It's unknown whether blood donated by
people who've received mRNA COVID-19 shots poses a risk to those who
receive it. A growing number of people aren't willing to take any
chances, however, and are requesting blood that comes from unvaccinated
patients. One high-profile case involves a 4-month-old baby, Will
Savage-Reeves, in New Zealand, who needs surgery for a heart valve
disorder.
His parents, Samantha and Cole, requested the infant receive blood
only from donors who have not received COVID-19 shots. While
unvaccinated blood is available, the doctors and hospital refused to
grant the request. The case was heard before a New Zealand court, which
sided with the doctors and took guardianship of the child to proceed
with the surgery using vaccinated blood.1,2
Hospital Refuses Family's Request for Unvaccinated Blood
The outcome of baby Will's case may serve as a harbinger of things to
come. The hospital argued that the surgery should proceed using
unvaccinated blood because of the importance of finding a quality match.
A large pool of donor blood raises the possibility of finding the
highest quality match.
In addition, according to Steve Kirsch, executive director of the
Vaccine Safety Research Foundation, another of their arguments is, "If
there were a safety signal from using vaccinated blood for transfusions,
it would have surfaced by now." They also want to keep up appearances,
and allowing one patient to use unvaccinated blood may open the
floodgates to others requesting the same. Kirsch noted:3
"If they agree to use
unvaccinated blood, it could be interpreted as an admission that
vaccinated blood is not safe and could lead to everyone requesting
unvaccinated blood which would then create severe blood shortages for a
dubious benefit."
Further, the New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) manages blood donations
and collections in New Zealand. Only a specialist doctor can request
directed donation for the baby to received unvaccinated blood.
But, Kirsch noted, "The clinicians responsible for the surgery
determined that there was insufficient evidence to make a special
request … The hospital cannot compel the NZBS to do what it says, e.g.,
even if the doctors agreed with the parents, NZBS can still refuse to
supply the blood if it doesn't think the request is justified."4
The hospital also claimed mRNA shots "to date remain safe."5
According to Kirsch, "The court, lacking the legal and technical
ability to second guess the doctors, therefore sided with the expert
opinion of the doctors."6
The media, meanwhile, are painting the reasonable request to honor
the precautionary principle as a conspiracy theory and disinformation
dreamed up by fringe "anti-vaxxers." Case in point, The New York Times
reported:7
"The case, and the family's flawed scientific arguments,
highlight the continuing dangers of online misinformation and
conspiracist narratives, experts say. The dispute has 'become a cause
célèbre in the most toxic way,' prompting a spike in hate speech on
fringe platforms where conspiracy theories run rife, said Sanjana
Hattotuwa, a researcher at the Disinformation Project, a New Zealand
monitoring group."
Not only did the New Zealand health service refuse the family's
request, but New Zealand's High Court granted two doctors authority to
make medical decisions regarding baby Will.8 It didn't need to go this far, supporters have stated, since there is ready availability of blood from unvaccinated donors.9
In a similar case in Italy, however, a judge also ruled against
parents who requested blood transfusions only from unvaccinated donors
be used during their 2-year-old son's heart surgery.10
Embalmers Find Unusual Clots in Veins Post-Shots
Richard Hirschman, a board-certified embalmer and funeral director
with more than 20 years of experience, has come forward stating that, in
the time period since COVID-19 shots were rolled out, starting around
the middle of 2021, he's been finding "strange clots" in the bodies of
the deceased.
"When I do the embalming, I have to go into the vein. And in order
for the embalming process, I have to allow blood to be drained. So I
actually pulled this huge, long clot — fibrous looking clot — out prior
to an embalming," Hirschman said.11
The beginning of the clot, which resembles a white, rubbery worm,
appears red and like a normal clot. But the majority of the clot is
different: It's composed of a white, fibrous material. "It just isn't
normal," he said, adding:12
"Typically, a blood clot is smooth; it's blood that has
coagulated together. But when you squeeze it, or touch it or try to pick
it up, it generally falls apart … you can almost squeeze it between
your fingers and get it back to blood again. But this white fibrous
stuff is pretty strong. It's not weak at all. You can manipulate it,
it's very pliable. It's not hard … it is not normal. I don't know how
anybody can live with something like this inside of them."
What's important to note is embalmers have reported finding unusual
clots not only in deceased people who've received the shots but also in
those who have had a blood transfusion. So while we don't know what risk
there is from receiving blood from someone who's had COVID-19 shots,
"the risk is not zero," Kirsch said.13
Another case involves a baby, Alexander, who received a vaccinated
blood transfusion and developed "an enormous clot that eventually
stretched from his left knee, all the way to his heart," and died.14 According to Kirsch, the hospital then went on to delete all related medical records:15
"Sacred Heart Hospital in Washington State has erased all records
of the death of baby Alex who died from a blood clot after receiving a
transfusion from a vaccinated patient. So there is no evidence of a
problem anymore. They erased it, just like the CDC erased all data
linking vaccines and autism. This is how science works nowadays."
Is the Blood Supply Safe? Nobody Knows
In the U.S., a person is in need of blood every two seconds.16
If you have a medical emergency, getting a blood transfusion can be
life-saving. But should patients have the option of choosing to receive
blood that hasn't been exposed to mRNA COVID-19 shots?
The Red Cross states they're following the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration's blood donation eligibility guidance, which states, "In
most cases, there is no deferral time for individuals who received a
COVID-19 vaccine as long as they are symptom-free and feeling well at
the time of donation."17
"While the antibodies that are produced by the stimulated immune
system in response to vaccination are found throughout the bloodstream,
the actual vaccine components are not," Jessa Merrill, Red Cross
director of biomedical communications, told The Daily Beast.18 Further, after speaking to Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist, internist and epidemiologist, Kirsch reported:19
"He said he'd take the vaccinated blood because of the critical
nature of the matching process. With donor blood, the match quality
would not be as good because there is a smaller pool to draw from, and
it's not just blood type that is matched.
Nobody has quantified the risk of using vaccinated blood. He said
if the risk were high, it would have been noticed by now (I'm not sure I
agree with that; there is a lot of willful blindness for anything
associated with the vaccine)."
Many Contracted AIDS Via Tainted Blood Transfusions
Pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole compared the current unknowns regarding
"vaccinated blood" with HIV-tainted blood that was used for transfusions
in the 1980s:20
"We don't know. Nobody knows. I have clots from unvaccinated
deceased that were transfused and formed large clots post transfusion
and died. No blood bank is checking. 'One cannot find, that for which
they do not look.' This is akin to blood banks and hemophiliacs and HIV
in the 1980s. It may not be a problem.
However, it may be. There are assays academically available to
check for circulating spike protein. It is criminal negligence to not
assure the safety of the blood supply based on bureaucratic declarations
without scientific explorations."
Similarly, in January 1983, after the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention revealed evidence strongly suggesting blood and
blood products transmitted AIDS and the disease was sexually
transmitted, it recommended blood banks directly question donors about
their sexual behavior and run blood donations through a series of
screening tests.21
The blood bank community issued a statement soon after, stating
"direct or indirect questions about a donor's sexual preference are
inappropriate" and not recommending any laboratory screening tests.22 As noted by Encyclopedia.com:23
"In fact, in the early years of the disease, many of the people
who contracted AIDS were infected through blood transfusions. Because it
took more than five years to develop a test to check for AIDS in blood
before it was used in a transfusion, many people got the disease in
hospitals.
The AIDS epidemic continued to grow in Africa and Asia during the
1990s and even in the early 21st century because many nations were slow
to adopt blood testing."
In the 1980s, increasing fears over tainted transfusions led many
people to say they'd refuse donated blood entirely. One man, whose wife
died of AIDS contracted through a contaminated transfusion, told the AP
in 1985, "You want to play Russian Roulette? Even if it were an
emergency — and I had some say in the matter — I wouldn't take blood out
of the pool."24
Now, decades later, doctors are hearing similar concerns from
patients regarding vaccinated blood. Dr. Davinder Sidhu, the division
head for transfusion and transplant medicine for southern Alberta,
Canada, told CTV News he gets requests for blood from unvaccinated
donors "at least once or twice a month over the last several months."25
Is it Your Right to Receive 'Unvaccinated' Blood?
As it stands, blood donation centers may ask about vaccines their donors have received,26
but it's not guaranteed that this information will be passed on to
consumers. The Red Cross also states, "If you've received a COVID-19
vaccine, you'll need to provide the manufacturer name when you come to
donate."27
Still, it's unlikely that most hospitals will readily divulge this
information when it comes to receiving a blood transfusion. So what are
your options if you're looking for blood from a donor that's hasn't
received a COVID-19 shot? Directed donations, in which a donor donates
blood for a specified receiver, are an option, but they're typically
only used in cases where matched blood is unavailable due to extremely
rare blood types.28
Autologous donations, or self-donation, is another option, in which
you donate blood for your own use, such as before a medical procedure
like surgery. In both cases, you'll need your doctor to submit a Red
Cross Special Collections Order form to complete an autologous or
directed blood donation.29
A "Safe Blood" donation campaign has also been formed to match blood
donors and recipients who have not had COVID-19 shots. For now, they're
acting as a resource to match donors with those in need of blood, but
the hope is that an mRNA-free blood bank will be established:30
"There is no blood bank with mRNA-free blood yet, not even with
us. And, although we have already asked hundreds of clinics, at the
moment — at least in Europe — all of them still refuse to allow the
human right of free blood choice with them — or at least do not want to
be mentioned, because otherwise they fear reprisals. However, we promise
you that we will not give up until we can offer a worldwide network of
such clinics."
As for baby Will, whose parents' hopes for an mRNA-free blood transfusion have been dashed, Kirsch said:31
"Whatever happened to the precautionary principle of medicine? In
my opinion, this isn't a close call. We can't know today if the blood
supply is safe because nobody wants to even ask the question and do the
experiments required to answer it. For that reason, Baby Will's parents'
request to use unvaccinated blood should be respected."