A Voice for the Vax-Injured

Angela Wulbrecht, a registered nurse and advocate for the vaccine-injured, in New York on Aug. 8, 2023. Otabius Williams/The Epoch Times

In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek and Angela Wulbrecht discuss the devastating and sometimes deadly consequences of the COVID vaccines on certain recipients. A nurse for over two decades, Ms. Wulbrecht suffered a life-threatening response to the vaccine. Today, she works for the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, where she advocates for injured patients. She also appears in the new documentary, “The Unseen Crisis.”

Jan Jekielek: You’re one of the stars of “The Unseen Crisis,” which is now screening at a New York City film festival. Let’s talk first about how you became a nurse.

Angela Wulbrecht: My mom is from the Seychelles Islands off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. My father was American, and I was born in the United States. When I was 8 years old, my father and I were in a car accident. I survived with a fractured vertebra, but my dad was killed instantly, and I was rushed to a children’s hospital. My mom wasn’t in the States at the time. I was terrified and alone, and devastated by my dad’s death, but these nurses decorated my room with balloons and teddy bears, and loved me, and got me through the most tragic time of my life. So even then, I decided I wanted to become a nurse, to give back what they had given me—this incredible gift of love and compassion.

My mom had no family in the United States. She decided to go home and be closer to her family, and we returned to the Seychelles. After high school, I went to nursing school in the United States. Once I graduated, I started working as a labor and delivery nurse. I loved helping women at one of the most beautiful times of their lives. Within a year, I pretty much was a charge nurse for the Department of Women, Infants, and Children.

Mr. Jekielek: Let’s fast-forward to when you worked in a hospital in Sonoma, California.

Ms. Wulbrecht: When the pandemic hit, everything shut down. My daughter had to be homeschooled. I took it all really seriously. When the government told us this was bad, I believed them. When they said the vaccines were safe and effective, I believed them and rushed to get my vaccine. Within 12 minutes of getting it, I was on the ground.

At first, I thought I was having an anaphylactic reaction. The paramedics took my vitals, which were extremely unstable. My blood pressure was so high I could have stroked out. I was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

That was the first of five 911 calls and five hospitalizations. Those first weeks I was at the doctor’s office every day if I wasn’t in the hospital. I was fortunate because I was valued in the medical community where I worked. They were eager to take care of me. This was also early on when only medical staff could get the vaccine, so they did all sorts of tests to figure out what was going on. Three or four different cardiologists plus other doctors worked on me.

I was still pro-vaccine. I looked at it as similar to giving penicillin to me, because I’m allergic to penicillin. So I was encouraging people to get it to protect each other.

Mr. Jekielek: Then you appeared in the media.

Ms. Wulbrecht: Kaiser News interviewed me to share my story. By that point, I’d started to learn of others getting injured and how they weren’t being properly cared for. My goal in this interview was to highlight that. After the article hit other major newspapers, I started to realize thousands and thousands of other people were having vaccine reactions. People who were injured would ask online, “Are there any vaccine injuries out there?” My name would pop up, my number wasn’t blocked, and they could find me.

Then I was invited, along with others, to speak to the CDC [Centers for Disease Control & Prevention] and the FDA [U.S. Food & Drug Administration]. I was happy we could present our evidence to them.

They listened, gave us their email, and told us we would have a follow-up meeting. We never heard back from them. I emailed multiple times but never heard from them.

I thought, “If the CDC and the FDA won’t listen, the NIH [National Institutes for Health] will, because they’re doctors. We’re in this together.”

I sent Dr. Nath, the head of neurology at the NIH, my hospital credentials and asked for his help. He was wonderful. I emailed him cases of vaccine injuries, and he would reply right away.

In one email, I asked him to look at data compiled by Steve Kirsch. His response was this generic email saying they didn’t treat vaccine injuries and that if I had further questions to look at the CDC website. That was the gist of it.

At that point, I realized my perception of these people putting health and safety first hadn’t been true. Greed, money, and power came first.

So I joined the VSRF team, founded by Steve Kirsch. It lit a fire in me. We were a team. None of us had a background in event planning and media, but we were passionate about caring for people.

Mr. Jekielek: A silver lining of the whole recent madness is meeting some really principled people, which I’m grateful for.

Ms. Wulbrecht: “The Unseen Crisis” filmed by Cindy [Drukier] of NTD News and The Epoch Times reveals who the vaccine injured are, and I hope doctors will watch it. The whole crew was wonderful. I felt like I was with family.

If I’m never allowed to work in another hospital again for speaking out, for helping the helpless, that’s okay. I went into this to do my duty and to protect patients first. I want help and compensation for all the vaccine injured. That’s my goal.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.