Dr. John Campbell: mRNA Vaccines Cause Lethal Encephalitis?

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.

6 thoughts on “Dr. John Campbell: mRNA Vaccines Cause Lethal Encephalitis?

  1. Where there is smoke there usually is a fire. Major concerns are popping up everywhere! Sudden death Adult syndrome which many are concerned can be traced back to these vacs. So many young healthy athletes dying suddenly! Faucci seems to go into hiding while the early lies about these vaccinations and its origin have surfaced. No matter how you look at it, something is wrong!

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    • Really? Why then haven’t the sudden death rates for adults or young healthy athletes increased since the mRNA vaccines became available?

      “There is no uptick in sudden cardiac arrest or death in athletes due to COVID-19 or from COVID vaccinations. This is total misinformation,” Dr. Jonathan Drezner told us in an emailed statement. Drezner is the director of the UW Medicine Center for Sports Cardiology at the University of Washington, editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and a team physician for the Seattle Seahawks, the OL Reign soccer team and the University of Washington Huskies.

      The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research catalogs injuries for high school and college athletes… The center’s director, Dr. Kristen Kucera, told us that so far, “the numbers are the same and it’s actually fewer than we captured in 2018-19.”

      For context, the center reported 19 deaths in 2019-20, 25 deaths in 2018-19 and 21 deaths in 2017-18.

      Similarly, Dr. Robert Cantu, the center’s medical director, told us in an emailed statement that he’s seen no increase in athlete deaths and called the claims “misinformation.”

      “The statistics don’t bear out that there’s been an increase in events among athletes,” Dr. Curt Daniels, professor of cardiovascular medicine and director of the sports cardiology program at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, told us in a phone interview. (Spencer, January 2023)

      In fact, when you look at “all cause mortality rates”, you will see that those who are vaccinated actually have a lower all-cause mortality rate compared to those who are not vaccinated. And, this is true here in the United States and all around the world. It simply isn’t true that vaccines increase death rates of any kind. The mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and prevented many millions more hospitalizations and long-term injuries.

      A moderate-sized cohort study of 21,222 nursing home residents compared all-cause mortality between COVID-19 mRNA vaccinees and unvaccinated residents and found that vaccinees had lower all-cause mortality after adjusting for some confounders.[15] A longitudinal study compared mortality rates over time among vaccinated patients in the U.S. Veterans Affairs health system with no history of COVID-19 and found no evidence of excess mortality associated with receipt of mRNA vaccines.[16] Preliminary results in a large cohort study showed that COVID-19 vaccine recipients had lower rates of non-COVID-19 mortality than did unvaccinated comparators after adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and study site,[17] suggesting possible effects of unmeasured confounders and healthy vaccinee effects (i.e., vaccinated persons tend to be healthier than unvaccinated persons).[18], [19]. (Link)


      Source: Our World in Data

      Even within the United States, those states and counties with higher vaccination rates had a lower all-cause mortality rate compared to those states and counties with lower vaccination rates:

      The US continued to experience significantly higher COVID-19 and excess all-cause mortality compared with peer countries during 2021 and early 2022, a difference accounting for 150 000 to 470 000 deaths. This difference was muted in the 10 states with highest vaccination coverage; remaining gaps may be explained by greater vaccination uptake in peer countries, better vaccination targeting to older age groups, and differences in health and social infrastructure. (Link)

      Deaths more than 80% lower in communities with high vaccination coverage. A large US study published by The BMJ (Link) found that fewer people died from covid-19 in better vaccinated communities. The findings, based on data across 2,558 counties in 48 US states, show that counties with high vaccine coverage had a more than 80% reduction in death rates compared with largely unvaccinated counties. (Link)

      See also the excellent review of this by Dr. Roger Seheult:

      Also, where are the “lies about these vaccines and their origins”? What are you talking about here? It seems to me that you’re simply repeating what you’ve read or heard from conspircy theoriests without actually checking to see if such claims are truly valid.

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      • You emphasize the point that Campbell, thru his YouTubing, has probably become quite wealthy. I bet Seheult even more so.

        You probably won’t make this available for public viewing the same as you didn’t make my last post public.

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        • Dr. Roger Seheult does make some money from his YouTube Videos, but not nearly what Campbell makes. The fact of the matter is, Campbell started making much more money once he switched from presenting mainstream medical science to promoting conspiracy theories. Promoting conspiracy theories is far more profitable it seems… unfortunately.

          As far as your posts, I haven’t blocked any of them thus far. I do find it interesting, however, that you don’t address any of the counterarguments forwarded by Dr. Seheult. Why do you choose to believe a retired nurse, like Campbell, over a practicing pulmonologist who was fighting on the front lines during the height of COVID-19, like Seheult?

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  2. Two brains, locked in on the official narrative. Please look outside of the box. Jesus walked and talked and cared for people outside the box. Follow your leader who warned about deceptions by big pharma and big business as the beast the harlot church rides — Revelation 18:23
    “… all nations were deceived by your sorcery (pharmakeia)!
    https://revelationscriptures.com/revelation-18-23-babylons-pahamakeia/

    Jesus reached out asking to “let us reason together.”
    “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out” (Matthew 12:20).
    There is a spirit in the SDA Church that is breaking reeds and putting out wicks.
    Not an example of who we say is our leader.

    Wilson/ADCOM/Hart disowns members who dare want to “let us reason together” about the Vaccine Statement. Attorney Zirkle’s request stomped by Wilsons command to delegates to vote NO, and by a mal-functioning electronic voting system that would not even register the seconds to Zirkle’s motion. Request to check the electronic voting system was rejected by GC. Not something Jesus would reject.

    You say without compassion:
    Really? Why then haven’t the sudden death rates for adults or young healthy athletes increased since the mRNA vaccines became available?

    You say the vaccine is a risk-benefit decision. I say that each “risk” dying or harmed is a human person, not a throw-away statistic. Where is the informed consent, and information on vaccine adverse affects within the vaccine medicine box? Do you have a copy of what information about the vaccine is provided to patients and doctors?

    Article:
    Athlete deaths are 1700% higher since Covid 19 vaccine began.
    https://yournews.com/2022/06/11/2357621/study-finds-athlete-deaths-are-1700-higher-than-expected-since/

    Book: Sudden Deaths in 2020-2021
    Children’s Defense Fund, Edward Dowd, Robert Kennedy
    https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Epidemic-Sudden-Childrens-Defense/dp/1510776397

    Names of athletes who died after vaccine began:
    https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx

    Tucker Carlson interview:
    https://dailyclout.io/excess-mortality-goes-mainstream-in-earth-shattering-ed-dowd-tucker-carlson-interview/

    I know you will say that all the above are non-worthy opinions when compared to the opinions of the experts in the above article. Every opinion that differs is immediately discarded.

    Dealing with narcissists who think they are empathic:

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    • Two brains, locked in on the official narrative. Please look outside of the box. Jesus walked and talked and cared for people outside the box. Follow your leader who warned about deceptions by big pharma and big business as the beast the harlot church rides — Revelation 18:23
      “… all nations were deceived by your sorcery (pharmakeia)!
      https://revelationscriptures.com/revelation-18-23-babylons-pahamakeia/

      You do realize that Ellen White herself promoted various medications and medical therapies of her day that she considered to be helpful in various situations? – to include the use of what was generally regarded as a “poison”, quinine, to prevent malarial infections for missionaries who worked in malaria-infested regions of the world? She wrote, “If quinine will save a life, use quinine.” (Link) She also supported the vaccination of her son William, both as a child and as an adult (despite William having had an adverse reaction to vaccination as a child) (Link). She supported blood transfusion when necessary, despite their risks (Link). And, she even supported using radiation therapy when appropriate, despite its risks (Link). Beyond this, she recognized the advantages of anesthesia during surgery and the use of medicines to relieve the intense pain and suffering of the injured or sick (Link).

      Regarding Revelation 18:23, in particular, the term “pharmakeia” is best translated as “sorcery” here. There is no intended advice at all against modern medicine in this passage. What, are you suggesting that medications like antibiotics to treat bacterial infections or insulin to treat diabetes are evil “sorceries”? Again, such arguments only make the Christians who say such things look sensational and irrational – which puts the Gospel Message itself into a bad light for those who are considering following Christ. (Link, Link)

      Jesus reached out asking to “let us reason together.”
      “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out” (Matthew 12:20).
      There is a spirit in the SDA Church that is breaking reeds and putting out wicks.
      Not an example of who we say is our leader.

      Again, the delegates simply were not so uninformed as you and Pastor Vine are claiming here. They had already heard enough reasons and arguments regarding vaccines to make an intelligent informed decision on this particular topic…

      Wilson/ADCOM/Hart disowns members who dare want to “let us reason together” about the Vaccine Statement. Attorney Zirkle’s request stomped by Wilsons command to delegates to vote NO, and by a mal-functioning electronic voting system that would not even register the seconds to Zirkle’s motion. Request to check the electronic voting system was rejected by GC. Not something Jesus would reject.

      As already discussed, this isn’t true. Elder Wilson simply doesn’t have the power to command the delegates to do anything. And Zirkle’s motion did in fact receive “seconds” since the internet connection issue was fixed. The electronic voting system simply wasn’t an issue at this GC session as it had been back at the 2015 GC session. You’re simply repeating claims here that aren’t true.

      You say without compassion:
      Really? Why then haven’t the sudden death rates for adults or young healthy athletes increased since the mRNA vaccines became available?

      Why are you accusing me of having no compassion when I simply point out the fact that the actual sudden death rate for adults and young healthy athletes has not increased since the mRNA vaccines became available? – that the rate of these tragic events has not changed? – that, despite these events being true tragedies that are horrible indeed, they are are not being cause by the mRNA vaccines?

      You say the vaccine is a risk-benefit decision. I say that each “risk” dying or harmed is a human person, not a throw-away statistic. Where is the informed consent, and information on vaccine adverse affects within the vaccine medicine box? Do you have a copy of what information about the vaccine is provided to patients and doctors?

      Everything you do is a risk/reward decision. Even drinking pure clean water can kill you, since water can be toxic if taken into the body beyond its level of toxicity. And, the risks of the mRNA vaccines are well known and have been well-publicized. It’s just that, for most people, the risks of getting infected by the COVID-19 virus was much much greater than getting vaccinated ahead of time.

      Article:
      Athlete deaths are 1700% higher since Covid 19 vaccine began.
      https://yournews.com/2022/06/11/2357621/study-finds-athlete-deaths-are-1700-higher-than-expected-since/

      Book: Sudden Deaths in 2020-2021
      Children’s Defense Fund, Edward Dowd, Robert Kennedy
      https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Epidemic-Sudden-Childrens-Defense/dp/1510776397

      Names of athletes who died after vaccine began:
      https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx

      Tucker Carlson interview:
      https://dailyclout.io/excess-mortality-goes-mainstream-in-earth-shattering-ed-dowd-tucker-carlson-interview/

      This is all based on false or misleading information, some of which has been completely fabricated (Link). You’re taking lies for truth and truth for lies here. I’m really sorry that you’ve been do deceived, but that’s the reality of the situation. The voices that you’ve chosen to listen to are, in fact, not telling you the actual truth. And, just a little bit of even-hand investigation would demonstrate this to the candid observer. The claim that young healthy athletes have started dying at much higher rates since the mRNA vaccines became available just isn’t true. This conspiracy theory is flat out wrong, without any basis in actual generally-available empirical data. Here’s a little history behind this particular conspiracy theory:

      Ben Swann, who has spread misinformation about the pandemic since 2020, posted on Facebook on Jan. 3 an old video promoting the unsupported theory that there’s a recent surge in athlete deaths. The same day, conservative commentator Liz Wheeler and Dr. Simone Gold — who has peddled dubious cures for COVID-19, anti-vaccination messages and politicized medical misinformation — posted similar claims… Both Wheeler and Gold cited a letter to the editor published in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology that was co-authored by Dr. Peter McCullough, another prominent purveyor of COVID-19 misinformation. Although its publication may give the letter a veneer of legitimacy, the letter did not include any original research, as suggested by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson. Rather, it relied upon an arbitrary list of athlete deaths maintained on an anonymous website that we wrote about shortly after it appeared online in late 2021.

      As we explained before, the list includes students, professionals, amateurs, coaches and retirees. It includes people who died by suicide, car crash and drug overdose. The list does not — in nearly all cases — include the vaccination status of the deceased, let alone prove any causal relationship between vaccines and the deaths. In fact, as we’ve previously reported, some of the deaths initially listed happened before the vaccines had even become available to the age category for the person listed.

      Wheeler and Gold, though, each shared an image that highlighted a portion of the letter comparing the number of deaths listed on the anonymous website with the number of sudden cardiac deaths among athletes that had appeared in academic literature over a 38-year period as compiled in a 2006 paper. The two figures reflect different criteria. One number is very broad and includes anyone with a passing relationship to sports who died for any reason since 2021, while the other is conspicuously narrow and includes only the deaths of athletes that were analyzed in English-language academic research papers.

      Although the comparison they make is meaningless, Wheeler and Gold leave the false impression that there’s been a surge in deaths and further the baseless narrative that there’s been an increase in athlete injuries and deaths since the COVID-19 vaccines became available.

      But the surge is fiction. It doesn’t exist.

      “There is no uptick in sudden cardiac arrest or death in athletes due to COVID-19 or from COVID vaccinations. This is total misinformation,” Dr. Jonathan Drezner told us in an emailed statement. Drezner is the director of the UW Medicine Center for Sports Cardiology at the University of Washington, editor in chief of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and a team physician for the Seattle Seahawks, the OL Reign soccer team and the University of Washington Huskies.

      More than 2,000 children and adolescents in the U.S. die from sudden cardiac arrest every year, according to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and two-thirds of the deaths “occur during exercise or activity.” Among young athletes, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death, according to CHOP.

      Drezner said his center monitors “all cases and all causes” of sudden cardiac arrest or death in athletes by working with the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “[T]here is no change,” he said.

      The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research catalogs injuries for high school and college athletes, and its most recent report covers the 2020-21 school year. It shows that 21 athletes died while playing their sport that year.

      COVID-19 vaccines were available to everyone 16 and over in the U.S. by April 2021, so the overlap between the period covered by the report and the period in which vaccines were widely available to young people was relatively small. We reached out to the center to find out if the data collected for the 2021-2022 school year has indicated any increase in deaths.

      The center’s director, Dr. Kristen Kucera, told us that so far, “the numbers are the same and it’s actually fewer than we captured in 2018-19.”

      For context, the center reported 19 deaths in 2019-20, 25 deaths in 2018-19 and 21 deaths in 2017-18.

      Similarly, Dr. Robert Cantu, the center’s medical director, told us in an emailed statement that he’s seen no increase in athlete deaths and called the claims “misinformation.”

      “The statistics don’t bear out that there’s been an increase in events among athletes,” Dr. Curt Daniels, professor of cardiovascular medicine and director of the sports cardiology program at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, told us in a phone interview.

      The field of sports cardiologists who oversee the health of athletes is relatively small, Daniels said. “We talk and communicate all the time,” he said, and none of his colleagues has flagged a rise in sudden cardiac arrest.

      “There’s been no increase,” he said.

      Also, Daniels noted, there’s a high vaccination rate among athletes in part because many organizations require vaccination to participate. He noted that a rare side effect of the mRNA vaccines is heart inflammation, or myocarditis, which has primarily affected young men between 12 and 24 years old after a second dose, as we’ve explained before. The risk is highest for males ages 16 to 17, at 106 cases per million doses after the second dose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

      Those cases have appeared to resolve faster and have better clinical outcomes when compared with the more common cases of myocarditis caused by viral infection, including from the virus that causes COVID-19. Despite that, anti-vaccine campaigners have distorted the rare vaccine side effect as being more common than it is, using that misrepresentation in claims about increases in athlete deaths.

      For those who develop myocarditis, stressing the heart with intense physical activity could create an arrhythmia resulting in a cardiac event, Daniels said.

      “And, in fact,” Daniels said, “we have not seen an increase in events.”

      So, he said, if the vaccines were causing an increase in sudden deaths, “we would be seeing it here and we’re not.” (Link)

      Yet, you don’t accept any data that is contrary to your position. Why not? Upon what basis do you believe the claims of known conspiracy theorists over the observation of the vast majority of experts in this particular field of study? I mean, how credible are those that you’re referencing here?

      Tucker Carlson, in particular, admits that he lies on his program for entertainment purposes (Link, Link). Robert Kennedy consistently makes completely false and outrageous claims and promotes innumerable conspiracy theories – most of which are completely ludicrous. Drs. Peter McCullough and Robert Malone aren’t much better, spouting off endless tin-hat just-so conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the mRNA viruses. Yet, these are the types of people that you are citing to support your positions here? Can’t you do any better than this?

      I know you will say that all the above are non-worthy opinions compared to the experts’ opinions in the above article. Every opinion that differs is immediately discarded.

      It’s not that these differing opinions haven’t been very carefully and thouroughly considered. It’s just that they’ve all turned out to be wrong. The actual data that is currently in hand very clearly falsifies the claims that you’ve been forwarding – all of them. How then, do you explain away what seems to be the very strong weight evidence that I’ve provided to you that appears to effectively falsify your positions here?

      Dealing with narcissists who think they are empathic:

      Again, you accuse me of narcissism and lack of empathy with great confidence – without actually knowing me or my true heart or motivations. What makes you so confident that I care not about reducing serious injuries or saving lives? How could you possibly think yourself clear to make such God-like accusations? Are such moral judgments and accusations really Christlike? I mean, even though I think that what you’re promoting is actually hurting people and putting their very lives at risk, I don’t accuse you of evil motives. I think that you honestly and sincerely believe what you believe – that you are honestly trying to help people. Why can’t you offer me the same benefit of the doubt here? – at least with regard to my own motivations and personal morality?

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