Port Adelaide Enfield Mayor Claire Boan claims she had bad reaction to Covid vaccine, feared death

An Adelaide mayor has told an anti-vax podcast of what she says was a severe reaction to the Pfizer Covid vaccine, saying she thought she would die.

Port Adelaide Enfield Mayor Claire Boan has taken to an anti-vax podcast to tell listeners she will not have any more jabs and neither will her children, after she claimed to have experienced side effects.

Ms Boan was a guest on the Prison Colony Resistance podcast, aptly shortened to PCR podcast that is described as “where you come to get a PCR test for Truth” and encourages listeners to “Resist. Live free. Do not comply.”

As a guest, Ms Boan recounted her experience dealing with dizzy spells, brain fog, anxiety, heightened emotions and increased burping which, she said, was a result of the vaccine.

But it wasn’t until she started to feel faint while driving that Ms Boan start to become concerned.
“I don’t know how I survived,” she said on the podcast.

She continued to have dizzy moments but attributed it to stress.

After receiving her second vaccine dose at a “stupid pop-up”, Ms Boan recalled feeling a lot more emotional than she was used to.

“I started crying at work,” she said.

She decided to go to a GP who sent her straight to the hospital emergency department.

Ms Boan said a triage nurse told her “This is Pfizer; we’re getting it all the time.”

Ms Boan said she had a D-dimer test for micro blood clots, a chest X-ray that came back normal, and an ECG that was abnormal but dismissed.

Ms Boan said doctors told her that her symptoms were an immune response to the vaccine, but they refused to acknowledge that technically.

Port Adelaide Enfield mayor Claire Boan says she had adverse reactions to the Pfizer vaccine. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

She claimed she later became fatigued, and hardly able walk from the couch to her bed.

“I was laying in bed, my pulse was really weak, and I thought ‘This is the end’,” she said.

“I was saying goodbye to my family, my kids, my husband, my Mum and Dad.”

Paramedics said that everything was fine, but Ms Boan demanded they take to hospital.

After admitting her and running tests, everything came back normal.

Ms Boan reported her symptoms to both Therapeutic Goods Administration and SA Health.

Now, Ms Boan said she struggle with memory loss and finds it difficult to hold conversations – but is on the mend.

She reached out to private cardiologists and received a diagnosis of pericarditis, a mild heart condition.

“It’s a huge trauma to have to work through,” she said.

Ms Boan said she experienced constant anxiety, thinking she was going to die.

She regretted having the vaccine, saying the campaign to vaccinate Australia was “pure fear propaganda”.

Ms Boan told The Advertiser that she was aware that she had influence, especially in her community of Port Adelaide Enfield, but stresses that she was “giving people the opportunity to hear my story”.

She said she was “definitely against the (vaccine) mandate”.

Health Minister, Chris Picton said “Covid vaccinations have been through a rigorous national expert assessment process to ensure that they are safe and effective.

“The fact that over 93 per cent of South Australians over 12 have rolled up to be vaccinated has had a dramatic impact on reducing the hospitalisation and mortality rate despite the high number of cases we have seen.”

BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY

The Covid-19 vaccine rollout is safe, authorities say, as figures show only a tiny fraction of jab patients suffered minor side effects but are more likely to die without a vaccination. Federal data shows just two people for every 1000 coronavirus jab patients suffered any sort of negative side effects sincethe vaccine program launched on February 22 last year.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration, the Commonwealth medical regulator, found 11 Australian patients who’s cause of deathwas linked to vaccination from 819 reviews.

The TGA said the deaths occurred after the first dose of Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca).

Eight were from thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) cases – blood clots – two were linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome(GBS) – a rare neurological disorder – and one was a case of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) – excessive bruising and bleeding.

Latest figures shows 121,027 “adverse” events were reported to the TGA between February 22 last year and April 10.

Over that same time period 56,923,565 doses have been administered across the country.

The TGA said the most frequently reported side effects included injection-site reactions, such as a sore arm.

Other more “general symptoms include headaches, muscle pain, fever and chills, which authorities say was reflected in theclinical trials.

A TGA spokesman said protecting patients was rigorous. “This is the most intensive safety monitoring ever conducted of anyvaccines in Australia,” he said.

“Vaccination against Covid-19 is the most effective way to reduce deaths and severe illness from infection.

“The protective benefits of vaccination continue to far outweigh the potential risks. Like all medicines, Covid-19 vaccinesmay cause some side effects.

Chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier has revealed new state data that showed the unvaccinated “have triplethe chance of dying”.

SA Health figures show 50 tripled-boosted patients died per 100,000 people, compared to 114.61 for double-dosed and 159.71for the unvaccinated.

“Our local SA data shows that adults who are triple vaccinated have the most protection against severe impacts of Covid-19,” she said.