Posted on 12/13/2024 10:46:55 AM PST by algore
The outgoing Biden Administration has quietly extended a pandemic-era measure that protects Covid vaccine makers from being sued for injuries or deaths.
Officials at the Health and Human Services (HHS) say it's necessary because there is still 'a credible risk' the pandemic spirals out of control in the next four years, even though Covid deaths and hospital admissions are at historic lows.
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act was initially enacted in 2020, in part to encourage vaccine manufacturers to speed up their research of Covid vaccines without fear of being held legally responsible for things like side effects.
The extension, which had last been renewed in May 2023, also protects healthcare workers and hospitals who provide the shots from being sued.
This may also anger the small, but growing, number of Americans who say they were injured by the vaccines and claim they are being ignored.
Figures from national programs that exist to compensate the vaccine-injured show that there have been 13,000 claims that the Covid vaccine or other covid treatments has caused injury. 10,000 of those are awaiting review, meaning that since 2020, only about 3000 of those claims have been reviewed.
It covers pharmacists, technicians, doctors, nurses and other individuals who are authorized to prescribe or administer vaccines or other 'countermeasures' against highly infectious diseases, like antiviral drugs or vaccines.
The PREP act of 2020 has been renewed around a dozen times since then to address Covid concerns, but this newest extension appears to be the furthest reaching.
HHS representatives said they issued this extension because they: 'have determined there is a credible risk that COVID-19 may in the future constitute such an emergency and am thus amending this Declaration to prepare for and mitigate that risk'.
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This evil basstid has NEVER done anything for America and her People his entire career....nada, nothing. The sooner, he’s gone, the better.
As many have said, he’s going scorched earth on his way out. He’s trying to make as much of a mess as possible.
The DoD is who would have to be sued.
He has no such power. It’s only increasing the cost of the get-around, but it’s time somebody established that precedent anyway.
Fraud invalidates lawsuit immunity.
Time for them to undergo an entity change or use Statute of Limitations??
WTF is Congress doing! They sit on the bench and watch.
Pfizer just informed Biden that his check is in the mail.
NUREMBERG II
You can bet its a very large check.
“The post-pandemic era is being shaped by heightened
global risk and unpredictable shock events”
The World Economic Forum
(from their website)
From the article: “The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act was initially enacted in 2020.”
Well, no, the PREP Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush in December 2005.
If they can’t get such a fundamental fact right, then why believe the rest of the article?
It seems to me anything one President does without congressional action should be able to be undone.
One President should not be able to handicap another.
All at the discretion of the Sec HHS. Who will soon be RFK and may deem otherwise.
There is method to this madness.
Biden (Obama, really) is setting up all these roadblocks to Trump's agenda, and when Trump removes them by standard presidential process, there will be lawsuits to delay, deny, and defend.
should require congressional approval.
Can Pres. Trump tell HHS to have the declaration re-amended to include exceptions ?(Why there already aren’t exceptions that include negligence etc... seems strange)
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