More Fatal Myocarditis Cases in NZ: The Questions That Remain Unasked and Unanswered
Below we have examined yet more cases of fatal myocarditis in New Zealand since 2021. In most of these cases the coroner does not appear to have asked the obvious questions.
In making the point yet again that these cases are poorly assessed, we note that far more people get pericarditis and myocarditis than go on to die suddenly from it. Are all these people similarly diverted from understanding a likely cause? Certainly not the many hundreds whose vaccine causation is accepted by ACC. But what about those who never know to make a claim, or who are turned down as they haven’t waited up to 2 years for a cardiac MRI?
Watch: Ashley Bloomfield Announcing Myocarditis 21 July 2021
We are aware that sudden death from myocarditis happened prior to covid, often ‘presumed viral’ but with no virus documented.
However, a provisionally-consented (due to absent safety information) genetic intervention, acknowledged to be a cause of myocarditis, was introduced into the population in 2021.
(Un)common sense suggests it should be on the list of things to consider when determining what caused someone’s death. And we know there is a long queue for coronial investigations of deaths which are now years ago. And these delays have been the reason given too for refusing to release up to date cancer death figures we have been chasing.
In some of the cases below the person is said to have died from myocarditis caused by covid infection, but if they have previously been vaccinated how is it ascertained whether it was vaccination, infection or both? We know how this could be done, but such testing is not accessed in NZ.
The information below comes from NZ coroner (lawyer) reports. We have not seen post-mortem (doctor) reports for these people and it is possible there is further relevant information contained in them. However, for deaths reported to the coroner, the coroner’s report is the official public record noting a person’s cause of death.
Case 1:
A 42 yr old woman, working in the mandated education field was found dead at home after she failed to respond to phone calls in early 2022. In this case the pathologist and coroner have commented on covid vaccinations noting she had had three covid vaccinations.
The coroner documented that the cause of death was acute lymphocytic myocarditis and that it “may be idiopathic, or due to viral, fungal or bacterial infection, or autoimmune or hypersensitivity disorders”.
The pathologist noted that, “given the time since administration of COVID vaccination doses (13 July 2021, 3 August 2021, and 23 January 2022), and given it is a lymphocytic myocarditis (not the eosinophilic myocarditis seen in vaccine-related myocarditis), the development of myocarditis in this case is not related to vaccination”.
Really?? How did she determine that? What did cause the myocarditis then? Sudden death following silent myocarditis CAN happen months or even years later. And various immune cells can predominate in inflamed tissues. In medical speak, idiopathic means “just one of those things”. But there is ALWAYS an explanation for sudden death, if you look hard enough and consider all information.
By the time she died, all four of the New Zealanders who have officially been recognised as being killed by the covid vaccination were dead. Only one of these deaths was from eosinophilic myocarditis (eosinophils and lymphocytes are different types of white blood cells found in inflammation), and that was the first recognised death – a 57 yr old lady whose case was written up in a medical journal.
Rory Nairn died from myocarditis, the 13 yr old Wellington boy from acute lymphocytic myocarditis and Amanda Smees from myocarditis in the post vaccination period.
Was her death reported to CARM?
Did the Independent Safety Monitoring Board (ISMB) review her case and undertake a formal causality assessment? What was the outcome?
Or was the pathologist’s declaration sufficient? If so, is the pathologist trained in pharmacovigilance?
Where does the responsibility lie – with the pathologist, the coroner, CARM, ISMB, GP, ACC, someone else?
Should the mandating institution bear any responsibility if her death was due to covid vaccination?
Curiously Coroner R Kay was the coroner responsible for determining cause of death for the teen who we say died of post-vaccine acute lymphocytic myocarditis. The coroner said he couldn’t rule it out. The pathologist’s opinion is odd in this case – that lymphocytic myocarditis does not occur post covid vaccination!
So many questions, incorrect evidence, and no-one to answer.
Case 2:
A previously healthy 33 yr old Fijian-Indian healthcare worker (presumably subject to covid vaccine mandates) collapsed suddenly at a party in early 2022. She was resuscitated sufficiently to get to hospital. However, she died 5 days later and post mortem examination showed myocarditis as well as a small focus of inflammation in the brain (encephalitis).
The coroner, despite noting that myocarditis “is usually viral in origin, but it can also be due to drugs, other infections, autoimmune diseases etc.”, has not recorded consideration of a particular drug known to cause myocarditis (i.e. covid vaccination).
The pathologist concluded that this person had “a subclinical viral infection” but the coroner has not documented evidence of any particular virus. Her family was referred to the Cardiac Inherited Diseases Group (CIDG) for assessment but no outcome from that assessment is included in the coroner report.
Cause of death:
• Hypoxic/ischaemic encephalopathy (brain damage due to lack of oxygen)
• Myocarditis (presumed viral)
This lady had inflammation in two critical organs. The late German pathologist Dr Arne Burkhardt provided second opinion post mortem findings for family members who were concerned that covid vaccination was involved in a loved one’s death. He discussed some of his findings prior to his death in 2023. Of relevance to this case, he described finding inflammation and vasculitis in most of the brain samples he examined but said often it was subtle and could easily be missed if not specifically looked for.
Did anyone ask the appropriate questions?
Watch: Dr Arne Burkhardt Discussing Brain Inflammation
Case 3:
In mid 2022 a 45 yr old went surfing but told a friend he was not feeling well as he came out of the ocean. He went to his vehicle and collapsed. Prompt resucitation failed. He had had ‘cold’ symptoms the week prior but had not tested for covid.
He worked in a mandated school setting. The coroner noted he had received his last covid vaccination in 2021.
On post mortem examination, the pathologist found both lymphocytic myocarditis and lymphocytic aortitis (inflammation of the aorta which is the large artery in the chest and abdomen). The pathologist noted that this combination was well-described in the case of covid-19 infection. He did not mention that they are also both well recognised adverse effects of covid vaccination.
A post-mortem PCR test for covid-19 was negative.
(Toxicology was negative for relevant drugs).
The coroner accepted the pathologist’s explanation that a negative covid PCR test did not exclude covid-19 infection contributing to the death “because the myocarditis identified was a late event which could occur days to weeks after the onset of infection and is an autoimmune phenomenon”.
Official cause of death:
• Lymphocytic myocarditis
• Recent COVID-19 infection
More relevant and likely, myocarditis and aortitis are both autoimmune and/or inflammatory phenomena that follow covid vaccination!
How long can the Pfizer mRNA persist in an individual person? How long can the spike protein get produced for? How long can the spike protein persist? Peer-reviewed research has answered: up to YEARS.
Are the risks of infection following previous vaccination cumulative i.e. following two vaccines, does a covid infection equal a third dose of spike protein?
It is our view that covid vaccination is much more likely to be the cause of death than an unproven covid infection. This is another case where more than one organ has been affected.
It remains essential to ask: was this death referred to CARM and the ISMB? Did a pharmacovigilance expert do a causality assessment?
Should an ACC claim be made for vaccine failure? We were all advised that covid vaccination would stop us getting sick and stop us dying! It was approved to PREVENT covid-19. This man may have had his life prevented yet his cause of death is supposedly due adverse effects from covid infection.
Watch: Ardern Announcing, “You Won’t Get Sick and You Won’t Die”
Case 4:
IA 22 yr old young man collapsed in early 2023 while out deer-stalking with friends. He was unable to be resuscitated.
His cause of death is recorded as sudden cardiac death with features of cardiomyopathy and myocarditis.
In the brief report there is no documentation of covid vaccination or infection status or cause of myocarditis.
Had he received covid vaccines, which dates, which batch number(s)?
Was his death reported to CARM? Has anyone done a causality assessment?
Did anyone ask the relevant questions?
Case 5:
A 21 yr old young woman died suddenly at work in late 2023. She had recently seen her GP for migraine headaches, dermatitis, anxiety, tremors, sweaty hands, and a random racing heart. Post mortem showed changes in the lungs and heart consistent with a recent viral infection that had involved the heart. However, no virus was identified in the coroner report. Myocarditis was widespread, which could cause death through the generation of a cardiac arrhythmia.
There was no underlying genetic condition on testing.
Cause of death: lymphocytic myocarditis.
We don’t know if she had received covid vaccination(s) but the list of complaints she had seen her GP with certainly sounds similar to what many other vaccine-injured Kiwis are experiencing.
Did anyone ask whether she had received covid vaccinations. If so, how many, when, what batch numbers?
Has anyone done a causality assessment?
Case 6:
A 44 yr old caregiver (so possibly mandated) died in her sleep in early 2025. Her health had been deteriorating for a few months prior, and she was awaiting an urgent neurological appointment. She had lost all the strength in her legs on the day before her death.
A post mortem examination determined that she experienced sudden cardiac death due to myocarditis (lymphocytic). However, features of motor neuron disease were also present which would explain her worsening neurological symptoms.
This is another unusual case – with two separate serious diagnoses in a relatively young woman. Covid vaccination could provide a single causative factor with its delivery to the heart and nervous system and propensity for causing autoimmune disease. No mention of this possibility in the coroner’s report.
Once again did anyone consider what might have caused these two conditions and exclude the obvious?
Do You See a Pattern Here?
As previously noted, we are more than disappointed and concerned by officials apparently looking the other way. In fact we are outraged at the shonkily explained loss of life and the derelict job these poor families are getting.
We have been unable to get answers. It is up to each and every New Zealander who can smell a rat to ask questions at every opportunity and demand change in the system.
