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How South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine injury fund will work Aisha Abdool Karim and Joan van Dyk © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved South Africa has secured enough vaccine doses to vaccinate 46 million people against Covid-19 but the agreements to get shots into the country come with a catch. In order to secure jabs, vaccine manufacturers require the South African government to exempt them at least partly from liability and potential lawsuits in the case of any severe side effects the shots may cause. The solution: a no-fault compensation fund. Research has shown these types of schemes can have tangible benefits such as fairly repaying people who are injured after they got vaccinated for the public good. They can also improve the public’s trust in vaccine programmes, found a 2020 study

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