Young Woman with Blood Disorder Develops Painful Severe Reaction to Multiple Vaccinations

A 23-year-old woman being treated for a rare autoimmune blood disorder at UCI Medical Center in Orange, California earlier this month report suffered a severe reaction after receiving multiple vaccines for tetanus, pneumococcal and meningitis at the hospital. Alexis Lorenze, who in January 2024 was diagnosed with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH), went to UCI Medical Center to receive a blood transfusion for the disease. Reportedly, her doctors told her that for the transfusion to fully work she needed to be up to date with vaccinations.^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

Lorenze, who apparently had not received any vaccines since she was a child, reportedly developed temporary blindness and locked jaw and began vomiting within 10 minutes after being injected with the vaccines. On Sept. 15, she posted videos of herself online showing her with swollen eyes and forehead, severe black-purplish bruising covering her face and body, and red, inflamed skin^{2 8} and said:

The hospital gave me something that is making my face react like this. It’s on my neck. It’s on my face, on my forehead. I am here trying to spread awareness of what is happening to me. I’m really scared, and everything in my body hurts. Please, TikTok. Please, help me, give me advice, spread this video in case this gets worse. The medical world needs to see this, please. … All they wanna do is inject me with more stuff, and I keep refusing. Because I don’t know what’s happening, and I don’t trust them.²⁵

According to Lorenze, since the vaccinations she has been suffering from burning and itchy eyes and has been unable to lower her neck. She said that the hospital staff has been trying to relieve her pain by giving her more opioids and other drugs. She is currently on “morphine, dilated, oxycodone, benedryl, and gabapentin.”²

Lorenze’s father, Todd Lorenze, said his daughter was UCI Medical Center’s intensive care unit (ICU). On Sept. 17, he posted on Facebook that Alexis would be transferred to a private hospital in Los Angeles for “specialized treatment.”^{4 6}

In response to Lorenze’s worsening condition, the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF) has sent a registered nurse, Angela Wulbrecht, and a team of doctors to assist with her care. Lorenze, who is a resident of Florida, does not have health insurance in California. The VSRF is a non-profit organization founded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Steven Kirsch. Its mission is to “advance COVID-19 vaccine safety through scientific research, public education, and advocacy, and to support the vaccine injured.”^{6 7 8 10}

Tetanus, Pneumococcal and Meningitis Vaccines in U.S.

The tetanus vaccine in the United States is only available as a combination vaccine, which includes DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis), Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis), and Td (tetanus and diphtheria), which means that Lorenze may have also received vaccines for diphtheria and pertussis. There are four types of pneumococcal vaccines licensed in the U.S. These include three pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) and one pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV). There are three kinds of vaccines available in the U.S. for meningitis: MenACWY (meningococcal conjugate), MenB (serogroup B meningococcal) and MenABCWY (pentavalent).^{11 12 13}

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