COVID Vaccine Injury Reporting: ‘Logic and Ethics Out the Window,’ BC Doctor Laments

COVID Vaccine Injury Reporting: ‘Logic and Ethics Out the Window,’ BC Doctor Laments
A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Surrey, B.C., on May 14, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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Canada’s health-care system is not properly tracking COVID vaccine injuries, a B.C. family doctor says, and he is discouraged because his efforts to report and investigate the side effects seen in his patients have been ignored, he says.

Dr. Charles Hoffe, based in Lytton, a village 260 km northeast of Vancouver, garnered publicity after he wrote an open letter in April 2021 to B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry highlighting what he said were serious side effects in his small community from the Moderna COVID vaccine, along with the challenges he faced getting feedback from the Ministry of Health.