NSW Covid vaccine: Daily Telegraph journalist in hospital after Pfizer jab

A rare heart condition put Georgia Clark in the hospital after she got the Pfizer vaccine - but here’s why she says others should still get the jab.

Daily Telegraph journalist Georgia Clark is making an impassioned plea from her hospital bed for Australians to get vaccinated despite suffering from a rare condition as a result of her own Pfizer jab.

The 27-year-old has spent the past two nights in Concord Hospital’s heart ward after suffering from pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart.

The condition, along with Myocarditis, strikes one in 74,000 people who receive the Pfizer vaccine, more rare than the deadly blood clots from AstraZeneca.

In hospital, with sharp chest pain and a fever, Mrs Clark is still calling on people to line up and be vaccinated.

Daily Telegraph journalist Georgia Clark in hospital after developing a rare heart inflammation linked to the Pfizer vaccine.

“We are in the greatest fight of our lives right now and we have to make sacrifices, if that means a bit of chest pain and a couple nights in hospital, it is worth it to save lives and unlock the key to freedom,” she said.

Mrs Clark normally exercises up to five times a week, eats healthily and has no family history of heart conditions. She was vaccinated with Pfizer on July 3 and within days started to get a headache and feel rundown.

She received the second jab on July 25 and on August 4 after feeling a sudden chest pain on the left side of her body she visited an emergency ward only to be sent home.

The pain continued over the next four days and a fever developed.

Results showed she had developed an inflammation of the pericardium on the outside of the heart caused by Pfizer.

“At Concord Hospital you see Covid patients and they are in glass boxes,” she said.

“When a Covid case comes in they say red alert over the loud speaker, the whole hospital has to stand still so no one contracts the virus.

“And then speaking to the nurses you hear of healthy gym junkies in their 20s who can’t breathe without ventilators or they would be dead and a nurse who has contracted Covid and has permanent lung and heart damage

“If this is what the vaccine has done to me, who knows what would happen if I actually caught Covid, I could die.

“Hearing about that has inspired me to speak out, because I know this is nowhere near as bad as catching Covid.”