Kerryn Phelps reveals why 'doctors can't speak out' about adverse reactions to the Covid vaccine - after revealing she and her wife suffered 'devastating' injuries from jab
Dr Kerryn Phelps and her wife Jackie suffered adverse reactions to Covid jab
Both suffered symptoms for months after receiving their Pfizer vaccinations
Dr Phelps said medics didn't want to speak out about adverse reactions
She said medical authority had warned staff not to undermine vaccine rollout
A top doctor who suffered adverse reactions to the Covid jab has claimed many of her colleagues who saw similar side-effects felt they could not speak out for fear of being labelled anti-vaxxers.
Dr Kerryn Phelps, the one-time president of the Australian Medical Association, said in a submission to a Senate inquiry on the Long Covid phenomenon that medical profession regulators had censored any public comments raising questions about the safety of Covid jabs.
Dr Phelps said both she and her wife Jackie Stricker-Phelps became severely ill after getting a Pfizer vaccine.
Ms Stricker-Phelps suffered numbness in her hands and feet 'within minutes' of receiving her jab, and was in so much pain she felt like her head was going to 'explode'.
Dr Phelps, also a former federal MP, suffered irregular blood pressure and fevers after the jab, and both she and her wife exp
The medic said she had spoken to a number of healthcare professionals and patients who also had experienced 'vaccine adverse events'.
'Quite a number of doctors I've spoken to have felt impeded about speaking out about their concerns about vaccine adverse events,' she told The Today Show on Wednesday morning.
'Because of the statement made by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) that doctors shouldn't say anything that was going to impede the government's vaccine rollout, and they took that to mean not to publicly raise their concerns.'
In March, 2021, doctors were advised by AHPRA and national medical boards to not 'undermine' the national vaccine rollout.
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