Bek Bickerton, a Queensland resident, claims that after receiving her first Pfizer shot in October of last year, she had negative effects. She then claims that she was prohibited from working after refusing to have her second dose.
The 27-year-old teacher was hospitalized for a week a month after receiving her first shot due to impaired vision, tingling down her arm, low blood pressure, intense exhaustion, and dizziness.
After receiving a POTS diagnosis, Bickerton was returned home and spent the following two months in bed, according to news.com.au.
Although there is no proof that the vaccine caused her syndrome to appear and experts have stated that it wasn’t, the teacher is persuaded that there is a connection between the two.
The state’s vaccination requirement, which expires this week, mandated all ‘high-risk’ workers to get two Covid shots by January 23. The mother of two struggled to care for her small children and was unable to return to work.
More than 1,200 teachers and staff employees were impacted by the directive, including Ms. Bickerton.
She described her illness as “my heart would accelerate to alarming levels when I stood up.”
An MRI of the brain revealed many lesions and inflammation. I had a hard time controlling my heat and blood pressure. Though I experienced a variety of symptoms, extreme exhaustion and mental fog were the worst.
Ms. Bickerton made the decision to forego the second shot, and she has been unable to resume her job due to a number of doctors’ refusals to grant her an exemption after determining there was no proof the vaccine was to blame for her condition.
The instructor at the school claimed she spoke with a number of general practitioners and two neurologists, all of whom refused to attribute her side effects to the vaccine and urged her to have the second dose.
Every time Ms. Bickerton revealed experiencing issues after getting the vaccination, she felt that her doctors and acquaintances labeled her as a “anti-vaxxer.”
The mother of two eventually located a Gold Coast general practitioner with expertise in POTS who concurred that the vaccine was most likely to blame for her condition and gave her a three-month exemption.
Because schools would only hire her for relief work, according to Ms. Bickerton, the family living on a single salary was unable to acquire a mortgage to update their home.
She was cited as adding, “My life has pretty well been devastated as we’re now on a single income.”
Over 59.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinations have resulted in 132,155 adverse events as of June 19 according to the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Queenslanders will no longer require a second vaccination to work in childcare, prisons, airports, or jails or to enter facilities for the elderly and disabled, according to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Friday.
The modifications will take effect on June 30 at 1 AM.
“Limitations that have protected us have lessened in reasonable stages,” she told lawmakers, “and now I declare that we are eliminating some of the final remaining COVID-19 restrictions with the opinion of the Chief Health Officer.”
Individual businesses would still be able to maintain requirements in schools, daycares, prisons, and airports, according to Ms. Palaszczuk.
For employees of healthcare, hospital, aged care, and facilities for people with disabilities, she stated that mandates will still be in effect.
Despite the state lowering its COVID-19 vaccination restrictions, Ms. Bickerton told news.com.au that she is concerned that many schools may choose to maintain their double dosage requirements.
According to the Queensland Department of Education, the state’s vaccination requirement resulted in the suspension of 549 teachers and 660 non-teaching staff members.
The Queensland Department of Education stated that vaccination mandates would last until June 30.
This implies that the unvaccinated teachers and non-teaching staff members will be permitted to return to their regular work locations at the school.
Over 95% of Australians over the age of 16 have gotten two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine nationally.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration website states that “vaccination against COVID-19 is the most effective strategy to minimize deaths and severe illness from infection.”
The protective advantages of vaccinations still outweigh the possible hazards by a wide margin.