Vaccination discrimination
Discrimination based on vaccine status. Mocking, verbal and physical abuse for being unvaccinated.
These testimony clips are drawn from interviews conducted by CHBMP with families and survivors. Each clip stands as evidence and remembrance. We share them to honor those who came forward, to seek accountability, and to ensure these experiences are never forgotten.
“"if you're not that kind of a family member, you're going to be barred from the hospital.”
From the testimony of Gail Seiler
“"a male nurse talked to him rather roughly that he wouldn't even be in there had him be been vaccinated.”
From the testimony of Sammie Hosch
“"But they they really are going going against the unvaccinated because they have to keep up that narrative. It's the pandemic and the unvaccinated when it's really the vaxxed the vaccinated are the ones that are dropping like flies.”
From the testimony of Michael E. Pilgrim
“"And then doctors came back. Right? you know, one person asked me, like, oh, are you vaccinated? And I said I was honestly like, nope. I am not. And then like, oh, well, you could prevent all this, and you could have saved us a whole lot of time if you were not if you were vaxxed.”
From the testimony of Kevin Tyykila
“"the daughter-in-law found out that they were giving her remdesivir, and they said, no. We never gave you permission to give her that. And they said, oh, no. They said, who gave you permission to give her this? And they said the family did. They go, no. We're the family. We never did. So they just do it. You the patients go in, and they just give it to them. And I know she wasn't vaccinated either. So I know to me, I feel like if you weren't vaccinated, they were gonna give it to you because they want you to die.”
From the testimony of Sheryl Ann Contreras
“"Absolutely. You could you could see the the look on the faces of the doctors and, you know, even when I went in and talked to the doctor when he's in the hospital, she, you know, brought up the vaccinated part. And, you know, he k. If he was vaccinated, he wouldn't have gotten us sick and, you know, all the you know, tried to shame me, you know, about our vaccine. You need to get one as soon as you can.”
From the testimony of Sheryl Ann Contreras
“"They put me on a five day remdesivir. And I remember just getting sicker and sicker every day, and I I didn't understand. And I had told them I didn't want that, but they just gave it to me. And and I was so I don't know how they drugged me or what, but I was out of it... And the reason I say that is the day when I got out of the hospital, I was scolded and told to go get the vaccination... I just feel like they because I wasn't vaccinated, I was looked at differently... they made him leave. They wouldn't let him stay with me. So now... a patient should not be left alone. They need somebody there to be their voice because you're sick.”
From the testimony of Catherine I Hoheisel
“"The X-ray technician would come in, and he was starting to badger us about not being vaccinated. Why? Why pressuring us? Why? Why? And finally, I'm like, I'm not gonna discuss this with you anymore.”
From the testimony of Raul Osuna
“"After the first vaccine, he didn't really notice a whole lot, maybe a little bit of fever, chills. The second one, we we both had the exact same one. All of a sudden, we started having numbness, tingling, paresthesia, electric shocks, extreme pain all up and down his spine, headaches. And then that slowly got worse to where he began vomiting on a semi-regular basis, like, every other day or so. He couldn't sit in a chair comfortably. He felt like he was choking, not able to breathe, hard hard to walk, a lot of, you know, off balance, not feeling very fatigued, sweats and chills, so many symptoms he had.”
From the testimony of Daniel Van Ackeren
“"Doctors there were gaslighting us. They didn't wanna hear that it was from the vaccine, but I was... I wanted it in the record because he was fine before this. He was an athlete, very, you know, healthy before this. And so I just wanted it in the record, but that almost made things worse because they really didn't want to get to the bottom of what was going on.”
From the testimony of Daniel Van Ackeren
“"this is from the COVID vaccine. I said not one person, including yourself, the whole time in the hospital... they wanna admit that it's coming from the COVID vaxx.”
“"Not one person's ever said COVID, vaxxed, COVID, or pericarditis, even while I'm in for treatment of pericarditis...”
“"Not only has the vaccine injured me with my heart, I have a lot of neurological issues, that that happen all the time. I've been hospitalized, where I've actually been there and doctors have looked at me and I've had, uncontrollable muscle spasms. My legs would give out from under me. I have zaps of pain that shoot through the bottom of my feet all the way to the top of my head. I have trouble breathing sometimes. I have trouble resting, and weird things... Now in summertime when I get a mosquito bite, they swell up the size of like a baseball, size on my legs. They just ooze at night. I have all kinds of weird things that are unexplainable that have happened ever since getting the, Moderna vaccine.”
From the testimony of Matthew Webster
“"First of all, he had lost a tremendous amount of weight, which I did not know, until I got the medical records. [...] In about in fourteen days in fourteen days, he lost thirty six pounds. [...] And then the sore that she told me about wasn't just a sore. It was a hole, basically, in the bridge of his nose. [...] and people are being rude to him in there and, you know, treating him terribly because he was unvaccinated.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"She said, I just want to put you on remdesivir and throw you on a ventilator right now. You are an idiot for not being vaccinated. [...] they left him in the emergency room, on an ER bed, if you can call it that, for two days. No food, no water. [...] he was completely ambulatory, speaking in full sentences, able to eat, carry on a conversation, and they just left him in there because they said they had no beds for him. [...] I do believe because my husband was unvaccinated, there was bias and discrimination against him clearly, shouting at him and blaming him and, you know, calling him an idiot. [...] guess what? Your husband tested negative for COVID not once, but twice.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"But he was subjected to a COVID protocol, and that is all that they saw was an unvaccinated COVID patient. And it wasn't I decided and my family and his parents. We knew something had gone horribly wrong because my my husband basically went in there. I mean, the night he went in there, we'd had Thai food. I mean, he you know, he wasn't that sick. He just had, you know, low oxygen saturation, needed a little extra help. And, you know, to in the span of sixteen days declined to the point where he was dead.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"the ER doctor started berating him and yelling at him, because he was not vaccinated. So the emergency room doctor said, this is all your fault. You should have taken the vaccine. I just want to put you on remdesivir and throw you on a ventilator right now.”
From the testimony of Steven Hix
“"She should still be here. She would still be here if she didn't take four shots. There's no she had nothing wrong with her.”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson
“"I was like, I'm screaming. I'm vaccine injured. I'm vaccine injured. Oh my god. I'm vaccine injured. ... I knew immediately it was the vaccines because she was the only one in my family that gave me her vaccination card because I was studying the batch numbers.”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson
“"my mother died of the vaccine. I've got her vaccine card. She was not you know, there's no medical provider I can give you because she doesn't have a doctor. She's never been hospitalized except for a hand surgery. So why is she dead? I don't know. She has no heart problems ever. She's had low blood pressure, if anything. She's not on any medication, not any medication at all.”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson
“"So her first shots when I look at her vaccine card, so Palo Alto Medical Clinic... Yep. I have the batch numbers. I have our vaccine card. There's deaths associated with all of them because I run them out of VAERS…”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson
“"No. I doubt it. I mean, I know what we gave at the clinics here in Chico, and she would have gotten the same thing here because we're both in California. You know, you signed a form. There wasn't a big old litany of possible side effects. There was no informed consent. They gave you a paper, a little flyer for v safe and said if you wanna track your next appointment or if you have any questions about your shot when you get home, call this number. They said nothing about theirs, nothing about the side effects.”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson
“"And so and, again, I you know, she wouldn't have any reason to now it just drives me insane. So she knows I'm injured. So I'm like and I'm telling her. Right? I mean, I gotta tell everything. I'm like, mom, I got injured by these shots. And, but she, you know, she is one person that would do whatever her government told her to do. She believed that that they would not lie to her and that they would have her best interest and that her doctors would too. And, again, having my sister-in-law lose a kidney after her Pfizer shot, you know, that third booster.”
From the testimony of Jane Pierson Williamson