Good luck suing the government if something goes wrong.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/12/29/595414.htm
Unlike the more established federal vaccine court, which decides cases of injury from most childhood vaccines and other common inoculations, the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program was created by a 2005 law specifically to deal with vaccines developed under emergency authorization. The idea was to allow pharmaceutical companies and government entities the freedom to develop and distribute vaccines to meet urgent public health needs without the threat of being overrun with expensive liability lawsuits. Under the program, drug makers can only be sued for “willful misconduct.”
Several senators objected at the time, with the late Massachusetts Democrat Edward M. Kennedy calling it a “Christmas present to the drug industry and a bag of coal to everyday Americans.”
The vast majority of the claims under the program have stemmed from the H1N1 swine flu vaccine a decade ago. And the low number of people awarded money — 29 out of 499— reflects its design. Most claims have to be filed within a year of getting a vaccine, regardless of when side effects show up, and the program does not pay fees for lawyers or expert witnesses. It provides little opportunity for those filing claims to participate. And the awards do not pay for suffering or damages.
“It’s illusory,” said Sarasota, Florida-based vaccine lawyer Anne Carrion Toale. “No one is going to actually get compensation in that program.”
Vaccine Court
By contrast, vaccine court allows for claims within three years, pays for lawyers and witnesses, grants awards for pain and suffering, and permits appeals all the way to the Supreme Court.