Army Admits Link Between COVID Vaccine and Soldier’s Heart Condition
“I was experiencing severe neuropathic pain, felt like burning sensations throughout my whole body and I was having chest pains, breathing issues and a really high heart rate and dizziness. It felt like a balloon was blowing up in my chest.”
Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge is back. She’s on her own without any strings attached to biased MSM networks.
Herridge’s first report focuses on the military’s mandatory COVID vaccine, which led to at least one soldier’s heart condition.
BREAKING: Army and National Guard accused of abandoning 24-year-old soldier with “debilitating heart condition” that internal memo “linked” to COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
New military records confirm the soldier's heart injury was "In Line of Duty,” and details her account of… pic.twitter.com/nbZgbDA6v3
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) June 24, 2024
With the permission of @stancikkaroline and her advocacy group @REALUSJAG, we are exclusively publishing the Army Human Resources Command memo with redactions.
CONTEXT: Stancik who had pacemaker surgery earlier this month says she’s never had a positive test for COVID-19.
An… pic.twitter.com/2duQ5i5uIm
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) June 24, 2024
Army Specialist Karoline Stancik suffered a heart attack right after she had the Moderna vaccine. She had pacemaker surgery earlier this month.
Stancik has had to take 27 medications a day since the first heart attack.
“I was left behind and trampled,” Stancik told Herridge.
Stancik never had a heart condition before the vaccine, noting that she could run 10 miles at one time and play basketball. Now she has trouble just standing up.
The Vaccine
Stancik took the first dose of the Moderna vaccine in March 2021.
The next thing Stancik knew, she had a cough, chest pain, sinus pressure, and headaches.
The second jab happened in April. The reaction intensified.
Stancik explained: “I was experiencing severe neuropathic pain, felt like burning sensations throughout my whole body and I was having chest pains, breathing issues and a really high heart rate and dizziness. It felt like a balloon was blowing up in my chest.”
Depression
The military relieved Stancik from active duty in April 2022, leaving her without a salary and medical benefits.
The lack of money left Stancik homeless for three weeks, driving up and down the coast, living out of her car.
Stancik made her way to Florida. One day, she had a bad flare-up and blacked out.
Stancik found herself at the bottom of the stairs outside her apartment door.
A text message she sent to Sorenson said if she alone, she’d consider suicide.
“I talked about it with my cardiologist and I told her that I am just ready for this to be done, like I don’t know how much more I can take this,” Stancik explained.
Stancik continued: “I’ve been through multiple therapists. I was denied mental health care because they said until the stuff with the military gets resolved, like, we can’t help you.
Sorenson told Herridge the Defense Department “discarded [Stancik] as trash.”
Army Memo
The army admitted the link between Stancik’s heart problems and the COVID vaccine.
“Research has confirmed a link between a COVID-19 infection and a debilitating heart condition called POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, that has been diagnosed in some patients,” according to an army memo.
“POTS was also linked, to a lesser degree, to COVID-19 vaccination with an mRNA vaccine, according to a new study,” it also stated.
POTS is when “your heart and your blood pressure don’t work in accordance with each other.”
It took Stancik over 19 months to receive a response from the Defense Department.
“They’re fully responsible,” Stancik insisted. “I was neglected and the medical care that I needed to get was not happening and so the damage was more by delaying the response.”
The Costs
US JAG defends the rights of injured service members.
“Her case is representative of hundreds, possibly thousands of other vaccine injury cases, but moreover, it’s very indicative of the systemic problem of the Department of Defense abandoning injured service members. Vaccine injuries are also very political and the leadership in the Defense Department did not want to address that and still does not want to address that maybe we hurt our own people,” said US JAG veteran advocate Jeremy Sorenson.
The army memo also said that Stancik’s heart problems occurred in the line of duty.
“Service connection gets you benefits when you get out of the military and so without that I would not get any benefits for these conditions,” said Stancik.
Stancik hopes the army memo opens the doors for other soldiers who believe the vaccine injured them.
The interview with Stancik took place days before surgery for a pacemaker.
Herridge asked Sorenson what it costs for vaccine-injured services to come forward.
“The cost of coming forward for those who have been vaccine injured is probably greater than other injuries because of the political environment and the stigma around of not following the order to get a vaccine or for speaking up against the vaccine itself after getting it,” said Sorenson.
An Army spokesman told Herridge, “‘Covid vaccine injured’ is a non-specific term…and cannot be medically diagnosed.”
Our Leslie has covered the military vaccine mandate extensively for years.
The army began discharging soldiers who did not get the vaccine in 2022. At that time, 3,300 soldiers refused to get the jab.
The Marines, Air Force, and Navy had already begun discharging “active-duty troops or entry-level personnel”
From February 2022:
Last week, the Navy announced it had fired 45 sailors for refusing the vaccine. The Marine Corps has discharged 334, the US Naval Institute reported last month.
The Air Force said last month that it had fired 27 service members.
By October 2023, the military let go of 8,000 soldiers.
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All vaccines cause deaths. It’s a question of relative numbers offsetting this cost.
Immunity against lawsuits is offered to protect vaccine makers from those few lawsuits. Otherwise they couldn’t afford to make vaccines and wouldn’t.
When the Pharma companies fully inform people of the full spectrum of risks associated with their vaccine so that a patient is able to provide ‘informed consent’ then sure. When the Pharma companies don’t disclose risks they gotta come off their high horse and open up their wallet. Otherwise folks will begin to refuse any Pharma product b/c of the lack of trust.
The point is that the “admission” means nothing. They will admit it about any vaccine.
Hence the lack of trust. Safe and effective my ass
Safe and effective depends on the numbers of each. It worked on the original variant very nicely. Why they persisted in claiming it also worked on variants that it wasn’t designed for is a mystery though.
No, it didn’t.
With 20/20 hindsight we can see by the way, that the vaccine never worked against any variant including the original. It’s not a vaccine as evidenced by the fact that they had to change the meaning of the word vaccine to make it fit.
The admission means quite a bit considering the context of Covid Mania and the incessant hectoring by crazed Covid Karens who pushed for mandatory ‘jab’ whilst simultaneously declaring that the ‘jab’ was SAFE (no qualifications were offered to this) and Effective in preventing an inoculated person from contracting or transmitting Covid (no qualifications offered here either).
‘They’ will absolutely not admit jack crap until overwhelming evidence of the problems becomes so widespread in the public that they are no longer able to deny or sidestep the problems. That’s the historical pattern and is exactly what happened with the Covid jab.
In this case they made a killing in more ways than one. Having worked with Pharma, I am convinced that they are crooked to their core. What is so aggravating about this is that there were better treatments.
A theory, if they committed fraud are they now fully liable?
“Better treatments” – yes, at a dime a pill, IMO the whole point.
When the public policy on a product’s liability is “sucks to be you”, you’re better off without that product, even if an idiot like Biden declares it “””mandatory”””.
The good news is that they won’t be able to pull this shit off again in living memory.
This was only true AFTER the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 , which also established a vaccine injury compensation fund, which was supposed to substitute for traditional tort action.
In actual fact, Big Pharma told the US government they would refuse to make vaccines if they were not protected from civil action for vaccine injury.
Curiously, they did not make the same demand for protection for prescription meds, which (at that time, anyway) arguably killed many more people than vaccines.
Really, nobody else wants to get paid? Have you seen the jab-pharma financials — they’re public companies; it’s public information.
The blame here is with the President. He is the one who forced all soldiers to take the vaccine. A 24 year old girl should normally have no reason to take this vaccine, since C-19 was not that dangerous.
Now, soldiers are ordered to take all kinds of vaccines before they go into combat in particular places, and that is totally legitimate. Some do get injured. But this vaccination was totally unnecessary.
Hmm. If the lawsuits were “so few,” why did the pharmaceutical companies need immunity?
Perhaps because they knew this was a major problem? Didn’t Pfizer lock up the results of its Covid clinical trials for 75 years? Why would they do that do you imagine?
The difference is informed consent which is impossible when you don’t have something fully tested ahead of time. You can’t look at 10 years of safety data for something that has existed less than a year.
>>Didn’t Pfizer lock up the results of its Covid clinical trials for 75 years? <<
Pfizer™ requested that the court seal their data and records on the covid-19 modRNA serum for 75 years but if I recall correctly the judge refused to seal any of the documents in question.
True, there are side effects and deaths associated with every vaccine. The difference between them and the experimental gene therapy is that the Covid one was never subjected to trials before being mandated.
Journalists who are not part of woke corporate media are hopefully the wave of the future. Quite honestly ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, LaT, etc are killing the country.
We have a growing, interesting stable of investigative journalists gone independent. It’s easy to back them, from Substack, to their own branded platforms.
There’s a reason The Authoritah are going after “dis, mis, and mal-information.” The inconvenient found a megaphone, and an audience, so they have to be shut down another way. Just like the guy declaring inconvenient truths on an apple box is a park gets shut down for “public disturbance.” Then found to have mental health issues.
While I’m not denying this COULD be true you need to know how to read military letters. It is implied but not actually stated there is a link because they can’t prove it. And this letter really doesn’t put the Army on the hook for the mandate, just medical benefits due to a LoD injury that should never have been debatable. Why she was allowed to be discharged with a complete LoD is just mind boggling. But. It’s the Army so…
Looking at the dates, it doesn’t appear she was on active-duty when she was vaccinated. She started her training rotation AFTER she received her 2nd dose. Neither the attached documentation nor story really explain (with certainty) who vaccinated her. I’m presuming she was vaccinated through her Guard unit, probably on a drill weekend.
This might be be the source of the administrative confusion. If she was in fact injured before she entered active-duty, then she would likely be administratively separated rather than medically discharged. She would then have to make the case that that her National Guard unit injured her, if that’s in fact who gave her the vaccine. I believe any medical benefits would then be paid by the state rather than the fedgov (Gaurdsmen are state civil servants not federal uniformed service members, as you’re probably aware). Again, there’s some supposition here because the story is somewhat incomplete.
I assumed since they eventually granted the LoD it WAS the Guard unit that vaccinated her. But my point remains that the letter only goes so far as saying yes, she came down with a heart problem and yes, it occurred in LoD and even yes, “research” says the problem she experienced may be related to the vaccine. But it does not say what is being reported that the vaccine she received in the Guard CAUSED the heart problem. Because at this point there’s no proof. There may be eventually, but not now.
Yeah, I don’t disagree. I was really only responding to your question you posited in your last sentence.
I’m not sure what dates you’re referencing. What I read was March and April of 2021 were when she received the shots, and she was “relieved” from active duty in April 2022. That makes it look like she was on active duty when she got the shots.
In the US Army document included in a tweet by the journalist. Paragraph #3. ‘…SPC Stancik was on active-duty orders 2 June 2021 Until 27 April 2022…’ Her activation (presumably for MOS-related training purposes), didn’t begin until several months after she was vaccinated.
While there’s no way to know for certain given the documentation that’s available, it’s a logical presumption she was vaccinated pursuant to her Guard Service, probably by the Guard during two of her weekend drills.
One thing that really complicated her specific case is the fact that she’s a National Guardsman (Virginia) who was apparently a reasonably lengthy period of training pursuant to her military occupation. Had she been regular Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines and was medically discharged, at minimum, she would have had VA benefits likely for life and some chance she would have been eligible for Tricare, particularly with a LOD determination. While the VA leaves a LOT to be desired, it’s a decent alternative to going $75K+ in debt with medical bills.
This Line of Duty determination will help her moving forward, I imagine. But, her ordeal is a cautionary tale about some of the shortcomings for Guardsman injured during training periods. There are some legal loopholes that the Army has no problem exploiting which is shameful, IMO.
This underscores the problem of forcing all vaccines on military, without question and without exception. Why should our servicemen be treated as a convenient pool of guinea pigs?
Sadly, this racket has been going on for over a hundred years, and probably the only way things will change is if some top brass muckety muck gets vaxx injured. Until then, the cozy relationship between big pharma and big government will continue unabated.
I wonder if the ChiComs made their military take the jab. Food for thought.
It sounds like the military personnel that got fired were the lucky ones. They were certainly the smart ones.
Pres. Trump should reinstate them when he gets reelected, presuming they want to go back to the new. “woke” armed forces….
I feel very sorry for this girl. I have never given to a Go Fund Me, but I would in this case. The poor thing needs the reassurance of knowing good people do care.
The military relieved Stancik from active duty in April 2022
Why is there not a “Why?” here? This sounds like they let her go – that only happens if you don’t manage to promote or you’ve been a problem child. Was she “stinking up the place” with complaints about the jab? Was there something else?
It really doesn’t matter to the fact they didn’t do a correct LOD on her medical condition when she separated. But it does go to the credibility of the piece, in general.
Yes, this is confusing, and it’s not helped by the reporter who apparently doesn’t understand the complexities of medical dismissals, medical discharges and medical retirement. The service member was in the VA National Guard and on a period of active-duty for training. She wasn’t in the US Army on active-duty. If she had been, this would have been handled differently. Instead, it appears they simply dismissed her for medical reasons, which would be the typical outcome for someone who (at the time of their dismissal) wasn’t suffering from a line of duty injury.
The only time this is seen with active-duty service members is during the early part of their enlistment, usually during the recruit stage. Sometimes recruits will be diagnosed with a pre-existing condition during bootcamp or MOS training that wasn’t identified during their enlistment screening (like at MEPS, for example). If it’s an ailment that is disqualifying (like cancer or diabetes, epilepsy, etc), they won’t be medically discharged. Instead, they’ll often be medically dismissed. As I said, it’s reasonably uncommon.
how will trump better the military with fjb solidifying his lefty positions all over the place
from new laws regarding the hiring and firing ( can that even be done??) of civil servants to the dei entrenched agendas that can not be easily be
de-rooted as that would mean the FEAR OF RIOTING IN THE STREETS (again) and NOT LIKELY TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST
these soldiers of communism
yeah..we are cooked unless the brave rise up and I dont see that happening
Let me state upfront
A) I did not take the vax (age 65 at the time) because my health is good / very good and the relative risk of a serious covid illness was extremely low. and the benefit of much better immunity due to natural infection than via vax.
B) The only individuals that might have benefited from the vax were the elderly and health compromised individuals (obese – diabetic etc)
With that background, there was no reason for her to get vaxed. Period.
That being said, it is also highly unlikely that the vax has caused her any health problems.