(WATCH) Dr Vaughn


We continue our reporting on an important story that stands to impact many of us in some way. It has to do with the latest research to help people suffering after effects from Covid, Covid vaccines, or both. The work we’ve done on this topic has been viewed by millions on TV and online. Today, we head back to Birmingham, Alabama to get an update from a doctor who has become an international resource for diagnosing, treating, and unraveling the mysterious illnesses.

The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”
Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page.

Dr. Jordan Vaughn has been playing medical detective ever since he first began diagnosing and treating Covid illnesses and vaccine injuries that are still confounding many doctors.

Vaughn: Then the additional thing we found is the venous component of that and had to fix that as well.

So actually opening up that iliac vein allows that blood to get back to the heart and at the same time, drain, in a sense, drain your venous system. And my kind of partner in crime, I guess, in Colorado, we’ve done about 200 now in this patient base anywhere from the ages of 15 to about 72, 73 is the oldest. And the young people definitely do very, very well. The older people, it does take a little longer because their veins are older to begin with.

Hannah Bourgeois, mother of five, had a stent implanted to open up her iliac vein shortly after we first met her over a year ago at Dr. Vaughn’s office. She’d gotten so sick after Covid and Covid vaccines, she was nearly bedridden for two years.

Here’s what she told us last year.

Hannah: I felt like my body was just shutting down on me, and there wasn’t anything I could do about it.

Now, she describes a pronounced difference.

Hannah: At my lowest point, I mean, it sounds dramatic, but I remember thinking, “How old does my youngest need to get before he doesn’t need me as much?” because I really didn’t know how long I could keep going. We went to Mayo Clinic and really couldn’t get any answers. And then I met Dr. Vaughn and I think it was August of 2022. And he put me on the triple anticoagulant therapy. And I felt like a new person after that. A lot of, you know, I could do a lot of things that I had been very limited.

Then, immediately after she got the stent in her iliac vein, she could see a difference, with color returning first to her left foot as blood flow opened up— she says her whole body symptoms improved.

Ellen Reidinger describes a similar recovery.

Reidinger: Yes. I feel like I noticed some changes immediately.

When we first met Reidinger last year, she’d also gotten very sick after getting vaccinated and getting Covid. (VO: Old running from previous story) A competitive runner, she’d had to stop exercising entirely. Her cardiologist referred her to Dr. Vaughn.

Here’s what she told us then:

Reidinger: I mean, I can pinpoint the day, the time, where I was, when I was running. I was doing a workout. And all of a sudden, I cannot feel my legs. I cannot feel, I mean, my heart rate is going 200. I can’t do it. I call my dad. I’m like, “I’m done working out. I can’t, I can’t do it.” And I went for like three or four months of just feeling awful.

Today, an update after more than a year of treatment under Dr. Vaughn and his team.

Sharyl: So you’re one of the patients who’s had a stent put into your iliac vein?

Reidinger: Yes.

Sharyl: What kind of a difference did you notice and when?

Reidinger: Yes. I feel like I noticed some changes immediately. Like my coloration immediately I had more pink to my skin and then my heart rate took a little bit to come down. But I feel like that’s normal because my heart rate was pumping so much to get the same amount of blood through my body and it wasn’t getting the same amount of blood. And so it would just take a while for my body to just recognize that I had this same amount of blood.

Now, she’s back on track and even running again.

Vaughn: It’s one thing to open up the vessel. It’s another to understand that all the vessels are also probably having issues. They’re just not as apparently obvious as the one that’s compressed. And so we’ve gotta make sure not only that we open it up and allow venous flow to happen, but we’ve gotta heal the rest of the vasculature too. And there’s lots of ways that we do that, whether it’s with anticoagulants, other kind of supplements that help with the inside of the vessel to heal back to the normal state.

Sharyl: What is your thinking today as to what is being caused by people who had Covid, maybe even without symptoms, versus what may be caused by people who had Covid vaccines and a problem with that?

Dr. Vaughn: So things like lots more neurological issues, stuff that’s very disconcerting to the patient but also mystifying to the neurologist. On top of that, it seems like immunologically the vaccine makes your immune system in many ways different than it would be if you just had Covid. A lot of that is being discovered after the fact, which is kind of, quite disconcerting.

The federal government doesn’t seem to be putting much effort into the vaccine injury part of the Covid equation. Even after hundreds of millions of Americans got the shots and we’re still learning about serious side effects.

A major study called RECOVER is spending more than $1.6 billion tax dollars to find drugs that might help people with long Covid. But since most people who got Covid also had one or more vaccines

I asked a study spokesman: “How are working to distinguish the impact of vaccines?” versus just Covid.

The spokesman replied: “Confirming that RECOVER researchers are tracking vaccination status” but they “are not currently studying ‘Long Vax’.”

I asked then “How do the researchers know if the illnesses they are seeing are due to ‘long Covid’ or are due to ‘long Vax’ orsome combination thereof?” The spokesman declined to respond and cut off our communications.

Sharyl: Seems to me they’re being presented with important data as we try to figure out as we should be what vaccine side effects there are. And yet they’re blending, they’re calling them all long Covid. They’re not distinguishing between the patients who may have been exacerbated because they were vaccinated.

Dr. Vaughn: Yeah, I think that’s unfortunately on purpose. I will say in my clinic, you know, the important thing is, “Have you been vaccinated?” and then “What were the symptoms after your vaccine?” I would say some people never had any symptoms within that kind of 14-day issue. But then months later started to have interesting kind of cardiovascular problems or new onset, brain fog, those kind of things. And it’s, again, they haven’t had covid in that time period. But I like to make that distinction ’cause it does kind of inform us. uh, you know, what kind of, I’d say the, the amount of damage seems to be more, the more times the spike has been allowed to run through your body.

A final note. Although there’s good news in terms of treatments and discoveries, patients are seeing dramatic improvement, Dr. Vaughn says their health isn’t returning fully back to where it used to be.

For Reidinger, she says her immune system seems markedly different now.

Sharyl: It sounds like you’ve had some health problems, you keep getting sick?

Reidinger: Yes.

Sharyl: Is this, do you think this is a lingering effect of, or maybe impact of preexisting conditions exacerbated by the illness from Covid and the vaccines?

Reidinger: Yes.

Hannah: I’m a pretty active person and I tried to just get back into everything that I had been doing. And I realized I’m not back to where I was pre 2020 pre covid. I’ve really had to modify how I do life, now, and it’s taken me a while to figure that out. 4:11ish?

Sharyl: What is your advice to so many people who are looking for answers?

Dr. Vaughn: So first I think it is to write down all your symptoms and write down things that you’re experiencing. I think that really helps a lot of the doctors to, to put it all together because especially when somebody comes with six months or a year of issues and some of those issues change throughout time, it’s really hard, especially in the way our medical system’s set up to sit there and digest that in 15 minutes. The other thing is coming up with a temporal relationship that either a vaccine or an infection had to your symptoms. And I think that’s really helpful to doctors to go, you know what, you’re right.

Sharyl (on camera): Dr. Vaughn has established the Microvascular Research Foundation to develop clinical trials and research.

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