Vaccine injury group says they’ve had dozens of meetings with Republicans and Democrats.
QUICK FACTS:
- The vaccine injury group, React19, has reportedly met with lawmakers and staff from dozens of offices to talk about United States vaccine compensation programs.
- The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program are reportedly well behind other countries that are taking COVID vaccine injury more seriously.
- React19 Director of Legal Affairs Chris Dreisbach said they believe the US has the chance to catch up to other countries on this issue.
- The nonprofit is expecting draft legislation from Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) by the end of the year, according to Dreisbach.
- Currently, in addition to working on federal change, React19 runs its own privately funded compensation fund for COVID vaccine injuries.
CLAIMS OF COVID-19 VACCINE INJURY:
- As of Oct. 1 of 2022, roughly 7,400 claims have been filed by individuals reporting injury from COVID-19 vaccines.
- The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which covers pandemic-related products, indicates no damages have been paid.
- This is in stark contradiction to what React19’s materials for lawmakers emphasize, where they reportedly “acknowledge the COVID vaccines have played a role in quelling the severity of the pandemic,” but assert that injury still occurred and that existing injury compensation programs “are broken” and that “time is running out for those suffering and help is needed promptly.”
BACKGROUND:
- The British Medical Journal has already featured one subject who developed “debilitating neurological symptoms” following his Pfizer vaccination, following a spring investigation of complaints about CICP.
- Thailand has already given out $50 million to settle more than 14,000 COVID vaccine injury claims.
