Chris Cuomo says he’s been affected by long COVID: ‘I’m sick myself’

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo admitted to suffering from side effects he believes were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine.

“We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, aka side effects, but nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away,” Mr. Cuomo said on his eponymous show while interviewing nurse practitioner Shaun Barcavage.

“But the problem is people like Shaun — and me — and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings, you know, physically, are not going away,” he said. 

Mr. Cuomo brought Mr. Barcavage on the show after he was featured in a New York Times article about several people who feel they have been harmed by the vaccine. Mr. Barcavage recounted his story, saying that since his first shot, his heart starts racing every time he stands up. He said he has had pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals that has since gone away, but continues to have tinnitus.

“As soon as I was injured — 15, 20 minutes in my first dose — I had paresthesias,  numbness and tingling up and down my injected arm, that over the day spread to my face and my eyes,” Mr. Barcavage said on the show.

“I went to see a neurologist, he ran some tests and he was like, ‘Well, this is all new. We don’t know much about it, but the hospital is going to mandate it. You should get a second dose,’” he said. “And everything in my medical mind and in my bones was telling me, ‘No.’”

He said the pressure was too much, and he wound up getting a second dose.

“After that everything blew up,” Mr. Barcavage said. “I went from being a healthy, 100% healthy, fully functioning nurse to a complete downward spiral of health. I developed a myriad of symptoms.”

He said no one would help him, even after he reached out to his local politicians. His health questions led him to sending his blood to Germany, where doctors tested his blood.

Mr. Cuomo said the German doctors were more likely to help him because COVID-19 “is less political there.”

Mr. Barcavage criticized the government for not being open about the vaccines.

“If the government had just said, ‘Hey, these are novel vaccines. There will be reactions. Let’s just have a program in place to deal with them, set up a fund, and obligate the manufacturers to provide help or research.’ I think the citizens would have appreciated that but instead what happened was they just suppressed me,” he said.

“I’m sick myself,” Mr. Cuomo said.

“I’m working with people who are working on this,” he said, adding that he would “never stop reporting on this.”

For more information, visit The Washington Times COVID-19 resource page.