Natalie Boyce death: Sad text after Melbourne woman died five weeks after Moderna vaccine Covid booster

The mother of a 21-year-old woman who died after receiving the Moderna Covid vaccination received a excruciating reminder a year on from the tragedy.

Natalie Boyce, 21, died in March 2022 at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, five weeks after receiving a Moderna Covid vaccine booster and the case is now before the Coroner’s Court in Melbourne.

Deborah Hamilton, Natalie’s mother, has become a fierce opponent of jab mandates saying her daughter was pushed into it by a part-time employer and Melbourne’s Deakin University that made it a condition of being on campus. 

‘I hold those pushing vaccines accountable for the death of my healthy daughter,’ Ms Hamilton told a parliamentary inquiry in 2023.

‘This same GP practice on 24 February this year, nearly a year to the day of her death, insensitively sent me a text to get my booster on 24 February,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘Money is obviously more important to them than people’s lives. This text caused me severe emotional stress.’ 

In her 20-minute testimony, which Ms Hamilton later said only six Senators bothered attending, the grieving mother narrated a harrowing tale of her family’s suffering.

Ms Hamilton said Natalie, who she described as a hard-working student studying a double degree in a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce, fainted the day after receiving a Moderna shot, following her two Pfizer ones, at a chemist. 

‘I called the COVID vaccine line for help, yet they were totally useless,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘Their response was for me to call an ambulance if I thought I needed one.’ 

Natalie began suffering a fever, stomach pain and vomiting’, which the GP clinic and later a local hospital misdiagnosed as reflux.

With Natalie not improving Ms Hamilton decided to take her to Melbourne’s Monash hospital, which she called ‘the biggest mistake of my life’. 

‘This major Victorian public hospital was an absolute shambles,’ she said. 

Ms Hamilton said she had to explain to the duty nurse that Natalie antiphospholipid syndrome and even spell it out.

Despite being triple Covid vaccinated Ms Hamilton was not allowed to accompany her daughter into the wards under the pandemic rules then in place. 

‘I still have text messages in my phone from her, pleading for me to come and be with her as everyone else was allowed someone with them,’ Ms Hamilton told parliament.

‘This still haunts me today, and probably will for the rest of my life.’

Ms Hamilton claims Monash hospital left Natalie ‘sitting in a chair for eight hours with a drip in her arm and a full vomit bag’. 

‘She was humiliated and, as it turns out, in serious heart failure, yet she was ignored by staff,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘They, too, misdiagnosed her and sent her home after about 16 hours. 

‘Doctors remarked that they were seeing a lot of these reactions after COVID vaccinations, especially a messy looking liver on an ultrasound. 

‘Yet still they did nothing for her. They failed to investigate her heart, despite all the signs, and sent her home with a report saying she looked well and to follow up with a GP in a week. ‘

Ms Hamilton said that 36 hours later Natalie was in extreme pain and was having trouble breathing so she rang triple 0.

‘I can’t believe how I was treated by the ESTA call operator,’ Ms Hamilton told parliament.

‘I told her that my daughter has antiphospholipid syndrome, which is a blood clotting condition, and that I thought she had blood clots on her lungs. 

‘Because Natalie was still conscious, the operator dismissed me and refused to mark the call as a code 1 and to send an ambulance immediately.’

The operator told an increasingly frantic Ms Hamilton a paramedic would call her within half and hour to assess whether an ambulance should then be dispatched. 

‘I then made the decision to drive her to Mulgrave Private Hospital,’Ms Hamilton said.

She said on arrival with Natalie ‘going in and out of consciousness’ they still had to follow protocols and wait 15 minutes for a negative COVID test before she could be seen by any medical person. 

After a doctor ‘diagnosed straightaway’ that Natalie was  in serious heart failure it was decided she needed to go to the Alfred Hospital for intensive care.

Ms Hamilton said she was ‘disgusted’ to learn ‘that the highest ambulance service in Victoria did not have the necessary equipment to transport her’. 

After chasing the ambulance Ms Hamilton arrived at the Alfred around 2:30 am but was told she couldn’t stay with Natalie and to go home because of Covid rules. 

‘I was so distressed because, again, me being vaccinated meant nothing,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘I was a mess and had to drive home for about 40 minutes. To this day, I do not know how I got home in the state I was in.’

Natalie Boyce spent three weeks in the ICU at the Alfred Hospital unconscious while her heart and kidneys were failed and her foot went black from a blood clot. 

She died while having an MRI on 27 March 2022.

Australia’s medical watchdog the Therapeutic Goods Administration later listed Natalie as a fatality caused by the vaccines, one of only 14 Australian deaths attributed to the jabs and the sole one attributed to Moderna. 

During the first fortnight in the ICU Ms Hamilton was only allowed to visit Natalie for an hour on only three days a week but then she was allowed to visit for an hour each day. 

Ms Hamilton said she was incensed to learn the rules were entirely different for then Victorian premier Danial Andrews, who was in the same hospital recovering from a stair fall.

‘An Alfred nurse told me that Daniel Andrews was allowed visitors whenever he wanted, with no time limits,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘My daughter was critically ill, and I was prevented from being there for her, yet the Victorian Premier could always have visitors as long as he liked.’

She said communication was appalling from all hospitals involved in the ordeal. 

‘I was told during my one-hour visits that she had been resuscitated on several occasions, yet not one medical professional had bothered to call and let me know,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘Another time, I arrived to find out that they had put Natalie on dialysis, yet nobody from the Alfred had rung to tell me about this either. 

It was distressing and shocking to arrive and see more machines attached to my daughter.’

She said since her daughter’s story became publicised she has been contacted by many other people claiming vaccine injuries.

Ms Hamilton called for Moderna to be pulled from market ‘immediately so no other person should die from it’. 

‘Natalie’s death has destroyed my life and severely impacted her brother, Hayden, and the rest of my family’s life,’ Ms Hamilton said.

‘We were a tight, loving unit that is now shattered.’ 

The matter will be back before the Coroner’s Court for another mention hearing in October.