THE VILLAGES, Fla.—A leading physician at the largest retirement community in the United States is seeing an “alarming increase” in COVID-19 vaccine injuries among her patients.
At a Jan. 26 press conference, held at the Waterfront Inn at Sumter Landing in The Villages, Florida, Dr. Marivic Villa reported that the vaccine injuries are especially prevalent in patients over the age of 64.
“A vaccine injury is a normal response of your immune system,” she told the crowd at the press conference. “Usually, the immune system will protect you. But it’s attacking you.”
The most common complication she’s seeing is a neurological disorder where “the spinal cord is being attacked.”
To support her assessment that elder vaccine injuries are on the rise, she presented data gathered on residents of The Villages.
Out of 10,098 patients, 5,861 are over the age of 64. Of those, 5,568, or 95 percent, have received at least one dose of the COVID-19, and 51 percent of vaccinated patients received four or five doses.
Among the vaccinated, 1,258 patients (22.6 percent) are presenting with one or more new diseases, including immune deficiency (41.4 percent), autoimmune disorders (38.2 percent), and immunodeficiency disorders (20.4 percent). Many are also suffering from a reactivation of dormant infections from their past, such as Epstein-Barr Virus (40 percent), herpes (19 percent), and Lyme disease (31 percent).
Dr. Villa is also seeing an increase in cases of cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, stroke, and transient ischemic attack. There is also a rise in the number of hematologic and oncologic diagnoses such as blood clots, cancer, and anemia.
‘It Just Keeps on Giving’
Before the press conference began, Lynette Milakovich shared her story with The Epoch Times.Ms. Milakovich, a resident of The Villages, was a court reporter in California for 40 years. She was a healthy and physically active yoga instructor until she received her second Pfizer vaccine on March 31, 2021. Within a week, she said, she developed nerve issues, tinnitus, tremors, and convulsions. She lost 20 pounds in two months and was diagnosed with brain injury in her frontal lobe, which also went into the basal ganglia of the brain.
Sander Alexander and her husband had taken two Pfizer shots in 2021, one in February and the other in March. She developed COVID-19 twice, first in April 2022 and then in January 2023.
“I feel like my life has gone down the tubes,” she said tearfully. “I’ve had two surgeries on my heart. I didn’t have that problem before.”
She has stents now, and an autoimmune disorder. She also has Lyme disease and Epstein-Barr Virus.
“I found out this morning I have Stage 1 breast cancer,” she said, breaking down. “It just keeps on giving.”
The medical expenses are devastating, she said. Other doctors tried to pass everything off as a side effect of the hormones she’s been taking.
A younger woman who did not give her name said her whole family got vaccinated. Before the shots, they were all reasonably healthy. However, “two weeks to the day” after her mother received her COVID vaccine, “she just crashed.”
“She ended up [in] the hospital and is on oxygen,” she said. “She’s in very bad shape.”
The woman said her mother now has Stage 3 kidney failure, kidney cancer, and “serious lung problems.”
Her brother Michael also developed Stage 3 kidney cancer. He recently died at the age of 57.
Two weeks after her brother’s passing, she found out that she is now in kidney failure and has developed lupus.
‘It Was Shocking’
Maija C. Hahn is a speech-language pathologist, an autism specialist, and the founder of United for Healthcare Workers, described as a “national organization of independent healthcare workers who support true informed consent and medical choice and freedoms.”“This is the first time that we have seen, throughout this COVID pandemic, a group of senior citizens that are coming forward to share their vaccine-injury stories,” Ms. Hahn said at the press conference.
In a follow-up interview by phone on Jan. 30, Ms. Hahn said she became a vaccine-injury advocate to “help families make informed decisions.”
Asked what stands out to her the most during her advocacy for those injured by COVID-19 vaccines, Ms. Hahn said, “it’s the ongoing mantra in the medical community that the vaccines are safe and effective.”
She reflected upon how the COVID-19 vaccines bypassed all of the long-term safety studies, which are traditionally required before the Food and Drug Administration approves a vaccine for use on the human populace.
According to Johns Hopkins University, vaccine development typically takes five to 10 years.
The COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration in less than a year. Within eight months, over 7 billion doses had been administered globally.
“And this one was mandated across the entire world,” Ms. Hahn told The Epoch Times. “It was shocking to see how many doctors didn’t even consider being cautious. The censorship is also extraordinary. The lack of media coverage, the systematic silencing and deplatforming of victims of vaccine injury who simply want to share their tragedies and stories of their loved ones dying.
“It’s sad. If we can’t find the truth and have informed consent, we can’t be informed about another pharmaceutical coming out and being pushed on all of us.”
