After two doses of the Moderna COVID vaccine, a 22-year-old Army National Guard member suffered an array of health issues—including two heart attacks that pushed her to the brink of death.
Stancik once considered herself “very healthy,” playing multiple sports from adolescence through early adulthood. At 21 years old, she chose to serve the country by joining the U.S. Army in February 2021.
Even before Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s August 2021 announcement of the military vaccine mandate, “We were told that it was going to be required and we should take it before we shipped out to basic training,” she said. This messaging, according to Stancik, made the new recruits feel like, “You’re a bad person if you don’t get the vaccine, and you don’t care about the people around you.”…