"You're not even hearing anything from the organization that's supposed be helping you," says Adele Fox, above, a COVID vaccine sufferer who's struggling to return to her normal life.
Federal liability protections prevent the vaccine-injured from directly suing vaccine manufacturers like Johnson & Johnson.
The earlier program was supposed to shore up pharmaceutical companies' willingness to make childhood vaccines in the face of persistent vaccine injury lawsuits, while also giving the vaccine-injured a fair and expedited process for compensation.
Renée Gentry, vaccine injury lawyer: The COVID program has a much higher bar and a much lower rate of successful claims.
HRSA describes this as "a high evidentiary standard." Renée Gentry, a practicing vaccine injury lawyer who directs the Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic at George Washington University, says it's a much higher bar than what the earlier vaccine injury compensation program requires, which contributes to a much lower rate of successful claims.
The COVID vaccine compensation program has a shorter filing deadline, in contrast with three years in an earlier program.
Once they do, those claiming a vaccine injury will be able to pursue claims against vaccine manufacturers in state courts.
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