Dr. John Campbell: mRNA Vaccines Cause Lethal Encephalitis?

/ February 16, 2022

On Feb 15, 2023, Dr. John Campbell put out a very popular YouTube video entitled, “Vaccine Brain Injury”, where he discussed a case-report paper that, according to him, clearly demonstrated that the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 have resulted in severe, even lethal, inflammatory brain and heart injuries. As of today, this particular video has been viewed over 830,000 times. So, it’s had a fairly significant impact.

Now, before discussing this particular video and the paper that was cited, a bit of background on Dr. John Campbell. He is a fairly popular English YouTuber, who’s become exponentially more popular, and much more wealthy, ever since he started promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. He’s actually a retired nurse educator known who started out with a fairly mainstream position on vaccines. However, he soon veered off into promoting numerous conspiracy theories against the COVID-19 vaccines, with significantly improved financial success.

mRNA Vaccines and Brain Injury:

Anyway, here’s Dr. Campbell’s video:

So, in this video, Dr. Campbell claims that the mRNA vaccine that was given to a patient who died of encephalitis actually caused the encephalitis that killed the patient.  How does he know this?  Well, the single author of the case report paper he cites (Michael Mörz, October 2022) notes that the COVID-19 viral “spike protein” was detected in the walls of the inflamed vessels of the brain (and heart) while the nucleocapsid viral proteins were not detected.  They interpreted this to mean that the detected spike protein was not produced by an actual viral infection since a true viral infection by COVID-19 would have also made large quantities of the viral nucleocapsid protein. And, since this nucleocapsid protein wasn’t detected, the abundant amounts of spike protein in the vessels of the brain must have been produced by the mRNA vaccine.

It all seems so logical – at first approximation. Yet, things are not always as they might first appear – especially when it comes to the medical sciences.  As it turns out, Dr. Michael Mörz (a German pathologist) and Dr. Campbell got it completely wrong.  It turns out that neither Michael Mörz nor John Campbell took the time to do a literature review – since a paper published more than a year earlier had already shown that their assumptions here were, well, completely wrong (Jakob Matschke, MD, et al, November 2020). The lack of the nucleocapsid protein when COVID-19 spike proteins are detected in organs like the heart or the brain is the general rule, not the exception, for those people who are actively actually infected by COVID-19. And, with regard to the heart, a subsequent paper (Louisa Mezache, October 2022) showed the same thing.

So, Campbell is promoting false claims here.  And, he now knows this.  Yet, he hasn’t apologized nor has he taken his video down.  Why not?  Well, he does make a lot of money off of these videos…

Anyway, for further details and information, here are a couple of excellent reviews of Dr. Campbell’s video and Michael Mörz’s paper by the very well-known pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult and the nanomedicine expert and scientist, Dr. Susan Oliver:

 

See also Dr. Oliver’s review of the ONS data that has shown a history of a significant reduction in hospitalization and death rates (age-standardized), to include all-cause mortality rates, and how Dr. John Campbell misinterprets this data:

Masks and COVID-19:

As an aside, John Campbell goes on to claim that masks don’t really help at all:

 

Yet, there is abundant evidence that mask-wearing is indeed helpful in reducing COVID-19 transmission rates and the severity of disease.  In response, consider the following:

 

 

 

See also my own discussions here as to how masks reduce COVID-19 transmission rates and severity of disease: Link, Link.

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