Seven News reporter Denham Hitchcock was rushed to hospital with inflammation of the heart after getting the Pfizer Covid shot, but typical of the mindset of those wearing their certificates like African tribesmen wear their ‘magic’ amulets and talisman to ward off evil spirits he still urges Australians to get vaccinated so borders can reopen.

Seven News reporter Denham Hitchcock is suffering from a heart condition as a side effect of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. The government approved investigative journalist said he has pericarditis, an inflammation of a sac-like tissue that surrounds the heart that holds it in place and helps it function. 

Hitchcock agrees the condition was caused by his first shot of the internationally criticised Pfizer vaccine. The establishment journalist called on the Brisbane government to ‘keep your damn promise’ on opening up the world. Hitchcock made the post from his hospital bed in Gold Coast University Hospital on Thursday morning, 25 days after he received the shot.

He said at first he was experiencing a racing heart, pins and needles, and dizziness, but continued on thinking they were normal side effects. After three weeks he was still suffering from severe symptoms, including sharp chest pain, chills, and the dizziness had become extreme. Hitchcock, who’s Instagram is littered with pictures of him being active, participating in extreme sports and showing off , said the condition was not being spoken about enough.

‘Since being here I’ve contacted health professionals I know in Sydney and while It’s rare – it’s certainly not isolated,’ he bizarrely added. ‘One hospital has had well over a dozen cases like me.’ That is rare?

Pericarditis and myocarditis have been observed in an extremely small number of people after they receiving mRNA vaccines, of which Pfizer is one. The cases were disproportionately men and teenagers under the age of 30 after their second dose of the jab. 

British data released on Monday found the rate of pericarditis was 3.8 cases per 1million doses of the Pfizer shot. The rate is higher from the Moderna vaccine, at 13 cases, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced he has ordered to arrive in the country before the end of the year.

By July 8, the TGA was notified of 50 cases of pericarditis in Australia as a result of 3.2 million Pfizer doses. ‘In the current vaccine frenzy, no one is talking about this but it’s clearly happening,’ Hitchcock said. ‘If you want the vaccine and have any heart history it would be worth talking to your GP about your vaccine choice, especially as AZ is readily available and does not have this side effect.’

The Channel 7 reporter said he wasn’t discouraging people to get the Pfizer vaccine, rather to evaluate their choices, but recognised that unvaccinated people would be prevented from travel in the future. ‘Above all I’m PRO opening the bloody country up and to do that I don’t see any way around getting the majority of Australia vaccinated,’ he said.  

‘If you don’t want the vaccine – I don’t have a problem with that either – [fine], but life and travel will get difficult for you. ‘The only thing for me that’s dead certain – if they don’t open Australia up when we reach their milestone of [80] per cent – then there will be a lot more people marching in the street. You want the trust? Keep your damn promise.’ 

Professor Jason Kovacic, the Executive Director of the Victor Change Cardiac Research Institute, told Daily Mail Australia pericarditis can happen after Covid vaccines but only in ‘very, very rare’ cases.  But, when rare cases of vaccine killed the phials were completely removed from the market. It appears the pro-serums want it all every which way to suit their narrative.

‘A very recent observational study has shown that young males infected with the virus are up to six times more likely to develop myocarditis as opposed to those who received the vaccine.