Posted on 01/23/2021 8:31:37 AM PST by RBW in PA
In February 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act a 2005 law. The legal protection lasts until 2024.
World governments are coordinating to get the coronavirus vaccines to as many people as possible. People who take the COVID vaccines and experience side effects won’t be able to sue Pfizer or Moderna, and likely the U.S. government will not compensate you for damages. Under the PREP Act, pharma giants like Pfizer and Moderna have total immunity from liability in the case if something unintentionally goes wrong with their approved vaccines.
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It’s probably longer than that. There is such a thing as a vaccine court:
https://healthcare.findlaw.com/patient-rights/can-i-sue-vaccine-manufacturers-.html
I finally found a Kennedy I can like: RFK, JR.
I'm not even getting a COVID test, much less a vaccine.
I’m 8 days after vax (Moderna).
Only 6 days left to post on FR.
Congress decided that people getting smallpox and polio again would be bad, so they stepped in between and created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate people with reasonable claims. That program requires NO medical proof a vaccine caused your injury. All it requires is that you show you've been injured and that you have a reasonable theory for how a vaccine MIGHT have caused it. If you do that, they pay out an average of six-figures. Some years as high as $500,000 per claim.
And with that massive payout and no proof required to get it, how often are there claims being paid? About 1 claim per 1 million vaccinations.
The lawsuit protection is nothing new. It's been around for 35 years. It's there because anti-vaxxers didn't want anyone to have the option to take a vaccine. They tried to destroy the entire industry so the rest of us would no longer have access. That's anti-freedom.
You are comparing apples and oranges.
There is a big difference between vaccines that have decades of human testing behind them and new vaccines that have no such history.
_New_ vaccines should have financial risk for the manufacturers—it is _their_ burden to _prove_ they are both safe and effective—and be prepared to prove it in court.
cgbg wrote: “_New_ vaccines should have financial risk for the manufacturers—it is _their_ burden to _prove_ they are both safe and effective—and be prepared to prove it in court.”
They have been proven to be safe and effective.
They do. If they don't work or they aren't safe (which they have to demonstrate in clinical trials), or they're simply too late to market, then every dime they invested in development and manufacturing is lost. That can mean hundreds of millions of dollars.
"it is _their_ burden to _prove_ they are both safe and effective"
Yes it is. In the United States, we do that through a series of clinical trials. In Phase 1 clinical trials, a new drug or vaccine is given to a small group of closely monitored volunteers (~100). They're checked closely for any signs of serious problems related to the drug or vaccine being tested. At this stage, you aren't even checking to see if it does what you expect it to do (efficacy); you're only focused on whether it's safe. Once it's clear there was no adverse impact on that group, you're given the okay to expand the trial into Phase 2. Here you give it to ~1,000 closely monitored volunteers and still primarily look at safety. Here you begin to see some efficacy data, but it's too small a group to be significant. Your main purpose here is making sure it's safe to expand to a larger audience. If you demonstrate your product is safe here, you can finally move on to Phase 3 clinical trials. This is where you get tens of thousands of people together and can see whether the new drug or vaccine is actually safe and effective.
These new vaccines went through this entire process. At the end of that process, all the data gets collected and reviewed before any approvals are given.
"and be prepared to prove it in court."
We tried that until 1986 when lunatic anti-vaxxers tried to sue all the vaccine makers out of business with bogus nuisance lawsuits based on garbage. The legal fees were threatening to bankrupt the vaccine makers, so Congress stepped in. It's been that way ever since.
The legal system should be a shield to protect people and right wrongs; not a sword to advance kooky conspiracy theories and run honest businesses out of business. Same goes for the gun makers. They have legal immunity as well. Why? Because anti-gun lunatics tried suing them all out of business too. Sometimes there's too many nutjobs abusing the legal system and adjustments have to be made to ensure legal, safe products that are critical to the nation can continue to be produced.
These new vaccines are like the early days of radioactivity—or cigarettes for that matter—when the “experts” were “certain” they were safe.
There is _no_ way to prove a vaccine “safe and effective” in less than a year.
That is raw insanity.
cgbg wrote: “There is _no_ way to prove a vaccine “safe and effective” in less than a year. “That is raw insanity.”
“Raw insanity” is denying this reality: Millions of doses have been administered with a very small, vanishingly small, side effects. Tests of tens of thousands have proven it to be effective.
This is so obvious I should not even have to say it:
We have _no_ _clue_ what the long term effects of these vaccines are...
None.
and all the lying in the world cannot change that simple fact.
I think the Russian only partially tested vaccine, Sputnik, should be exclusively distributed in blue states, and provide them blue state immunity.
Human Guinea Pigs. I refuse to submit.
BTT
cgbg wrote: “This is so obvious I should not even have to say it: We have _no_ _clue_ what the long term effects of these vaccines are...”
This is so obvious I should not even have to say it: We know that the CV has killed over 400,000 Americans and that vastly overshadows any ‘long term’ effects.
I’m 24 hours post first dose, Moderna.
The chip is a bit itchy I think, but the 5G is pretty nice.
Sad, but this woman, along with the medical person who administered the vaccine, should be charged with manslaughter.
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