{"id":149335,"date":"2025-09-03T14:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149335"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:10:39","slug":"report-new-york-physician-assistants-lawsuit-could-reshape-vax-injury-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/report-new-york-physician-assistants-lawsuit-could-reshape-vax-injury-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: New York physician assistant’s lawsuit could reshape vax injury accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, September 3, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
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A physician assistant in upstate New York who was fired for filing dozens of reports on injuries due to the Covid injections, is suing her former employer in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, a report said.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Deborah Conrad claims Rochester Regional Health defrauded the government by not allowing her to report adverse reactions to the Covid shots, The Defender reported<\/a> on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n

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Rochester Regional Health<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conrad\u2019s lawsuit states that, under the False Claims Act<\/a>, vaccine providers were legally obligated by their provider agreements to report adverse events from the Covid shots to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).<\/p>\n

Conrad\u2019s legal case is ongoing.<\/p>\n

On June 11, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York denied the hospital\u2019s motion to dismiss<\/a> the case. The court found that the hospital was obligated to report serious adverse events to VAERS, and failure to report while continuing to seek federal reimbursement was potential fraud against the government.<\/p>\n

While working at United Memorial Medical Center, part of Rochester Regional Health, during the rollout of the Covid injections in December 2020, Conrad immediately began seeing injuries in patients, she told the \u201cBack to the People<\/a>\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the worst side effects that we saw related to things like falls after they had a vaccine. They would pass out and fall, hit their head, develop brain bleeds, strokes, acute mental status changes, heart attacks, sudden heart failure. I mean, the list just goes on and on,\u201d Conrad said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our respective training, discussion of side effects to vaccines are just not something that\u2019s even discussed,\u201d Conrad added. \u201cWe are basically told they are safe and effective and to memorize the childhood vaccine schedule and that\u2019s it. And so it\u2019s ingrained in us from our training to never look at vaccines in any negative light.\u201d<\/p>\n

When injured patients and their families blamed injuries on the Covid shots, saying they were the only change to their daily routine, \u201cI believed my patients,\u201d Conrad said.<\/p>\n

Conrad said she knew the injuries should be reported:<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never filed a VAERS report in my career, [or even] knew about it. \u2026 I\u2019m embarrassed to say that, but really looking back on my training and again that whole mindset, I knew everything there is to know about side effects from drugs and what to do if a patient suffered an adverse reaction to a drug, but never to a vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conrad was fired in October 2021. By then, she had filed \u201cabout 180 or so\u201d VAERS reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need a whole new overhaul of this system. It\u2019s embarrassing. We are the United States of America and we should have the best healthcare and we should put the safety of our citizens first,\u201d Conrad said. \u201cAnd if this system is broken, we need to fix it. It\u2019s a long time coming in my opinion because there\u2019s lots of healthcare workers like myself who have woken up, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

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