Fresno Nurse Sues Hospital, Claims Stillbirth Spike Tied to COVID-19 Vaccine Was Hidden

A nurse at Community Medical Centers’ Community Regional Medical Center has filed a lawsuit in Fresno County (California) Superior Court. She claims the hospital hid key data showing a “catastrophic surge” in stillbirths linked to COVID-19 vaccination—and retaliated when she sounded the alarm.

According to the complaint, before the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the hospital averaged one stillbirth per month. Starting in spring 2021, that number jumped to about 20 per month—a staggering and sustained increase.

Internal records reportedly showed that nearly all affected mothers had been vaccinated, while stillbirth rates among the unvaccinated remained constant. But hospital officials allegedly kept regulators and staff in the dark.

A perinatal nurse manager, Julie Christopherson, wrote a September 2022 email to her team, grimly referring to stillborn babies as “demise patients.” She noted: “There were 22 demises in August, which ties the record number of demises in July 2021….” She also warned the team that the trend showed no sign of easing.

Nurse Michelle Spencer, who works on the hospital’s antepartum, postpartum, and labor-and-delivery units, kept the email. She also called for a formal review of the increasing deaths. In response, according to the lawsuit, hospital leaders blamed “pesticides”—not vaccinations—and opened what she calls a “biased investigation” into her actions.

Spencer’s attorney, Greg Glaser, said: “The essence of this case is that the truth shall set you free. The hospital possessed vaccinated versus unvaccinated comparison data. The numbers proved the vaccines were causing miscarriages and more in the vaccinated group.”

He added that hospital management clearly reviewed the data but later hid it—providing empty files when legally requested.

Funded by Children’s Health Defense, the lawsuit accuses the hospital of fraud, retaliation, and unethical business practices. Spencer is seeking back pay and punitive damages. She also wants the court to force an independent investigation into the fatalities.

Spencer hopes her legal challenge will illuminate hospital wrongdoing and help “wake up parents and educate nurses.”

Spencer’s lawsuit is part of a growing awareness of the adverse effects on fertility, live birth rates and “significant harm to pregnant women and infants” associated with COVID-19 vaccination. The actions of the hospital, based on Spender’s claims, appear to be part of a larger pattern of obfuscation about the safety and efficacy (or lack thereof) of the “vaccines” so many were mandated to receive. As such, Spencer’s case has the possibility to not only penalize what some would call significant negligence and unethical behaviors, but to open the door for similar challenges.