In an interview on CHD.TV’s “The People’s Testaments,” Dr. Joel Wallskog described how he was diagnosed with transverse myelitis after getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, and why he now devotes his time to helping others injured by the vaccine.
by Susan Olmstead
Dr. Joel Wallskog was once a successful orthopedic surgeon. A joint replacement specialist for 20 years, he had a large and busy practice in Wisconsin, where he saw almost 6,000 patients each year.
Married to his college sweetheart for almost 30 years and the father of four children, Wallskog had a “fantastic” life, he said. He enjoyed his career and balanced it with fun, active time with his family.
But the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination changed his life forever, Wallskog said. His health deteriorated rapidly and his career came to an end.
He recently told his story to Stephanie Locricchio, an advocacy liaison for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), on CHD.TV’s “The People‘s Testaments.”
In September 2020, Wallskog said, staff members in the clinic he referred patients to began coming down with COVID-19. He did not feel ill (“maybe in retrospect I had a runny nose for a couple days,” he said) but got an antibody test, which was positive.
When a close friend came down with COVID-19 and had to be intubated, Wallskog decided he should get vaccinated, despite his reservations.
“I was part of the healthcare system. I believed in the system,” he told Locricchio.
Still, Wallskog said, “I had some second thoughts. It just didn’t seem right. I just had COVID, I proved that I had antibodies … I had natural immunity. …But again, I was part of the system that I trusted.”
He received his vaccine through his employer, one of the 10 largest healthcare systems in the country. Despite this, when he got the shot, “there was no paperwork, there was no asking my history, there was no consent form, there was no anything,” he said.
About a week later, Wallskog’s feet became numb. Then he started getting “electrical sensations” down his legs when he bent his head forward. He compared the sensation to “putting your finger in an outlet.”
When he began having trouble standing, he ordered emergent MRIs and was found to have a lesion on his spinal cord.
A neurologist diagnosed transverse myelitis, a disorder caused by inflammation of the spinal cord. Myelin is the protective covering over the nerves, and without it, electrical impulses are not transmitted correctly, resulting in loss of feeling and mobility.
Wallskog noted that he was quickly diagnosed because he is a physician. “Being in the healthcare system, I can navigate the system like not many people can,” he said.
“That’s why I’m worried about so many [other people’s] injuries that are going to take months to get worked up. If the providers don’t know what to look for, [others] will maybe never get a diagnosis.”
Despite various treatments and rest, Wallskog suffers pain and numbness and is unable to stand long enough to perform surgery. His career came to an end in early 2021.
‘Look at the data yourself’
Wallskog said he is now embarrassed for his profession.
“I feel like I’ve been unblinded … like I got off the hamster wheel and I stopped drinking the Kool-Aid and I started asking questions,” he said. “I started looking. I started talking to people.”
“Look at the data yourself,” he advised. “Don’t wait for the media, who will twist every data point.”
Despite what we’ve been told for more than two years now, “science is a dynamic process,” he said:
“Science isn’t settled. Science is a process of exploration, of admitting when you’re wrong, finding out what you’re right on. You have hypotheses, you test them … move forward. And people need to realize that and not necessarily trust these people that are so-called experts.
“I am open to learning and seeing the truth. If there are things that I’m wrong [about], that’s fine, that’s part of science.”
“I’m so thankful that you’re saying this,” Locricchio told Wallskog. “Because it really means something … you’re a citizen, you’re an injured person, but you’re also a physician.”
Wallskog has now taken matters into his own hands in an effort to help others. “We’re sick and tired of waiting for other people to do the right thing,” he said. “We’re just going to do it ourselves.”
He is now co-chairman, along with Brianne Dressen, of REACT19, a “science-based nonprofit” offering financial, physical and emotional support for those suffering from long-term COVID-19 vaccine adverse events.
The REACT19 website states:
“React19 works with both patients and providers as well as research teams. Our programs all fall within our 3 categories of assistance (financial, physical, and emotional).
“Programs include funding, promoting, and sharing relevant scientific research; bringing the right medical teams together with patients; direct financial assistance; educational outreach; and supporting communities where impacted people can begin to heal physically and emotionally.”
Financial support is important, said Wallskog, but acknowledgment of vaccine injuries is just as vital.
He spoke with Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. According to Wallskog, “[Marks] privately said, ‘I acknowledge these injuries,’ but he won’t publicly acknowledge them.”
“This was a quote on video,” said Wallskog. “And I said, ‘well, that’s too bad because acknowledgment is important.’”
Wallskog added:
“Without the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration], the [National Institutes of Health] and other governmental agencies acknowledging these injuries, the conditions won’t be communicated to the healthcare community. If the healthcare community doesn’t know what to look for … when these people present [to a doctor with symptoms], then they’re just gaslit,” he said.
“Acknowledgment leads to the development of evaluation and treatment protocols for these people. That’s why it’s important … And the other thing is to support these people. And that’s what I’m hoping to do through REACT.”
Watch the interview here:
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Intelligent idiots. They were all given an out when the CDC went with the easily counterfeited vaccine card as proof of vaccination rather than the digital vaccine passports tied to a national health insurer like in Europe. Just had to make a fake card.
One lie does not justify another. That would not be an “out” for an honest person.
We are dealing with Philosopher Kings. There is no honesty, there are no lies, only outcomes and the end goal of one world government controlled by them. They use honesty against us and they invented and codified it into religion to benefit themselves.
The Lord’s rules: Let no lie be found in your mouths.
We play by His rules and it is impossible to lose. It makes no difference what they do. What they do is between them and God. Same as what WE do is between us and God. They have no say in the matter; nor should their deeds in any way impact how we ourselves choose to answer.
Do not allow yourself to be remade in the image of the enemy.
You don’t owe honesty to thieves.
I don’t owe anything to thieves.
I owe everything to the Lord. And He said not to lie.
He also said separate yourself from such people.
Yes He did.
Bad habits rub off on other people.
Same as good habits.
The more schooled people are, the more they trust the system without critical thinking.
You’re right there. I live among some the dumbest smart people you will ever meet and it is in deep red country. Probably 80%+ of the corporate MBA type crowd in my neighborhood are vaccinated because their companies made them do it. While listening to a few of these informed by TV TV people discuss their vague apprehensions about getting vaccinated the idea of a fake vaccine card never occurred to them as a workaround. I could only stand there and think to myself you poor dumb obsequious linear thinker.
“I had some second thoughts. It just didn’t seem right. I just had COVID, I proved that I had antibodies … I had natural immunity. …But again, I was part of the system that I trusted.” – so I threw away everything I knew about how the immune system works and trusted a bunch of bigPharma-bought political hacks who will NEVER face any financial liability for my injuries…and got the jab….Hard to feel lots of compassion. How many of his patients did he force to get the jab before treatment? How many of them are now dead or worse off than him?
Excellent question. If the answer is even one, he should probably STFU.
If the answer to the last question (How many of them are now dead or worse off than him?) is even one, he should probably crawl in a hole and die.
I ask, especially because it seems from his “timeline” that quite a bit of time passed between his own personal infection and recovery and the incident in which his friend was brutally violated by the medical system with intubation, etc. and because jabs were NOT available when he was done recovering. So likely he was treating patients when no jabs were available but didn’t personally get the jab until they had been available a while and his friend got sick. NO doctors were seeing anyone in a hospital setting without FORCING them to get the death jab.
He looks like a fellow gen-X so I have a hard time understanding his trust in the system. Anyone who lived through the whole Iraq WMD fiasco and still trusts the system is stupid or intellectually lazy.
I’m pretty sure you just described most Americans regardless of generation.
Yeah. As someone from the very beginning of the generation I can tell you there are an enormous number of compete and total idiots out there that learn NOTHING from ANYTHING, especially when it comes to government tyranny, war, and violations of rights and the Constitution. You would think that the generation that watched JFK, RFK, and MLK get assassinated by their own government wouldn’t be the ones to give us Slick Willy, Obama, Hillary, and the vast majority of the tyranny we currently face….and yet hear we are.
Sad news for the doctor and his family … a bullet that he could have dodged — but didn’t — by making all the wrong choices.
The article — and the doctor — are wrong about 2 points, though: the FauciFlu was NOT a medical event — it was a coup against any and all around the world and their freedom and liberty; there never was any ‘science’ behind it … except, maybe, political science.
As Klaus Schwab and the rest of the WEF have been saying since 2018 — they’re pushing a ‘great reset’ — and, as he said in 2020, the FauciFlu was the perfect ‘opportunity’ to bring it about.
There are no coincidences …
Love your comment and especially the last line, Anthony.
So this guy’s a medical expert but fell for a dangerous new medication that even a dumb schmuck like me could see was a killer?
Medical expert only means that he can do a bigPharma sales pitch by heart to his unwitting patients.
“Wallskog said he is now embarrassed for his profession”
Started listening to the LOL’s (Little Old Ladies) in Church. The number of multiple joint replacements in those 75+ yrs plus is astounding. I’m sure it has nothing to do with cash cow insurance payouts to these magnanimous hospitals, surgeons, staff, and medical equipment/supplies providers. As well as the pay for the CEO’s and staff of the insurance companies.
It’s all OK though. Due to massive improvements in genetic engineering, they are now getting blood from a Turnip.
When is the next olympics? the u.s. will sweep up the gold medals.