Maddie's Story

Larry A. Law

Stephanie de Garay allowed her three children to sign up for the trial of the new Pfizer COVID-19 shot. She believed in vaccines. Her daughter, Maddie de Garay, was 12 years old and her good friend had already signed up for the trial. The $119 per visit monetary compensation was an incentive too. Maddie loved to dance and play soccer, but that all changed when she suffered a severe adverse reaction from her second dose of the shot. She struggled through 11 Emergency Room (ER) visits and four hospital admissions during the next 18 months. Injuries from the shot have left her unable to walk or eat. She has to use a feeding tube and suffers constant pain, vision problems, tinnitus, allergic reactions, and lack of neck control. If that were not enough, the medical system has continually dismissed her case, labeling her health problems as psychological. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Pfizer, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the medical system have never offered one iota of help, choosing to ignore her situation and her family's trauma and financial burden. See her story here as told on The Highwire.  

Maddie's Journey

Maddie received her first experimental jab on December 30, 2020. She had a fever and her arm swelled. Her second jab was January 20, 2021. The Pfizer questionnaire after each shot only had questions to which the answer was "yes" or "no"—there was no place for comments. Maddie barely made it through school the next day and said she didn't feel right. Once home, Maddie began screaming in pain that her heart felt like it was going to be ripped out through her neck. A trip to the ER was no help as doctors felt it was a reaction to the shot, but that it would get better in time. Even though Maddie was part of a high-profile ongoing clinical trial, Pfizer never contacted her and Maddie's heart pain was never addressed. On January 23, 2021 Maddie's symptoms continued to worsen. She was exhibiting severe body pain, nausea, diarrhea, and extreme fatigue. Her family took her to the ER three times that week before she was finally admitted to the hospital. Instead of doing medical tests, the hospital sent in psychologists and social workers to focus on her mental health. Eventually, Pfizer listed "her traumatic systemic adverse reaction as 'functional abdominal pain' when reporting trial results to the FDA. A day before Pfizer submitted their request for emergency approval for the COVID vaccine for 12-15-year-olds and before necessary testing was done, they put Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) as a diagnosis on her chart." Doctors continued to deny that her illness had anything to do with the vaccine.

Stuck in a Nightmare

On February 19, 2021, Maddie fainted and, when she revived, she couldn't remember her birthday or her friend's names. During her second hospital stay, Maddie woke up from an MRI and fell to the floor, unable to stand. She has not been able to walk since that time. Convulsions and seizures became the norm. Since Maddie was not making physical progress, the hospital transferred her to a mental institution. However, after the family saw the conditions there, they opted to bring her home. The de Garays felt like they were medically blacklisted and everything was done to cover up for Pfizer. After a year and a half, with the help of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and React 19, nonprofit organizations that offer support for those suffering from long-term COVID-19 shot adverse events, they found doctors willing to conduct the proper tests. These doctors diagnosed Maddie's vaccine reaction properly and unequivocally stated it was due to the Pfizer vaccine.  

Pfizer Classifies Severe Reactions as "Not Related" to Shots

The FDA and Pfizer attempted to hide the COVID-19 clinical trial shot data for 75 years! Fortunately, the FDA was sued and ordered by the courts to release the data much sooner. 80,000 pages of documents were released on June 1, 2022 and these revealed that deaths and severe adverse events took place during the Phase 3 trials. However, Pfizer made it a habit to categorize all of these severe adverse events (SAEs) as being "not related" to the vaccine. After Maddie's ICAN legal team got her records, they sent a letter in October 2021 to the FDA and highlighted how Pfizer had downplayed her condition, describing Pfizer's move as "at best dishonest. To regulators, it should be criminal." 

In February 2022, the FDA finally responded, recommending filing a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) report. Since the FDA does not monitor VAERS, this was a slap on the face to Maddie's family. Maddie's story is ongoing and her legal team continues to try to hold the government accountable. The sad thing is that many thousands of people have died or been injured by these shots. We need to share her story and let the world know about the corrupt behavior of our medical system. After years of pandemic cover-up for the pharmaceutical industry, The New York Times, in May 2024, finally published an article admitting numerous COVID-19 vaccine injuries actually exist. For Maddie and thousands of other victims, we can only hope that the truth is finally, even if slowly, getting out to the public!

A great new movie documenting Maddie's experience and issues surrounding the COVID pandemic is called Unsafe and Ineffective. You can watch it for free by clicking here and putting in your name and email.