Brianne Dressen
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Is that for me?
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
They were claiming nothing. The sad reality is as soon as I was injured, they couldn't get away from me fast enough. There were two times that I heard from them for any kind of amount of money. And at that point, it wasn't about money. I was trying to get some answers to what was going on in my body. but they wouldn't respond to anything.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And they both, the two times they responded were because reporters came after them and they offered me $590 for the first time.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Yeah. You know, it can pay for maybe one, one 10th of a ER visit. And we actually told them, no, don't send us that money. Go back and look at our records and try again. And they wired the money to us anyway. And we didn't hear from them again until another reporter hit them up. And the second settlement letter was for $1,200. they're not taking this seriously. And yeah.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
That's a really good question. I would hope that at one point we can get one of them to just answer that in an honest fashion. I guess that's one benefit of a lawsuit is hopefully that will force them to actually take this seriously and answer those questions that not just me injured in the clinical trial, but their other participants would like to know those implications.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
We all enlisted in the fight against COVID together to help the greater good. I had no idea when I enrolled in this scientific experiment that I was actually enlisting in a corporate propaganda machine. I thought I was enlisting in an objective, active scientific process. And they did agree to help me if there was a problem, and they didn't.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Dr. Drew called me unfixable.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Thanks for having me.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Everything started at the beginning of the pandemic, just like anybody else. I was watching the news and I was really concerned about what I was seeing. I have a lot of medical professionals in my family and hearing what was going on in the hospitals was also alarming to say the least.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
So I wanted to do my part to help get everybody out of the pandemic, and I enrolled in a clinical trial with AstraZeneca here in the United States. So November 4th, 2020, I got my one and only shot, and my reaction started within an hour. And I started with this severe, strange pins and needles sensation down the same arm as my injection. And it spread to my other arm, my body, head to toe.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And that same horrific pins and needles prickling sensation is with me to this day, every moment of every day. I landed in the hospital.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
I actually have it body wide. So it's, yeah, it's spread from one side to the other. And then it spread from my head down to my feet and it actually moves with my heartbeat. So, and I do understand what you're saying. Yeah. So it's the first thing I feel when I wake up in the morning. It's the last thing I feel when I not off to sleep with a bunch of meds to calm down the severe pain. So yeah.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Well, through fighting with the NIH, fighting with the FDA, fighting with all of the drug companies, we learned really quickly that they were not going to help us. So we started our own registered 501c3 nonprofit, react19.org. We currently represent 36,000 COVID vaccine injured Americans. We have a partnership with over 20 other COVID vaccine injury organizations globally.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
The purpose of this organization is to provide financial, physical, and emotional support for people that are suffering these severe adverse events. Because just like you know, they're not getting adequate medical care. They're getting no compensation from the government. And they also are... completely left abandoned. And emotionally, it's been a really big struggle for a lot of our members.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Our partner organization did a survey.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Well, and this is something that you understand better than most is that kind of psychological... attack on people that are suffering, that are really just trying to hang on to the day-to-day is a very dangerous situation. So our partner organization did a survey and asked their injured membership, how many of you have considered suicide during the duration of your illness?
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
The answer came back with over 70%. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. As far as we're concerned, 70% of people who self-report that they're having severe COVID vaccine injuries are coming... are having a life or death decision because of the severe circumstances they land. So this is why we do feel that this is a crisis and it's something that the government does need to address.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And we are expecting the Trump administration to really dig into this to address these issues long covet issues chronic fatigue syndrome issues these are the patients that just continue to be abandoned but in the meantime yes it's independent organizations people like yourself that are really propelling this conversation to be something that is not political But making this a human issue, right?
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And so that's why- So weird. Yeah, so through our organization, we have provided medical grants for over $890,000 to date to people that are suffering severe adverse events. We're a volunteer organization. We do this because we understand the substantial needs of this population. So if there's anyone out there
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
that feels inspired to jump in with this grassroots activation and really help their fellow man, we're a good place to start.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
This was not on my bingo card. Let's just say that. Yeah, I was just an everyday preschool teacher, retired project manager, just living my life, being a good citizen, teaching my kids how to take care of others around them. And now this has turned into this crazy thing. you know, a firestorm that I never would have expected.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
But at the end of the day, I really appreciate the fact that I see things crystal clear now. I see what the media does. I see what the corporations do. Isn't it crazy?
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Yes. So the first time I had a nerve biopsy done, it was at the National Institutes of Health when they flew 20 plus of us out to be studied for neurological complications to the COVID vaccines. My first neuropathy test showed very minor, minuscule levels. I just had it rechecked. So three years later, and it's definitely progressing and getting worse. Okay.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Great. So react19.org. And you can hop on Amazon and buy this book if you would like. 100% of the proceeds go to the nonprofit. We're not pocketing any of the money. This is a non-confrontational nonprofit. narrative that you actually can give to your family members if you would like them to just start considering what could really have been going on during the COVID pandemic.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
It really is bringing out the human aspect of this side because we've all just been hammered with the political narrative. And now it's time for us to take a step back you know, have a disarming conversation and really start looking at this logically. So yeah, so yeah, you can pick that up on Amazon if you want.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Great. Thank you.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
So I've been diagnosed with post-vaccine neuropathy from the National Institutes of Health. That's been verified by several world experts, as well as dysautonomia, POTS, which is the heart dysregulation. It's basically a neuroimmune condition. where your immune system can't really help your nervous system regulate itself.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And it does end up in a multi-system cascade of syndromes from brain fog, fatigue, pins and needles, numbness, weakness, heart rate fluctuations, food sensitivities, hair loss. It sounds an awful lot like long COVID. Yeah.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
But it's interesting because we really should be studying long COVID and post-vax syndrome or long vax so we can actually get both of the patient populations better.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
I was the only patient from AstraZeneca in the trial. Everybody else was Pfizer, Moderna. There was one other person with J&J in the trial.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
J&J is an adenoviral vector vaccine. So it's a very similar technology. Yeah.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Yeah, so AstraZeneca is an Oxford product. So it was the golden child in the UK. And the UK, at the very beginning of the vaccine rollout, they were telling the public, don't get the mRNA products. Just hang on for a couple more weeks. AstraZeneca is coming. This is the superior product of the UK.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And then in the US, they had the golden children, which was Pfizer and Moderna, the new novel mRNA technology.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
These were all neuroimmune conditions. So they checked all of us with the similar testing. They checked the coagulation of our blood. They checked the MRIs, which just like everybody else, the MRIs looked fine. But that's when they really started looking into dysautonomia and POTS, small fiber neuropathy, EMGs with a large fiber neuropathy decay.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
And that's one thing that we've learned through our own research is the significant overlap between long COVID and post-vax syndrome. They look near identical, but there is a signature. And people that are suffering with post-vaccine adverse events really do have a higher likelihood of having these longer term neurological nerve damage type syndromes.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
I do. Yeah. My EMG came back positive on my left leg.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
It was interesting. They couldn't quite identify it early on. And because of the political dynamic going on in the United States in the summer of 2021, they actually shut down the study in the middle of it. So they were following up with every single participant weekly saying, hey, what are your symptoms doing? We've got some more updates on these tests that we've been waiting on.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
They were really engaging with the patients in a You know, in a way that you would expect the government to be doing with a new novel set of diseases, right? But then, of course, OSHA mandates happened. And literally within days, our follow-up appointments to the NIH were canceled. Even our flights were canceled to go out there again. And all of a sudden, it was radio silence. So...
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Funny you ask. The FDA, we plugged in with them at the end of summer of 2021. At this time, it was Peter Marks, head of biologics at the FDA. We had several meetings with him, coordinating with him to discuss why they're not following the rest of the world in communicating these adverse events as they emerge to the American public, as we saw in Germany and Denmark earlier.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
They were doing something different, right? They gave us injured people that were advocating for other injured people. They gave us a long list of things that we should be doing to help them do their jobs. They asked us for all of the terms of neuropathy that we had identified in their VAERS system. They also did acknowledge to us that small fiber neuropathy is happening after COVID vaccination.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
in women in particular, and I'm sure you may not know this, but small fiber neuropathy is not something that happens in young, healthy women. Small fiber neuropathy is something that happens with diabetes or men with an average onset at age 59. This shouldn't be happening in women of childbearing age. They did find that signal.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
They acknowledged that to us, but then they still didn't feel that it was significant enough to disclose to the public. We hammered them on MIS, which is a potentially, and it has been deadly in children and teens. We also went after them with Guillain-Barre, clotting, myocarditis that ends in death. Actually, my lawyers read all of our communications with the FDA.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
But yeah, so it's been a brutal process. All I can say is we did everything. everything humanly possible to work within the system to get them to do the right thing. And it's devastating to know what they know by working with them. And then it's also more devastating to know what they have yet to tell the public even four years after the COVID vaccine rollout began.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
Yes. So Science Magazine has actually disclosed, they've done two reports on our information. We, of course, just like everybody else, we tried with New York Times, we tried with Wall Street Journal, and none of them could get it to run. And so Wall Street Journal actually ran it, a story on the cover-up from the FDA, but as an opinion piece.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
So I guess it's an opinion, all of the documents that we have. But this hard block on getting the truth out, at the end of the day, all it's done is harmed people even further who were suffering with these adverse events across the country who needed this information. And their providers, their doctors needed this information.
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Brianne Dressen: COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Sues AstraZeneca After Years Of ‘Electrocuting Pain’ & Mere $1300 Compensation Offer – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 426
My goal is to kind of restructure how we are approaching even the word vaccine injury. But whenever people think about vaccine injury now, they think politics. This is not a political issue. This is a health condition. This is a medical problem.