Tucker Carlson is stunned as doctor makes bombshell claim about Covid vaccines

TV personality Tucker Carlson was left stunned during an episode of his podcast, The Tucker Carlson Show, when presented with a sobering figure about deaths following Covid vaccination.

Dr Mary Talley Bowden, a staunch opponent of vaccine mandates who was suspended and then resigned from Houston Methodist Hospital over Covid vaccine misinformation in 2021, said there have been ‘38,000 deaths from these COVID shots.’

The death count was gleaned from CDC VAERS, a voluntary adverse affect reporting database that allows anyone to submit their side effects following vaccination, and where families and doctors can report patients who have died.

The VAERS system does not show that the Covid shots are deadly, a common thread of vaccine misinformation.

It cannot prove that any medicine or vaccine caused the side effects or deaths listed, but rather it represents the number of deaths that happened to be reported to the system that occurred among people who had been vaccinated, regardless of the cause.

Dr Bowden said the FDA should have removed the vaccines from the market but instead expanded their use to other age groups, including infants, adding the shots for children under 12 have not been fully approved by the FDA as they have for other age groups, but rather maintain their Emergency Use Authorization status, which still means they have been deemed safe and effective.

Still, Carlson was shocked : ‘This is going on right now? I think we voted against this.

‘You're very diplomatic, but I'm just stunned to learn that that's happening right now.’

Studies have emerged in recent years making the misleading claim that the deaths reported to VAERS were unequivocally caused by the Covid shots.

However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not verified any deaths as a result of the vaccines approved in the US, including those made by Pfizer and Moderna.

Meanwhile, roughly 1.2 million Americans have died of Covid since early 2020.

Though DailyMail.com has spoken to multiple people living with debilitating complications they say are the result of the Covid vaccines.

The Covid vaccines spearheaded by President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative and subsequent push to get people vaccinated to bring down the nation’s daily death toll have been a culture war flashpoint, with many on the right attacking efforts to require specific professional fields to get them.

Dr Bowden, an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor, told Carlson she had treated numerous patients with severe vaccine injuries, including neurological issues, myocarditis, or inflammation of the lining of the heart, and chronic conditions like postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

Injuries as a result of the Covid vaccine are rare and determining the vaccine to be the underlying cause can be difficult.

Dr. Trevor Keyler, 39, a pro-vaccine biology professor from Minnesota, has had to reduce work hours due to severe tremors and fatigue that developed after his Moderna shot.

Doctors initially dismissed it as long COVID, but Mr Keyler believes his symptoms were due to the vaccine, and now the formerly active outdoorsman struggles with daily family life.

Meanwhile, Kameron Snowden, 57, an Indiana technician, got vaccinated in 2021 to support his healthcare worker wife.

Shortly after getting the second dose, he developed what he likened to 'Spidey senses', then chronic tinnitus and debilitating heart issues.

Dismissed by doctors until 2023, he now lives in constant fear: 'I just never know what's going to happen. You just resign yourself to the fact your days are numbered

While on Mr Carlson's show, Dr Bowden discussed treating a 15-year-old boy with ‘bumpy, red, splotchy rashes all over his face, all over his body’ and he did not respond to traditional antihistamines or steroids.

When pressed about whether the vaccine caused it, she said: ‘Yeah, it came on, he had no prior history.’

The patient responded well to ivermectin, a heart dewormer used off-label for Covid, which has been widely discouraged by health experts and deemed in several large meta-analyses to have no significant benefit.

Dr Bowden began recommending ivermectin for Covid in early 2020.

According to a lawsuit she filed in 2022 claiming that the FDA was interfering with her ability to practice medicine, she was ‘derided by Houston Methodist Hospital and forced to resign her privileges there as a result.’

‘I've saw a patient a little bit older than me, CEO of the company,’ she added. ‘He came in and he gave me his business card and he said hi, I'm so and so and he gave me his [vaccine] card and he goes [getting vaccinated] is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life.’

She described the man’s tremors he believes were caused by the vaccine that made it difficult to hand over his vaccine card.

‘No way,’ Carlson responded, adding later, ‘That sounds like a life destroyer.’

‘This is like the most evil thing that's ever happened in the United States… it's such a stain on this country,’ he said.

Dr Bowden lost her ability to work at Methodist Hospital over vaccine misinformation in 2021. Soon after, she lost the ability to practice at other hospitals in the area.

She had tweeted soon after being let go that she would only treat unvaccinated patients in private practice, adding that ‘vaccine mandates are wrong.’

She later said: ‘Ivermectin works’ and ‘Ivermectin might not be as deadly as everyone said it was. Speak up!’

The Texas State Medical Board filed an official complaint against her in 2023 for violating the state’s Medical Practice Act, including violating the standard of care and acting unprofessionally by prescribing medication to a hospitalized Covid patient in Fort Worth.

The complaints also state that she had never examined the patient before prescribing them and failed to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality. If found guilty, she could face fines or a suspended license.

She sued Houston Methodist for defamation in 2022, claiming the hospital had violated her right to free speech, but that case was dismissed.

While many dismiss her claims, she has garnered a sizable following among vaccine skeptics on the right, appearing often on conservative media outlets.