Allison Inquiry | Toni Lannigan | Day 4 September 11th, 2026

Toni Lannigan, 38, of Prince Edward Island, was 33 and a nurse assistant of 10 years in acute and palliative care with Health PEI, a soccer coach and volunteer who worked full-time shifts. She says she received Pfizer on March 26, 2021, at 9:00 in a makeshift hospital boardroom during her shift, and that at 9:05 the roof of her mouth itched and she went into an anaphylactic reaction.

She describes three epinephrine injections followed by a continuous IV, transfer to a Charlottetown trauma centre, several days in intensive care, and being sent home with no follow-up. Days later, back at work, she says she could not read a blood glucose meter, and that vision in both eyes was impaired for 11 months, with her right eye still impaired. She describes balance and gait problems, falls, not being able to drive or read, constant pressure in her head around her right eye, fatigue, brain fog and speech difficulty. Lannigan says a Charlottetown eye doctor told her it was all in her head, that psychiatrists diagnosed PTSD and panic disorder but would not discuss the vaccine, and that her three-year workers' compensation case was resisted because her employer said it had not expected her to be vaccinated.

She describes being ostracized, losing friends and her job, and finding a new career as a school educational assistant. The host says the province's chief medical officer said publicly that she had recovered, and she says she was not fine. Her message to Parliament is to do something and not abandon the injured.

Recorded at the Allison Inquiry, Day 4, September 11th, 2026. For more information, including the full list of witnesses and experts, go to allisoninquiry.com.

0:00 Introduction and swearing in
0:37 Background: nurse assistant and life before
1:55 The vaccination at work
2:32 Anaphylactic reaction
3:41 Epinephrine and transfer to Charlottetown
4:27 ICU and release with no follow-up
4:45 The fear during the reaction
5:44 Back at work: losing her vision
7:05 Life with impaired vision and balance
7:45 Pressure in her head
8:14 Doctors and medication
9:16 Dismissed by an eye doctor
10:13 Psychiatry: not allowed to discuss the vaccine
11:21 The workers' compensation case
13:50 Fatigue
14:51 Stigma in her community
15:43 Cognitive effects and speech
16:32 A panic attack entering the building
16:56 Why she came to testify
17:31 Her message to Parliament
17:52 A new career and identity
19:59 Her daughter
20:42 Public statements about her recovery