Recently, a friend sent me a screenshot of a Facebook post from a local preacher/politician. Here’s the post, verbatim:
“We have a family friend that owns a funeral home out of state, and he emphatically states during embalming of the deceased that they have been pulling clots 2–3 feet long out of people. You know as well as I do that this is the by-product of the COVID shots and the boosters. This is one of the worst atrocities imposed on humanity. I never faulted anyone who felt secure in taking the jab, but my goodness to force it on the unwilling was pure evil. NEVER again America will we ever bow to that demonic attack on our freedom and health. I didn’t take the first shot, and never will.”
This person holds two positions of authority, one in government and the other in a religious context. People listen to his words and take them seriously. He should be meticulous about conveying only accurate, verifiable information to his constituents and parishioners.
Unfortunately, like many religious and political leaders today, this man seems unconcerned with what is true. And in dispensing health advice without the credentials to back it up (only hearsay), he is failing in his responsibility and potentially endangering the lives of people who take his utterances seriously.
Here’s the unvarnished truth.
Claims that funeral directors are finding long, rubbery “clots” in bodies and that these are caused by COVID-19 vaccines have circulated widely online and go back at least three years.
But there’s no credible evidence linking such postmortem findings to vaccination. Investigations by fact-checkers and medical experts show these stories are anecdotal, often amplified by conspiracy outlets, and frequently conflate ordinary postmortem clots or COVID-related clotting with vaccines.
Rare clotting events have been associated with specific vaccines (notably adenoviral vector shots), but they do not resemble the dramatic “2–3 foot-long clots” described in the post and occur at very low rates.
Detailed reviews find no scientific evidence that vaccines are responsible for the purported “strange” clots embalmers report. Fact-checkers identify them as common postmortem clots or effects seen in COVID-19 deaths (both vaccinated and unvaccinated), and emphasize that embalmers typically don’t know vaccine status.
So what does the scientific evidence actually show?
Medical experts recognized early in the pandemic that COVID-19 itself increases the risk of clots in veins and arteries, including strokes and heart attacks, with notable rates in severe illness. This has been observed in postmortem examinations of both vaccinated and unvaccinated people and can explain more frequent clot findings in mortuaries, given the massive number of COVID-related deaths.
Why are some embalmers reporting these strange “clots?”
The “rubbery” or vessel-shaped clots frequently mentioned resemble ordinary postmortem clots, which form after death and are routinely encountered. Licensed embalmers and professional associations have noted abnormalities in COVID-related deaths across both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, underscoring that anecdotal embalming-room observations can’t establish a vaccine cause.
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If the local preacher/politician spreading this false information had taken the time to do a bit of online reading from reputable sources, he may not have posted that COVID-19 vaccines are a “demonic attack on our freedom and health.”
Then again, it may be that—like many people shouting into the void these days about various health conspiracies—he simply doesn’t care about what is true, but only what seems to confirm his already-held beliefs.
That’s bad enough coming from your crazy uncle. Coming from someone who holds a position of trust among so many people, it’s downright immoral. People having such positions should be held to a higher standard than this.
Sources: Poynter, February 10, 2022, FactCheck.org, 12/1/22.
