Nurse who cared for children in intensive care unit who developed myocarditis

Former intensive care nurse Tawny Buettner worked at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. She needed to be vaccinated against Covid, but refused. After six months of unpaid leave, she was fired March 1 of this year.

Tawny cared for children who were admitted with myocarditis after receiving the Covid vaccine. The nurse asked doctors why these cases were not reported to VAERS, the U.S. adverse drug event database. It was an unwritten rule that this should not be talked about openly.

For 13 years, Tawny cared for critically ill patients. The day before she was discharged, she gave a child chest compressions to keep him alive. She succeeded.

"And yet I was ridiculed by my 'colleagues' and 'friends,'" an emotional Tawny said at a San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Those supervisors have decided that unvaccinated nurses at Rady Children's Hospital will not be allowed to work starting Oct. 1, 2021, while vaccinated health care workers will not even be tested. "I took care of children who had Covid. I never got Covid at the hospital," she said. "I loved my job."