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.
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.
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
Here’s a question: While Congress was doing this, why didn’t they protect biz, large and small, from WuFlu liability?
Inquiring minds want to know.