A second, more generous fund is only for routine vaccines such as polio or seasonal flu. Lawyers who handle these cases are urging the federal government to move COVID-19 claims to the second program, which they say is better suited and more transparent.
The first offers “the right to file and lose,” said Renee Gentry, the director of the Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic at The George Washington University School of Law.
More than 54 million Americans have been vaccinated against COVID-19 since Dec. 14, when the U.S. began a massive push to quickly reach as much of the population as possible.
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While one site that posted the claims acknowledged that it was intended to mock the sharing of falsehoods, others have shared the fake label seriously.
Covid Driving a Runaway Train of US Vaccine Compensation Programs
By Wayne Rohde
That phrase could be used for so many different scenarios. But one of the most extreme and dangerous scenarios is being played out right now. How our Government is plowing full speed ahead without any concern for the collateral damage it will cause in its quest to provide a COVID vaccine.
I am not going to talk about the science of the vaccines. That is being discussed so many other places.
I want to discuss how our Government is setting up the existing compensation programs for vaccine injury to fail, thus denying any type of future compensation for those who are injured because of the COVID vaccine and possible future new vaccines.