Media personality and podcast host Megyn Kelly has publicly disclosed that she continues to suffer from an autoimmune condition she believes may be linked to her COVID-19 vaccinations.
The 54-year-old broadcaster revealed new details about her health in a recent interview, stating that tests continue to indicate an autoimmune response, which she first noticed following her COVID booster shot.
“I just had my annual physical, and it’s still testing positive for autoimmune,” Kelly said in an interview with the Daily Mail.
“I really, really regret having gotten the vaccine.”
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Kelly received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine in 2020 and a third booster dose later, as recommended by her physician at the time.
She was living in New York City during the peak of the pandemic, a period when unvaccinated residents were subject to strict lockdown policies and restrictions from public venues.
“You could get the fake cards, but it was hard. I didn’t know how to do it,” Kelly said.
“So, I trusted my doctors and I did it.”
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The revelation builds on comments she made in February during an episode of her show, where she first mentioned a suspected link between her health issues and the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to Kelly, her rheumatologist suggested that the timing of her booster shot and a subsequent COVID infection—possibly the Omicron variant—could have contributed to her ongoing condition.
“I said [to the rheumatologist], ‘Could it be that I had the third shot – and then within a month of it, got the Omicron version,’” Kelly recalled. “And she said, ‘Yes.’”
Kelly, who now runs her own podcast network MK Media, described the autoimmune symptoms as “f**king annoying” but emphasized that others have had worse outcomes.
She expressed frustration over how the risks of vaccination were communicated by public health officials during the early stages of the pandemic.
“But we were lied to,” Kelly said.
“It was not an informed assumption of the risk.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges that COVID-19 vaccines have been associated with rare but serious side effects.
These include myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), pericarditis (inflammation of the heart lining), and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological disorder that can result in temporary paralysis.
While the CDC maintains that such adverse events are uncommon, the agency has continued to monitor post-vaccination effects through its VAERS reporting system.
Growing scrutiny has emerged from both medical professionals and vaccine recipients who say concerns about side effects were dismissed or censored.
In a January interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed his company faced pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to remove social media content that referenced vaccine-related injuries—even if it was satire or factually accurate.
“They’re like, ‘No, you have to take that down,’” Zuckerberg told Rogan.
“We said, ‘No, we’re not gonna take down humor and satire. We’re not gonna take down things that are, that are true.’”
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Meanwhile, research at Yale University is underway to study “post-vaccination syndrome” or PVS, a term used to describe lingering symptoms like exercise intolerance, brain fog, insomnia, and dizziness.
Scientists are examining whether these symptoms could lead to longer-term autoimmune complications or tissue damage.
“There’s no question people have been hurt and even killed,” Kelly said. “I, for one, have learned a ton, but remain pissed off about how the whole thing was handled.”
Kelly’s remarks add to a broader public conversation about the long-term effects of pandemic-era decisions, as well as the level of transparency surrounding vaccine safety and risk.
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American vaccines are safe and have saved millions of lives, and Kelly is doing a disservice to her audience by casting doubts over them since adverse reactions that a few might display do not detract from their lifesaving characteristics. Catching the flu was enough reason for me to dread wintertime. After getting the vaccine yearly, it’s been a whole different story.
Why are people afraid of questions concerning vaccine wafery? It is contrary to the scientific method to explore potential benefits but not to explore potenial risks. Could anything be more totalitarian than to demand that individuals not be informed about both the rewards and risks of an additive to their body?
Let’s not forget, the vaccine industry is not altruistic. We are being commanded to pay big money for these drugs. It only seems reasonable to know as much as we can about what we’re being forced to buy. We demand it of any other purchase from children’s toys to automobiles, from charitable gifting to investments.
How can you even argue that the benefits outweigh the risks when you stifel all scientific inquiries into the risks?
Covid vaccine has probably been the most controversial safety-wise because the track record displays more(at times even deadly) side-effects than, say, the flu vaccine and the vaccination itself can sometimes produce more swelling and discomfort than the flu one.
The scientific consensus is that the benefits of saving millions of lives and keeping the pandemia in check far outweigh the risks when considering the population at large.
Would you do without polio or measles or tetanus or chickenpox or hepatits or whooping cough or diphteria or rubella or mumps or pneumonia or meningitis vaccines? That would be irresponsible.