The Claim:
An anti-vaccine Twitter account claims that mRNA COVID-19 vaccination caused a twenty-one-year-old model to have adverse medical events leading to amputation.
The Facts:
There is no valid connection between her amputation and vaccination.
The model was born with congenital heart disease. She did receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, but the vaccine cannot provide 100% effective protection against a mutating virus. Seven months later, she contracted COVID-19. The combination of COVID disease and her congenital heart condition caused her to develop a complication called rhabdomyolysis. Because her heart was already weak and vulnerable, the complication progressed into myocarditis, kidney failure, and severe dehydration. Eventually, the rhabdomyolysis resulted in leg amputations.
As she explains in an interview:
That Twitter account did not have permission to use my story. He … left out key information so he could twist my story to push his personal agenda.”