have now. And it should be a scaleable payment, as opposed to a cut-off.”
Worth reading in full.
The bigger story here is surely that the AstraZeneca trial was not ended and the jab withdrawn when this occurred – we can only wonder at what strings were being pulled behind the scenes to keep the show on the road.
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I’m at a loss to understand the motive of someone volunteering to test a substance that’s been developed in a short time, has no accredited long-term effects that can be warned about, and will (allegedly) protect against a risk that is very low for her age cohort.
Never understood the desire to add an unknown vaccine risk to a fairly-well known infection risk. Perhaps I’m just too overcautious?
She was a nurse. They were subsequently threatened with redundancy if they didn’t take the Vax.
If the state is going to lie, threaten, and intimidate people into being injected – the very least it can do is provide some compensation. Saying ‘you’re not too bad now love’ over 5 years later is gaslighting. As well as the current impact, what about the compensation for the 5 years of more severe suffering.
Plenty of people need to go to jail for what was done – but they all got lucrative new jobs. The establishment loves an obedient liar. The lesson is never trust anyone in ‘authority’. When they come to your door and say ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help you’ – run like the wind.
Despite her experience she had her youngest son vaccinated against Covid-19 in 2021 because she is a supporter of vaccination. GB News.
Sadly, vaccination doesn’t hold her in equal regard.
This is the most shocking thing in the story. He wasn’t at any risk of serious illness if he caught Covid (and he could catch it anyway despite ‘vaccination’). She’s a nurse, and knowing that there are always risks to medical interventions, why would she do that when the benefit/risk ratio is clearly stacked against the so called vaccine?
But the whole aim of the system (as in Canada in the US) is to avoid compensating anyone. The manufacturers are given immunity, and governments set up compensation schemes that exclude most people and take forever to pay out.
This is, of course, because the vaccines are so safe and effective that nobody ever deserves compensation.
Yep, and the very worst thing is, because of the denial, the adverse effects don’t get scientifically studied to find the cause and modify future vaccines. The collateral damage is fine, it is only your life, not theirs.