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Anyway, the amount of disinformation and fear mongering that is STILL going on is just brain deadening.
I'd say 99% of that is from the government and their "experts." Instead of vaccinating the most vulnerable in society (we have 13+ months worth of data to know who that is) and letting people return to normal, they're trying to mandate everyone get in via vaccine passports and wanting to limit where you're able to go if you choose not to get one. On top of that, what's the proverbial carrot for getting vaccinated? They still say you need to mask up and can't go back to normal after you get one, so why would someone choose to do it if nothing changes? Also, why would someone who already had COVID need the vaccine? These are legit questions they're not giving a clear answer to.
Lord Fauci stated yesterday why you need to mask up after getting the vaccine by saying you can still have the virus and pass it along, but you also have the CDC director saying you can't get the virus once you're vaccinated. So...which is it? The "experts" we should be listening to can't even agree.
If you want people to comply and get vaccinated, be upfront and honest with the public. Give metrics that are actually achievable. Sorry, we're never getting to 0% positivity rate nor are we curing death.
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Though VICP covers vaccines for diseases including human papillomavirus (HPV), measles, mumps, polio and seasonal influenza, it does not cover any COVID-19 vaccines.
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HHS Secretary Alex Azar invoked PREP in February in response to the pandemic, declaring COVID-19 to be "a public health emergency warranting liability protections for covered countermeasures."
This means that companies like Moderna and Pfizer are protected from lawsuits regarding their COVID-19 vaccines until 2024.
The Associated Press reported that VICP has paid much more in compensation than CICP has. Only 29 out of 499 people who made claims under CICP received compensation.
Since the late 1980s, VICP has provided $4.4 billion in total compensation, with an average of $570,000 per claim. Since 2005, CICP has provided petitioners, who mostly made claims about the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, $6 million in compensation, with an average of $200,000 per claim. According to the Associated Press, "payments in most death cases are capped at $370,376" for CICP.
VICP allows individuals to make claims within three years of their first symptom. CICP, on the other hand, allows petitioners only one year from the date of vaccination.
CICP doesn't pay fees for lawyers or expert witnesses or provide awards for suffering or damages; VICP does. VICP also permits appeals all the way to the Supreme Court.
In other words, people who make claims about injuries or allergic reactions to either of the COVID-19 vaccines have less time to make their petitions than people who have filed claims for injuries from vaccines related to the measles or the flu. They also are less likely to receive compensation for injuries from COVID-19 vaccines, and if they do receive compensation, it likely will be a smaller amount.
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Pharmaceutical companies are protected from liability regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. If someone has an allergic reaction or injury from one of the vaccines, they can petition to receive compensation from the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which also falls under the jurisdiction of HHS, has a better record of providing compensation to people who claim injury from a vaccine than CICP but covers vaccines for diseases such as polio and seasonal influenza, not COVID-19.
