By Children's Health Defense Team
Baseball
legend Hank Aaron, who received the Moderna COVID vaccine on Jan. 5, has died. According to the New York Times, the Atlanta Braves confirmed
the 86-year-old Hall of Famer’s death today, but did not provide further
details.
CNN reported that Aaron died “peacefully in his sleep,”
and that no cause of death was disclosed.
Aaron made headlines earlier this month when he was photographed getting the Moderna vaccine. He told the Associated Press at the time that getting vaccinated “makes me feel wonderful.” He added:
I don’t have any qualms about it at all, you know. I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this. … It’s just a small thing that can help zillions of people in this country.
Aaron was vaccinated at the Morehouse School of Medicine health
clinic in Atlanta, in what news reports said was an attempt to inspire other
Black Americans to step up to the plate and get the vaccine. The AP reported at
the time:
Rolling up their sleeves to take the first of two doses, these octogenarians, their spouses and several other civil rights leaders who received the shots in a brand-new health clinic at the Morehouse School of Medicine acknowledged the legacy of mistrust that many African Americans have toward medical research, stemming from the infamous Tuskegee experiment in which U.S. health workers left syphilis untreated in Black men without their consent, making them suffer needlessly.
In
December, VOX reported on the launch of a global campaign using
influencers and celebrities to help overcome “vaccine hesitancy,” stating that
it “will be unprecedented” and many institutions will have a role, including
government and public health authorities.
However,
health officials continue to encounter pushback, including from healthcare workers.
Adverse events to the COVID vaccine have been reported
worldwide. Germany and Norway have reported a combined 43 deaths among elderly
people who received the Pfizer vaccine, prompting China health officials to call for the vaccines
to be suspended, especially among the elderly.
On
learning of Aaron’s death, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chairman and chief legal
counsel for Children’s Health Defense, said: “Aaron’s tragic death is part
of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following
administration of COVID vaccines.”
“Studies
show that self-interested pharmaceutical company researchers, physicians,
nursing homes and health officials seldom report vaccine injuries. Instead,
they dismiss injuries and deaths as ‘unrelated’ to vaccination,” Kennedy said. “Public health
advocates worry that the vast majority of injuries and deaths will go
unreported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), the notoriously broken voluntary surveillance system run by
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).”
A
2001 HHS study concluded that “fewer than 1% of vaccine
injuries” are reported to VAERS.
As The Defender reported last week, California was forced to
recall a batch of 330,000 Moderna vaccines after a cascade of reported
injuries, though now the company says it’s okay to resume administration of that batch.
The
Defender also covered the story of a 56-year-old Florida doctor who died about
two weeks after getting his first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. His death is under
investigation by Florida health officials. In addition, multiple severe allergic reactions have been directly linked to
the Pfizer vaccine.
The above originally appeared at the Children's Health Fund.
I wanted to addenda short interview of Irish Professore, Dolores Cahill, who explains how the mRNA vaccines are different and the hazardous potential they pose for elderly residents.
