‘The Unseen Crisis’: Giving a Voice to the COVID-Vaccine Injured

"The Unseen Crisis" is written and directed by Cindy Drukier. (NTD Productions/The Epoch Times)

NR | 1h 30m | Documentary | May 19, 2023

Nominated for best documentary at the Festival of Cinema NYC, “The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told” gives viewers a glimpse into lives that were forever changed by the COVID-19 vaccines, and not in a positive way.

Frontline victims, as noted in the documentary, have been “abandoned by everyone” except their families and a small group of doctors who are “brave enough to say we’re facing a new disease: vaccine injury.”

The documentary, a NTD Productions film in association with The Epoch Times, begins with the writer, director, and host of the film, Cindy Drukier, asking with some basic questions: Why is there still so much disagreement around vaccines? Why do some doctors consider vaccines a crisis, while others “don’t see a problem at all”?

Throughout the film, Ms. Drukier travels to different locales to meet with validated whistleblowers, medical experts, and those harmed by the vaccines—adding governmental statistics as well.

Ms. Drukier’s first stop is Milford, Ohio, to meet with the de Garay family, headed by father, Patrick, and mother, Stephanie. One of their three children, Maddie, took the Pfizer vaccine as part of the Pfizer vaccine trail. She joined because her brother’s friend and then her brother joined the trial.

After the second vaccine dose in January 2021, as her parents describe, Maddie came home from school one day “screaming in pain.” Her symptoms included heart, feet, and stomach pains, convulsions, sharp electrical pain up and down her spine and neck, and a host of other problems.

She is now so ill that she’s confined to a wheelchair and needs constant care from her parents. She also requires to be fed all of her daily nutrition in the form of a sludge-like paste via a feeding tube.

Maddie de Garay (L) being fed through a tube by her mother Stephanie in “The Unseen Crisis” (NTD Productions/The Epoch Times)

Since that initial 2021 episode, Maddie has been taken to the emergency room numerous times, and has experienced over 35 serious adverse effects. Stephanie explains that neither Pfizer, the  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have ever reached out to the de Garay family.

Next, we meet Ernest Ramirez from Edinburg, Texas, whose 16-year-old son Ernest Jr. took the Pfizer shot on April 19, 2021. Five days later, Ernest Jr. went out with some friends; in retrospect, Mr. Ramirez recalls saying goodbye to his son.

Later in the day, Mr. Ramirez received a call notifying him that something was wrong with his boy, who had been playing basketball, and that his son was being picked up by an ambulance. When Mr. Ramirez arrived at the hospital, a doctor informed him that Jr. had died.

As mentioned, Ernest Jr.’s death occurred just days after taking the Pfizer shot, and was officially attributed to cardiomegaly, or an enlarged heart. An enlarged heart is associated with myocarditis, which the CDC and FDA acknowledges can be caused by COVID-19 vaccines.

Rushing the Process

Mr. Ernest Ramirez (R) standing by his son Ernest Jr. in “The Unseen Crisis.” (NTD Productions /The Epoch Times)

A news clip shows President Donald Trump as he announces his big vaccine push titled “Operation Warp Speed” on May 20, 2020, with Dr. Anthony Fauci behind him wearing two masks. Mr. Trump talks about manufacturing a coronavirus vaccine and rolling it out as quickly as possible in order to get it out to the masses “prior to the end of the year.”

Ms. Drukier reveals that, although normal vaccine development typically occurs over the course of 10 years, the Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccine development timeline was whittled down to mere months. The phases of development under this plan were also carried at the same time, in parallel, instead of the normal process which is sequential in order to make sure each phase is safely vetted before proceeding to the next one.

Pharmaceutical companies often subcontract out their clinical research. As Ms. Drukier explains, the Ventavia Research Group was hired by Pfizer to run some of their COVID-19 vaccine trials. A clinical trial expert named Brook Jackson was subsequently hired by Ventavia and worked as manager of quality control at two of its trial sites in the Dallas, Texas, area.

Ms. Jackson describes how she immediately noticed the “unusual speed” at which the Ventavia Pfizer trials were running. She recalls how Pfizer was pushing the Ventavia staff to enroll more and more patients in the trials, which were the most problematic she'd ever seen. She adds that many of the patients’ signatures on the trial informed-consent forms didn’t match, and the company’s principal investigator’s signature was missing on some forms as well.

Whistleblower Ms. Brook Jackson (L) talks with Ms. Cindy Drukier in “The Unseen Crisis.” (NTD Productions/The Epoch Times)

Ms. Jackson says that Ventavia didn’t always carry out patient physical exams and didn’t report all adverse effects—many of them quite serious.

In her 20 years as an auditor, Ms. Jackson says that she’s never seen such falsification and fraud. When she brought her concerns to her superiors, the company reportedly took no corrective action and fired her when she followed up by complaining to the FDA. The FDA, she explains, also did nothing with her alarming information.

Soon after, Pfizer announced that it had successfully developed vaccines that were “95 percent effective” and applied for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). With this moniker, pharmaceutical companies pushed out the vaccines, despite, as the film shows, having a less than proven risk-to-benefit ratio.

The film also makes the point that the government agencies who are supposed to be the safety watchdogs (FDA, CDC) are also the vaccine sponsors, so there was a serious conflict of interest.

A Glimmer of Hope

Despite these disturbing revelations, however, this film offers a ray of light at the end of the dark tunnel. It doesn’t just identify the issues but shows some of the good things (no spoilers) that are currently happening to help those now suffering.

Information is easy to understand in “The Unseen Crisis.” (NTD Productions/The Epoch Times)

People such as Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory (co-founders of Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance), Dr. Robert Malone (mRNA vaccine pioneer), and Dr. Peter McCullough (Chief Scientific Officer of The Wellness Company) have stepped forward to help. As a result, however, the doctors have either been ostracized, ignored, or vilified for revealing concerns about the vaccines, their pharmaceutical company creators, and much of the medical industrial complex as a whole.

“The Unseen Crisis” is a well-researched documentary that moves at a brisk pace. Yet it takes complex information and skillfully manages to dispense it in an easy-to-understand fashion—thanks in no small part to Ms. Drukier’s excellent writing, filmmaking, and research abilities.

The film’s illuminating whistleblower testimony, interviews with the vaccine injured, and additional information supplied by medical experts will provide viewers an enlightening experience and one that may linger in their minds awhile.

"The Unseen Crisis" is written and directed by Ms. Cindy Drukier. (NTD Productions/The Epoch Times)

“The Unseen Crisis” will be shown at the Festival of Cinema NYC on Aug. 8 at 8:30 p.m. and is available on Epoch TV. 

‘The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told’ Documentary Director: Cindy Drukier MPAA Rating: Not Rated Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Release Date: May 19, 2023 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars