A high-profile Australian academic made disturbing claims about the Covid vaccine shortly before she died after a long battle with illness.
Professor Gemma Carey, once the director of the Centre for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales, died on November 17.
Just two months earlier, she alleged in one of her final messages on X that the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine had nearly killed her and taken years off her life.
"For 3+ years now I have been professionally and personally expected to defend a medical intervention that nearly cost me my life, and caused suffering beyond what I thought the human body was capable of enduring or experiencing," Prof Carey wrote.
"I have personally read 1000 case reports of people injured or killed, and 40 released under FOI from the TGA that included child deaths from heart attacks," she continued. "I believe we are past a point we should be using these vaccines. They do not prevent infection, the harms are significant and we have no concrete reliable data on the frequency of those harms."
"If we don't stop now, we will face serious regrets in the future about the damage we allowed to happen from this point onwards in the pandemic. So no, you won't see me publicly supporting the thing that stole years of my life anymore."
Australian Professor Gemma Carey, a passionate advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, died after a battle with illness.
Prof Carey's family have not confirmed that the Covid vaccine had anything to do with her death, telling Daily Mail Australia only that she had died 'after a long battle with illness'.
On Tuesday, Senator Gerard Rennick gave his condolences to Prof Carey's family and claimed that she 'suffered from a Covid vaccine injury'.
"Gemma was a strong advocate for improving the vaccine injury scheme," Senator Rennick wrote.
Prof Carey suffered a serious injury from receiving the Covid vaccine in May 2021. Guillain-Barre Syndrome is an autoimmune disease that can cause paralysis in extreme cases. She told newsletter Crikey that the jab left her suffering 'functional stroke' symptoms.
Her gruelling rehab process involved relearning how to read, write and talk while on leave from her job. In January 2022, Prof Carey said she was desperately waiting for approval for Novavax to allow her to continue her course of Covid vaccines.
'Every fine nerve fibre in my body became inflamed,' Professor Carey told The Sydney Morning Herald. 'It was excruciating. I was in acute care for quite a while.'
Earlier this month, medical researcher Joshua Leisk claimed in a now-deleted post on X that Prof Carey could be suffering from long Covid. He claimed Prof Carey was 'terrified of getting Covid'. Her family attempted to lead a Covid-free lifestyle.
"In complete despair...she reached out...for information on voluntary assisted dying," Mr Leisk said.
He noted she'd previously battled severe staph infections leading into septicemia.