Posted on 05/18/2021 9:25:05 AM PDT by rxsid
Employers may be liable for ‘any adverse reaction’ from mandated coronavirus shots: OSHA
It’s also possible that employers requiring the injections may be held legally liable for violating federal law.
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has put employers on notice that should they attempt to require employees to receive injections of experimental COVID-19 gene-therapy vaccines a resulting adverse reaction will be considered “work-related” for which the employer may be held liable.
OSHA released its new guidance on April 20 under a “Frequently Asked Questions” section of its website having to do with COVID-19 safety compliance.
The question asks whether an employer who mandates employees receive these experimental COVID-19 shots is required to record any adverse events as a result of these injections. Such recording requirements of serious work-related injuries and illness may not only leave an employer vulnerable to worker’s compensation claims, but such incidents could also impact the employer’s safety record. The question and answer in full:
If I require my employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their employment, are adverse reactions to the vaccine recordable?
If you require your employees to be vaccinated as a condition of employment (i.e., for work-related reasons), then any adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is work-related. The adverse reaction is recordable if it is a new case under 29 CFR 1904.6 and meets one or more of the general recording criteria in 29 CFR 1904.7.
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While the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 shields pharmaceutical manufacturers from any liability due to injuries or death caused by their products (which many Americans have said is significantly problematic in itself), scenarios such as these could still leave employers who mandate these injections liable for significant damages.
And adverse events with regard to these shots are not uncommon. Data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last Friday reveal that between December 14, 2020 and April 30 a total of 157,277 adverse events were passively reported to the U.S. government’s primary reporting system (VAERS), including 3,837 deaths and 16,014 serious injuries.
While causation is not explicitly confirmed through the VAERS reporting system, neither can it be presumed that all such adverse events are reported. Indeed, one study in 2010 found that “fewer than 1 percent of vaccine injuries” are reported to VAERS, suggesting the actual numbers of deaths and injuries due to these experimental substances are significantly higher.
Furthermore, it’s also possible employers requiring these injections may be held legally liable for violating federal law. According to America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS), products approved for emergency use only “are prohibited from being mandated by federal law.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization (EUA) specifically states that individuals must have the free “option to accept or refuse” these vaccines. Many argue the prospect of being terminated from one’s job by refusing such vaccines certainly undermines such necessary freedom.
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Federal law prohibits employers and others from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19 vaccine distributed under an EUA (Feb. 23, 2021)
While organizations are certainly free to encourage their employees, students, and other members to be vaccinated, federal law provides that, at least until the vaccine is licensed, individuals must have the option to accept or decline to be vaccinated.
Much remains unknown about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine
Even though the FDA granted emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in December 2020, the clinical trials the FDA will rely upon to ultimately decide whether to license these vaccines are still underway and are designed to last for approximately two years to collect adequate data to establish if these vaccines are safe and effective enough for the FDA to license.
The abbreviated timelines for the emergency use applications and authorizations means there is much the FDA does not know about these products even as it authorizes them for emergency use, including their effectiveness against asymptomatic infection, death, and transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.
Given the uncertainty about the two vaccines, their EUAs are explicit that each is “an investigational vaccine not licensed for any indication” and require that all “promotional material relating to the Covid-19 Vaccine clearly and conspicuously … state that this product has not been approved or licensed by the FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA” (emphasis added).
https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/23/federal-law-prohibits-employers-and-others-from-requiring-vaccination-with-a-covid-19-vaccine-distributed-under-an-eua/
Also: OSHA: Adverse Reaction to Employer Mandated Vaccination is Work Related and Recordable
Employers may be liable for ‘any adverse reaction’ from mandated coronavirus shots: OSHA
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What about the responsibility of the GOVERNMENT and VACCINE COMPANIES? Can businesses sue them for ‘encouraging’ them to mandate vaccines?
Colleges should take note.
I’m due to have neck surgery the end of summer. My concern is there will be mandated Wuhan flu shots in order to be admitted to the hospital.
schools should be as well
GOOD!!
How about retailers and airlines that force restrictions for vaccination or mask?
Are they not also liable?
How about a school that says your kid needs to be vaccinated before they can return to school??
Indeed they should. And if they don't...here's to hoping they get sued into oblivion if they mandate their students receive ANY experimental vaccine.
First they suggest we volunteer, then they bribe, in the end they will use force.
We have already seen the volunteers nearly exhausted. Now come the bribes like trivial free stuff, access privileges, and other things. Next will be force. That is how tyrants usually operate. Sometimes the bold ones will go directly to force.
This is all about putting businesses in a catch-22 like the Left did with Obamacare.
The ol’ “suggest, shove, then shoot”.
They did NOT inform hospitals of this!
But many can still sue anyway because I had already received my second vaccination by February 23. So did many in Oregon.
Sorry OSHA, too late.
What this implies is that they knew of adverse reactions and expected them by MARCH and the government PUSHED THEM ANYWAY.
>> Colleges should take note
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As an owner/operator of 3 small companies in the past, I saw this coming.
WHAT IS THE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE?
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is an unapproved vaccine that may prevent COVID-19. There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19
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HAS THE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE BEEN USED BEFORE?
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is an unapproved vaccine. In clinical trials, approximately 23,000 individuals 12 years of age and older have received at least 1 dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.
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WHAT IF I DECIDE NOT TO GET THE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE?
It is your choice to receive or not receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Should you decide not to receive it, it will not change your standard medical care.
https://www.fda.gov/media/144414/download (Revised: 10 May 2021)
Moderna's EUA information:
https://www.fda.gov/media/144637/download
Janssen's EUA information:
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/janssen-covid-19-vaccine
I recently spent 3 day in the hospital
Not one doctor, nurse, aid or even housekeeping staff ever bought up the subject of covid or vaccine
My kids were were when I went in and visited all 3 days
They were just asked to wear a mask
Sounds like anyone pushing the vax is liable. Doctors, airlines, cruise ships, ect.
Do you live in a free state? Unfortunately, here in Kentucky we have a little blue dictator governor and anything is possible with this wannabe fascist. Normally Kentuckians would never vote for such a POS. The last gubernatorial “election” was stolen in our two democrat sh!thole cities of Louisville and Lexington.
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