A MAJOR conference this week will examine the impact of covid vaccine injuries. The event is inspired by a man who, after receiving two AstraZeneca jabs, has suffered nearly 3,000 seizures and now expects to lose his sight. Health specialists from around the world are flying into the highly vaccinated Channel Island of Guernsey to shed light on the dark side of vaccination.
Carpenter and joiner Dan Crouch, 35, is one of the 93 per cent of the Guernsey population who are vaccinated against covid. He received the jabs in February and April 2021 and immediately began to suffer fatigue. Three months after his second dose his lower back gave way as he had developed a bone spur in his spine which put pressure on his discs. ‘I felt like an 80-year-old man,’ he said. An operation to remove the spur in September 2022 was a success but his health deteriorated further.
He began to suffer tics, memory issues – he would forget his partner’s name – and blood clots; he pulled a three-inch clot from his nose. He also developed a ‘significant heart murmur’, he said. His surgeon told him the symptoms were nothing to do with the spine operation and could not be explained.
Mr Crouch now has a staggering 56 symptoms and has been investigated for cancer, but doctors have refused to explore vaccine links. Instead, they labelled him with functional neurological disorder (FND), a common catch-all used to dismiss vaccine injuries as ‘it’s all in your mind’.
He was admitted to the Oberlands Centre, a Guernsey psychiatric hospital, for three months to discuss his ‘feelings’. Staff concluded his symptoms stemmed from the death of his brother when he was just four months old, claiming he’d been ‘trying to act cool’ decades later.
This devastating diagnosis prevents him from receiving any meaningful treatment. When he developed a large blood clot at the back of his knee, he was told it was an ‘anxiety bruise’. When he began coughing up blood, he thought, ‘I’m going to die,’ but was told he was depressed and sent home.
Guernsey’s Health and Social Care Committee (HSC), which oversees the island’s health, refuses to recognise vaccine injury. Guernsey is not part of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, leaving residents without access to the £120,000 statutory payment for 60 per cent or greater disablement.
Mr Crouch, originally from Essex, alleges HSC have consistently refused all his requests for access to specialist treatment off the island. He said: ‘Three hospitals are prepared to treat me, in Birmingham, Manchester and London, but 15 doctors have refused to write referrals. HSC just said, “We’re not sending you”. I’ve had 23 tests refused and every request for off-island treatment has been turned down.’
He is unable to work in the job he loved and survives on benefits. He spends his time supporting those also diagnosed with FND who suspect they are vaccine-injured. He said: ‘Currently, between seven and 14 with the diagnosis of FND die on a weekly basis.’
He is a co-organiser of Guernsey’s two-day Healing Beyond Covid event being held on Wednesday and Thursday at the St Pierre Park Hotel. There are two other organisers of the conference that will launch the Guernsey Covid Vaccine Injured Community (GCVIC): distinguished tennis pro Jo Robinson who coaches women’s tennis teams in the Channel Islands, and Laura Anderson, who owns a Pilates studio in Guernsey but now lives in Tuscany, where she runs wellness retreats.
Ms Anderson said: ‘Dan is the reason I’m doing this. He is putting all his energy into helping other people rather than feeling sorry for himself.’
Thirteen globally renowned speakers are due to attend. ‘They’re flying across the world because Guernsey is a highly vaccinated population with a high level of vaccine injury that the authorities refuse to recognise,’ Ms Anderson said. ‘This is going to be broadcast way beyond the island.’
Ms Anderson is determined that people will look at it. She said: ‘There’s a huge amount of injury on the island. We have a society in complete crisis. Suicide rates and turbo cancer numbers have all increased.
‘We’re not doing this to create fear, we need to engage with the doctors, they need to become informed and public health needs to be restructured. We need to put our energy into providing solutions. Once you’re informed you can start healing.’
She is hopeful that vaccine injury will become common knowledge and not a taboo subject described as disinformation pumped out by conspiracy theorists: ‘I know there are some extremely powerful people who know about vaccine injury but are waiting for the balance to shift a bit further before speaking out,’ she said.
Dr Nicola Brink, Director of Public Health for the States of Guernsey, has been invited to the conference. She was appointed an MBE in 2020 for overseeing strict covid lockdowns and went on to supervise the rollout of the island’s vaccination programme. So far, she has failed to engage with the vaccine injured.
One of the conference speakers is presenter and documentary film maker Del Bigtree, whose online show The HighWire looks at health, medicine and public policy in the US. It has one million weekly viewers, over 15 times more than Guernsey’s total population of 64,000. His latest film, An Inconvenient Study: The Cause of America’s Chronic Disease Epidemic Exposed, was released in October 2025.
For over a decade, Bigtree has highlighted vaccine injuries often dismissed as anecdotal but sought credible data. After his 2016 film Vaxxed, he asked Dr Marcus Zervos, then head of infectious diseases at Henry Ford Health, a leading academic medical centre, to compare the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Dr Zervos agreed and promised to publish the results regardless of outcome.
His team looked at the records of 3,000 children registered with Henry Ford. When it came to chronic ill-health, 57 per cent of vaccinated children had developed at least one chronic health condition by the age of ten compared with only 17 per cent of unvaccinated children. Ten years on, the study has still not been submitted for peer review.
Bigtree said: ‘I’m getting a lot of requests to speak internationally right now. Vaccine injury is not just information that should stay in America. This is a worldwide issue that everyone has the right to hear about.’
Worried that the Labour government’s crackdown on free speech could land him in trouble, he consulted his lawyers before accepting. He said: ‘I asked my legal team, how do I phrase things so that I don’t get arrested while I’m there. I’m confident about my right to free speech in America and I push the limits of that but I’m not into breaking laws.’
Confirmed Speakers at Healing Beyond Covid
- Neil Oliver – TV and GB News presenter (host)
- Del Bigtree – Presenter and documentary maker
- Dr Tess Lawrie – Co-founder of the World Council for Health and medical doctor
- Laura Anderson – Public speaker and event organiser
- Professor Angus Dalgleish – Oncologist and medical researcher
- Dr Chris Flowers – Doctor speaking on vaccine injury topics
- Dr Peter McCullough – Heart specialist known for work on covid treatment and vaccine injury
- Chris Robilliard – Integrative health consultant
- Laura Aboli – Entrepreneur, public speaker and journalist
- Dr William Makis – Expert in cancer treatments (participating remotely)
- John Leake – True crime author and independent journalist
- Fabio Zoffi – Founder of not-for-profit zerospike.org
- Dr Tina Peers – Expert in long covid and covid vaccine injury
Conference tickets are available here.
