96 individuals are now able to receive a Vaccine Damage Payment.
QUICK FACTS:
- Accepted COVID-19 injury claims in the U.K. have doubled in the last three months, rising to 96 from 44 in March.
- Those whose claims have been accepted are entitled to receive £120,000 through the country’s Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
- The latest successful claims specifically involve AstraZeneca’s jab.
- Many of the claimants receiving payment for their injuries experienced immune thrombocytopenia, thrombosis/cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, and Guillain-Barre syndrome as a result of the shot.
- Consultant solicitor with Scott-Moncrieff & Associates Peter Todd claims the AstraZeneca vaccine was “not as safe as the public were entitled to expect.”
- Todd, representing dozens of individuals claiming they were injured from the vaccine or had family members who passed away after receiving it, explained why he believes AstraZeneca is the primary vaccine that meets the threshold for injury compared to the other COVID vaccines.
- He told The Epoch Times, “I think the government accepts the mRNA vaccines are causing myocarditis/pericarditis but I think they are trying to suggest the prognosis for those conditions is generally good.”
- The threshold for receiving payments for vaccine injury is at or above a 60% disability since having the vaccination.
DETAILS OF THE CLAIMS:
- As of May, 5,730 COVID-19 vaccine injury claims have been submitted.
- Two thousand claims have been analyzed, but only 105 were accepted, according to Health Minister Maria Caulfield.
- “There’s a number of reasons why applications are turned down. But if someone is turned down, they do have the right to appeal,” Caulfield told the ‘Covid Vaccine Damage All-Party Parliamentary Group.’
- Discussing the specifics of the 60% threshold, Caulfield said, “The Covid vaccine payment scheme is for all vaccinations. It could be the flu vaccine, it could MMR, whatever vaccine someone has had. So we have to be consistent across the board. If we were to change it now and then retrospectively look at those who were paid out in the past, we would probably have to amend their payment.”
- “So it wouldn’t be fair to suddenly drop that threshold to 20 percent for example,” she continued, noting that the system is meant to be “consistent.”
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests revealed that 512 claims from over a year ago have not been assessed, while another 144 from over 18 months ago have also not been concluded.
BACKGROUND:
- American Faith reported that the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine has been “quietly discontinued” in Australia.
- After being liked to “thrombosis with thrombocytopenia,” Australia rethought its AstraZeneca vaccine policies.
- The disorder involves low levels of blood platelets combined with blood clots and puts people under the age of 60 at greater risk.
