Doctor renown for long COVID, vax research questions why fed studies don't distinguish between them

Dr. Jordan Vaughn of Medhelp Clinics has been playing medical detective ever since he first began diagnosing and treating COVID-19 illnesses and vaccine injuries that are still confounding many doctors.

Recently I headed back to Birmingham, Alabama, to get an update from the doctor who has become an international resource for diagnosing, treating and unraveling mysterious illnesses, as part of my new TV news program, “Full Measure,” and my new report on the latest research to help people suffering after effects from COVID, its vaccines, or both. 

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One of Vaughn's thousands of patients is Hannah Bourgeois. She’s a mother of five. She’d gotten so sick after COVID and COVID vaccinations that she was nearly bedridden for two years. She says the famed Mayo Clinic couldn’t figure out what was wrong.

“I felt like my body was just shutting down on me, and there wasn’t anything I could do about it,” Bourgeois told me last year.

But her husband, a medical doctor, knew of Vaughn and got his wife an appointment with him. Now, she describes a pronounced difference.

“He put me on the triple anticoagulant therapy. And I felt like a new person after that,” she said. “I had been very limited.” 

After we first interviewed her, Vaughn referred her to have a stent to open up her iliac vein, an important vein in the pelvis that collapses in many COVID and COVID vaccine patients, causing all kinds of mysterious symptoms.

Vaughn is working toward a deeper understanding of the body’s vasculature in people with persistent symptoms.

“It’s one thing to open up the vessel. It’s another to understand that all the vessels are also probably having issues,” he said. “They’re just not as apparently obvious as the one that’s compressed. And so we’ve got to make sure not only that we open it up and allow venous flow to happen, but we’ve got to heal the rest of the vasculature too. 

"And there’s lots of ways that we do that, whether it’s with anticoagulants, [or] other kinds of supplements that help with the inside of the vessel, to heal back to the normal state.”

I asked him about cases of long COVID that the government is studying but not distinguishing from COVID vaccine injuries.

“I think that’s unfortunately on purpose,” Vaughn said. “I will say in my clinic, the important thing is, ‘Have you been vaccinated?’ and then, ‘What were the symptoms after your vaccine?'”

He said he’s seen cases in which someone received a COVID vaccine and at first had no symptoms, but then, months later, experienced cardiovascular problems and brain fog, without contracting COVID in the meantime.

“I’d say the amount of damage seems to be more, the more times the spike [protein] has been allowed to run through your body,” he said. The vaccine instructs your body to make the spike protein found in COVID

Vaughn has established the Microvascular Research Foundation to develop clinical trials and research.

Watch the full story on the Dec. 8 edition of “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” and check out Sharyl’s new bestseller “Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails."