Musician loses 8 fingers after COVID vaccine

Jeff Diamond just wanted to protect his mom. 

The singer/guitarist hadn’t planned on getting injected with the COVID-19 vaccine, he told Robert Kennedy, Jr of Children’s Health Defense. But when he became his mother’s caretaker, he worried that a COVID infection might spell serious harm for his mother, particularly since Jeff had played at an Atlanta event and might have contracted the virus.  

“I was taking care of my mother, and that’s the only reason I got the shot in the first place,” he said. 

Jeff got the Johnson & Johnson injection on July 9, 2021. 

A week-and-a-half-later, the musician was found unconscious, and he spent the next three weeks in a coma in a Minnesota hospital. 

Two months earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had confirmed a link between the J&J vaccine and blood clots after finding 28 cases and 3 deaths. But unfortunately for Jeff Diamond, the vaccine was not taken off the market. 

Now those blood clots shut down Jeff’s kidneys and other organs. Jeff discovered when he awoke from the coma that the doctors had amputated eight of his fingers. His singing voice was also affected from being intubated. 

After recuperating in the hospital for another three weeks, Jeff was transferred to a skilled nursing facility for six weeks. But during his stay, Jeff says his “feeding tube burst open”, causing blood to gush out of his stomach. He was rushed to Hennepin County Medical Center. 

A doctor saved his life, but Jeff says he’s been “in pain with these fingers ever since” and is unable to play guitar. 

“What happened to me … I don’t want to see this happen to anybody else,” Diamond said. “I think it’s a crime … People have got to be held accountable.” 

This was “all from, I believe, the Johnson & Johnson shot,” Jeff says. 

He has hired an attorney to try to get him compensation from the Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program (CICP), though very few COVID-19 vaccine victims are ever compensated. Greg Rogers, a lawyer with Rogers Hofrichter & Karrah LLC in Atlanta, calls the CICP program “a black hole.”