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800+ People Await Decisions From Government’s ‘Opaque’ COVID Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Posted on June 18, 2021
By Celeste McGovern
At least 869 people await decisions from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, set up to compensate people who have been injured by COVID vaccines and drugs. Experts say the “secret,” “opaque” and “stingy” program is slow-walking applicants.
A U.S. government compensation program that would provide payouts to people who have been injured or lost loved ones from experimental COVID vaccines includes a board with an unknown number of anonymous members who have not awarded a penny to a single victim among hundreds of applicants to date.
Currently, 869 people are awaiting decisions from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which was set up to compensate people who have been injured by fast-tracked and experimental “countermeasures,” including vaccines and other drugs.
Because pharmaceutical companies have immunity from lawsuits, CICP exists to offer payouts for lost wages and medical expenses from vaccine injuries. But the program has paid meager handouts to a handful of applicants among hundreds in the past 10 years and has not adjudicated even one COVID vaccine decision to date.
“It’s a lousy program,” said Peter Meyers, professor of law emeritus at the George Washington University Law School and former director of the school’s Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic. “It’s a secretive, opaque program whereby some unknown officials within the Department of Health and Human Services will make decisions; we don’t know how many people are adjudicating, who they are or what the process is.”
Applicants have only a year from the date of vaccination to apply for CICP benefits and may wait “months and months” for a decision, which is not published, Meyers added. So the public does not know who is granted or refused benefits or why. CICP decisions cannot be appealed.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/people-await-decisions-government-covid-vaccine-injury-compensation-program/
https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2021/06/18/800-people-await-decisions-from-governments-opaque-covid-vaccine-injury-compensation-program/
Thanks to: https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com
Posted on June 18, 2021
By Celeste McGovern
At least 869 people await decisions from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, set up to compensate people who have been injured by COVID vaccines and drugs. Experts say the “secret,” “opaque” and “stingy” program is slow-walking applicants.
A U.S. government compensation program that would provide payouts to people who have been injured or lost loved ones from experimental COVID vaccines includes a board with an unknown number of anonymous members who have not awarded a penny to a single victim among hundreds of applicants to date.
Currently, 869 people are awaiting decisions from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which was set up to compensate people who have been injured by fast-tracked and experimental “countermeasures,” including vaccines and other drugs.
Because pharmaceutical companies have immunity from lawsuits, CICP exists to offer payouts for lost wages and medical expenses from vaccine injuries. But the program has paid meager handouts to a handful of applicants among hundreds in the past 10 years and has not adjudicated even one COVID vaccine decision to date.
“It’s a lousy program,” said Peter Meyers, professor of law emeritus at the George Washington University Law School and former director of the school’s Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic. “It’s a secretive, opaque program whereby some unknown officials within the Department of Health and Human Services will make decisions; we don’t know how many people are adjudicating, who they are or what the process is.”
Applicants have only a year from the date of vaccination to apply for CICP benefits and may wait “months and months” for a decision, which is not published, Meyers added. So the public does not know who is granted or refused benefits or why. CICP decisions cannot be appealed.
[…]
Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/people-await-decisions-government-covid-vaccine-injury-compensation-program/
https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/2021/06/18/800-people-await-decisions-from-governments-opaque-covid-vaccine-injury-compensation-program/
Thanks to: https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com
