WASHINGTON, DC – A new television ad that spotlights Pfizer vaccine-related injuries suffered by 13-year-old Maddie de Garay was pulled Friday late afternoon by Comcast attorneys after initially accepting the ad on Thursday. The ad was slated to run multiple times before and during the FDA’s VRBPAC Meeting on Pfizer Data on its COVID-19 Vaccine for Children 5-11.

Maddie’s mother, Stephanie De Garay, said:

“I’ve waited 7 months for Pfizer or the FDA to acknowledge what happened to my daughter and they haven’t. They tried to ignore her injuries. With these ads, she will finally have the chance to be in the room with them, to be seen by them, and for her voice to be heard.”

Stephanie and Maddie De Garay

Maddie was in the Pfizer Clinical Trials 12–15-year-olds conducted through the Gamble Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Maddie, then 12 years old, received the first dose in late December 2020 and the second dose on January 20th.

Within 24 hours of the second dose, she developed abdominal, muscle, and nerve pain that became unbearable and, over the next two-and-a-half months, she was admitted to the hospital three times, each stay a little longer than the last. She developed additional symptoms including gastroparesis, nausea and vomiting, erratic blood pressure and heart rate, memory loss, brain fog, headaches, dizziness, fainting, and seizures. At one point, Maddie was having 20 or more blackout/fainting episodes per day.

Maddie became paralyzed from the waist down. She still needs a wheelchair or walker to get around, and a feeding tube for nourishment.

The commercial that got pulled: