Is Medsafe's Reporting Blackout A Scandal in the Making?

How many lives have they ruined?

I've been in the health field for 50 years. In the first 45 years, I never saw a case of myocarditis or pericarditis that I could clearly identify. Then came the mRNA vaccine rollout five years ago, and everything changed. Dozens of patients — fit, healthy men and women — started showing up with chest pain, shortness of breath, and dizziness, symptoms Medsafe ties to rare vaccine side effects. They claim it's 30 cases per million shots, a nice, clean number—120 to 300 cases for New Zealand's roughly 4 million vaccinated, or maybe 8–10 million doses with boosters. But in my practice, it's not rare. It's routine.

And now, Medsafe's gone dark on us — stopped reporting these injuries. Are they burying a disaster? Are they hoping we'll all just forget?

Let's nail down when this silence started. Medsafe's last detailed report on Adverse Events After Immunisation (AEFI) was published on the 14th of December, 2022. It covered data up to 30th November, 2022. That's it. The tap was turned off right there. No more regular updates, no more breakdowns of non-serious or serious cases. No more death counts. By the 21st of August, 2024, they'd archived the whole COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring section on their website, like it's ancient history. Before that, they'd churned out 46 reports since February 2021, tracking every jab and every hiccough. Then, poof — the 14th of December, 2022, marks the day they pulled the plug. Why?

In my clinic, the cases haven't dried up. I'm still seeing young athletes and parents with heart troubles — zero in 40 years, pre-vaccine, dozens since. Medsafe's 30-per-million figure feels like a fairy tale when you consider underreporting. If only 1–10% of events get logged, as some experts reckon, we're not talking 300 cases — we're talking 3,000 to 30,000 across New Zealand. Thousands of Kiwis, maybe more, quietly deal with heart damage while Medsafe plays hide-and-seek. And they stopped reporting right when the booster push was in full swing — convenient, eh?

So what's the game? Are they concealing a problem too big to face? That last report showed 61,141 non-serious, and 3,688 serious AEFIs, including deaths, up to November 2022. Over 11.8 million doses by then, and that's just what they admitted. If the real numbers were 10 or 100 times higher, and they kept tracking through 2023 and 2024, we could be staring at a public health nightmare they don't want us to see. Are they waiting for us to lose interest, hoping the headlines fade? Or do they think these heart issues will magically resolve, leaving no trail? Fat chance — I've got patients still struggling years later.

Here's my take, and I'm not holding back: Medsafe quit reporting on 14th December, 2022, because the data was getting too hot to handle. Maybe the serious cases spiked, maybe the deaths piled up, maybe the boosters pushed it over the edge. They're still approving Comirnaty — consent runs to November 2025 — but without fresh safety reports, it's a blind bet. They tell us to report adverse events, yet they've stopped showing us the tally. In a country of 5 million, 30,000 cases would mean one in every 170 people would be affected. That's not rare — that's an epidemic.

If you or your loved ones feel tired and unwell after a shot, don't wait for Medsafe to wake up and sound the alarms or give you help — get help for yourself now. And start asking: why'd they stop publishing on 14th December, 2022? What are they hiding? Because in my practice, the truth isn't staying quiet — it's showing up every week.