Posted on 02/12/2024 2:04:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Injury claims for COVID vaccines are subject to a different process than other vaccines.
Some 270 million Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions. Around 9,000 of those people have requested compensation through the only legal avenue available to them—the federal government's Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
To date, the CICP has paid only $30,855 to just eight claimants. Another 1,588 people have had their claims turned down—making for a 98 percent rejection rate. Thousands more have been left waiting with no response. If their claims are also rejected by the program, they have no other means of ever getting compensation.
Typically, someone who's been injured by a product, medical or otherwise, would be within his rights to sue the manufacturer in a state court. Since the 1980s, federal liability protections prevent people from suing vaccine makers.
But under the decades-old National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), people claiming an injury from a non-COVID vaccine are given an alternative to standard civil litigation. Injured patients instead sue the federal government in special vaccine courts, where both sides have lawyers, a special master (judge) decides claims, and people can appeal rejected compensation requests to higher courts. VICP petitioners need only show a preponderance of the evidence that they were injured by a vaccine—a relatively low burden of proof. The VICP approves about half of all claims and pays out $200 million a year (all funded by an excise tax levied on vaccine doses).
The CICP is nothing like this. The program has its origins in a piece of war on terror legislation intended to create liability protections for makers of novel, emergency countermeasures to bioweapon attacks and the like.
It's an administrative process, meaning patients' claims are decided by a federal bureaucrat, not a neutral judge. Claimants have no right to a lawyer and no right to appeal to a higher court. They must also show by "compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence" that their injury was caused by a COVID vaccine.
That's an exceedingly high burden of proof for vaccines that were approved without the typical years of study and testing, says Katharine Van Tassel, a law professor at Case Western Reserve School of Law. "We did not have very much time to study [COVID] vaccines, so we know the risk of injury was higher," Van Tassel explains.
All these features help explain the CICP's high rejection rates.
Advocates for the COVID vaccine injured are asking, through lawsuits and bills in Congress, to move them out of a dysfunctional CICP program and into the standard VICP program, where they stand a chance of actually getting compensation for their injuries.
the vaxx is not a vaccine
Some day, there will come a court case for vaxxine injury and harm and it will result in determination of FRAUD by one or more vaxxine manufacturers, government proponents and/or approvers.
That’s when the flood gates open. At that point I’d expect massive payouts along with a series of convictions and prison sentences for those listed above. They KNEW very early on. They KNEW.
There are so many people involved in this fraud from doctors on up, this will probably never happen.
You have a lot more faith than I do.
Yes. But at some point hope requires faith. If we stop demanding such then it all goes away.
Fake news. Trump spoke about the billions saved worldwide due to operation warp speed. Iowans agreed by voting for the man who authorized it, bumpstock bans, an amnesty offer. Some political groups burned cities during his presidency.
This is what the people want more of.
Agree, too many involved. However Fauci and Birx need to swing along with everybody in CDC & FDA who greenlighted the poison.
Nothing will happen more likely because any plaintiffs will be long dead and survivors unfortunately survived.
In before the jab pushers.
They aren’t following science, they are ignoring indications that something is wrong.
I guess death qualifies for “severe adverse reactions”.
Yeah, they put it last in real small print so normal people can’t read it.
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