I know what you're saying, but the government gave the covid vax makers immunity from lawsuits as they refused to make these experimental vaccines without liability protection. Thy knew these vaccines were risky.
And Biden extended the protection.
The outgoing Biden Administration has quietly extended a pandemic-era measure that protects Covid vaccine makers from being sued for injuries or deaths.
Officials at the Health and Human Services (HHS) say it's necessary because there is still 'a credible risk' the pandemic spirals out of control in the next four years, even though Covid deaths and hospital admissions are at historic lows.
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act was initially enacted in 2020, in part to encourage vaccine manufacturers to speed up their research of Covid vaccines without fear of being held legally responsible for things like side effects.
The extension, which had last been renewed in May 2023, also protects healthcare workers and hospitals who provide the shots from being sued.
This move could anger the incoming Trump administration, which has nominated prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head the HHS.
RFK Jr has long carried the anti-vaccine flag, once claiming that the inoculations caused autism, and now heads up a movement attempting to make vaccine manufacturers more accountable for vaccine injury claims.
This may also anger the small, but growing, number of Americans who say they were injured by the vaccines and claim they are being ignored.
Figures from national programs that exist to compensate the vaccine-injured show that there have been 13,000 claims that the Covid vaccine or other covid treatments has caused injury. 10,000 of those are awaiting review, meaning that since 2020, only about 3000 of those claims have been reviewed.
