Dr. Patricia Lee, M.D., an ICU physician based in California, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alleging that she had observed more vaccine-related injuries associated with the COVID-19 vaccines than she had seen during her previous 20 years as a doctor.
In the letter, she described seeing “entirely healthy individuals suffering serious, often fatal, injuries,” according to her attorneys in a follow-up email. The injuries included “transverse myelitis, resulting in quadriplegia, pneumocystis pneumonia, multi-system organ failure, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, postpartum hemorrhagic shock and septic shock, and disseminated CMV and CMV viremia.”
On September 28, 2021, Dr. Patricia Lee, M.D., a California-based ICU physician, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In it, she said she had observed more vaccine-related injuries than she had seen during her 20 years working in medicine.
In the letter, Dr. Lee explained that although she was “fully vaccinated for Covid-19,” her “personal experience this year treating patients in a busy ICU does not comport with claims made by federal health authorities regarding the safety of Covid-19 vaccines.”
Dr. Lee is a licensed California physician who earned her medical degree from the University of Southern California. She completed postgraduate training at Georgetown University and “Harvard-affiliated hospitals” and has practiced medicine “for more than 20 years.” However, she said that throughout her career, she had “never witnessed so many vaccine-related injuries until this year.”
She acknowledged in her letter that she felt “pained in admitting this,” but said she was “compelled by conscience to state the facts” as she had observed them while working in the ICU.
She then listed several “illustrative examples of Covid-19 vaccine-related injuries I have observed firsthand.” She wrote that “it is my clinical judgment that each of these injuries was caused by the Covid-19 vaccine, because there was no other plausible explanation for these injuries other than the fact that the patients had recently been vaccinated.”
The vaccine reactions listed in her letter involved individuals described as healthy who allegedly suffered serious or fatal injuries, including transverse myelitis resulting in quadriplegia, pneumocystis pneumonia, multi-system organ failure, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, postpartum hemorrhagic shock and septic shock, and disseminated CMV and CMV viremia. Lee’s attorneys referenced these cases in an October 6, 2021, follow-up letter to the same agencies.
Dr. Lee wrote that “approximately half of the patients detailed” in her letter had since died. “Those who survived are struggling with long-term sequelae and a diminished quality of life,” she wrote.
“It appears statistically improbable that any one physician should witness this many Covid-19 vaccine injuries if the federal health authority claims regarding Covid-19 safety were accurate.”
“I have spoken with colleagues who have also had similar experiences in treating patients.” She added that her colleagues were reluctant to discuss similar experiences because they feared fueling “vaccine hesitancy” and facing potential punishment.
“I can no longer silently accept the serious harm being caused by the Covid-19 vaccines,” Dr. Lee concluded. “It is my sincere hope that the reaction to this letter will not be to focus on me, but rather to focus on addressing the serious safety issues with these products that, without doubt, you have either missed or are choosing to ignore.”
After the original letter was sent, her attorneys sent another letter to the CDC and FDA stating that the agencies’ “failure to respond is highly concerning.” They added that they were seeking a response so they could “arrange a discussion and information gathering session between Dr. Lee and the appropriate representatives at the CDC and FDA.”