It also didn't hurt that the trial offered monetary compensation of $119 per visit.1 This is what prompted all three of de Garay's children to ultimately sign up for the COVID-19 shot trial, which changed the life of de Garay's daughter Maddie. A healthy 12-year-old girl prior to the trial, Maddie loved to dance, play soccer and spend time with her friends.

She suffered a severe systemic adverse reaction to her second dose of the shot, however, and struggled through 11 ER visits and four hospital admissions in the year and a half that followed. Injuries from the shot have left her unable to walk or eat — she receives her nutrition via a feeding tube — and suffering from constant pain, vision problems, tinnitus, allergic reactions and lack of neck control.2

As though the physical trauma weren't enough, Maddie and her family were continually dismissed by the medical professionals put in place to help, ignored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and denied the care needed to help Maddie.

The medical professionals went so far as to label Maddie's health problems as psychological in nature, and they still haven't been contacted by anyone from Pfizer or the FDA — even after her true diagnosis was revealed and found to be related to the shots.

In the video above, Del Bigtree with "The Highwire" details Maddie's ordeal and the family's continued fight to not only get help for their daughter but get the word out so others aren't similarly harmed by COVID-19 injections.3