Allison Inquiry | Julie Woods | Day 3 September 10th, 2026

"Julie Woods, 29, is a co-founder of the support organization CanRise 19 and a master's student in counselling psychology who played college volleyball and worked two jobs before her injury. She says lab testing in a University Health Network study confirmed she never had COVID. Woods received Pfizer on May 16 and June 26, 2021, and within a month of the second dose developed numbness, tingling and pain below her knees that lasted four months. After a third dose on December 21, 2021, she says the symptoms returned within five days, spread from her feet to her waist and later her whole body, and became constant, burning pain at seven to nine out of ten with a sensation of bugs crawling inside.
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She describes travelling with her father to see 23 Canadian doctors, being told vaccines don't do that, being called incompetent and a psychiatric case, and finally paying to go to Utah in October 2024, where she was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, plus mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance and microclotting. A Utah doctor recommended immune globulin therapy two years earlier, and she says she started it only seven weeks ago, after her condition progressed.

She describes finding React19, co-founding CanRise 19, and what it offers, and says doctors privately tell patients they cannot document vaccine injury for fear of losing their licence. She testifies while starting a new treatment with heavy side effects, and MPs thank her.

Recorded at the Allison Inquiry, Day 3, September 10th, 2026. For more information, including the full list of witnesses and experts, go to allisoninquiry.com.

0:00 Swearing in
0:24 Lab testing shows it was not COVID
1:02 How she is today: a new treatment
3:40 Why she feels guilty about getting it
4:50 Introduction: athlete and co-founder
6:02 The Pfizer doses
9:15 The third dose and the worsening
10:16 What the pain feels like
12:12 Small fiber neuropathy and finding care
14:14 Twenty-three Canadian doctors
17:33 Finding React19
18:52 Diagnoses in the United States
19:17 CanRise 19: what it offers
22:29 How injured Canadians feel about the medical system
25:57 Why doctors are hesitant
28:15 Closing message"