Not long after receiving AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, Brianne Dressen began feeling a strange pins-and-needles sensation that quickly spread across her whole body.
“It was like an electric pulse, it was horrific. I’d never felt anything like it,” she recalled. Within hours, her vision blurred and her ears started ringing.
Dressen was given the AstraZeneca jab at a laboratory in Utah as part of the pharmaceutical company’s early clinical trials in November 2020. The British-made vaccine went on to be widely distributed in the UK, but never ended up being approved for use in the US. More than three years later, the 42-year-old mother still experiences crippling pain.
Dressen had desperately wanted to be “part of the solution” to a global pandemic that had shut down
