Vaccine Injury Claims Spiked During COVID
This is a MedPage Today story. The federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) fielded a massive influx of claims due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). CICP received approximately 27 times more claims in response to the COVID pandemic than it had received in the whole first decade of the program, which began in 2009 -- a total of 13,333 claims compared to just 491. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which runs the CICP, had made a decision on 3,483 of those claims, or 25%, as of June of this year. Of the decided claims, 92 (3%) were found eligible to receive compensation for a serious injury or death directly caused by a covered countermeasure. Fifty-two of these were due to COVID countermeasures, 37 due to the H1N1 vaccine, and three due to smallpox and anthrax countermeasures. To encourage the development of vaccines and drugs against pandemic illness and other serious...
This is a MedPage Today story.
The federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) fielded a massive influx of claims due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
CICP received approximately 27 times more claims in response to the COVID pandemic than it had received in the whole first decade of the program, which began in 2009 -- a total of 13,333 claims compared to just 491.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which runs the CICP, had made a decision on 3,483 of those claims, or 25%, as of June of this year.
Of the decided claims, 92 (3%) were found eligible to receive compensation for a serious injury or death directly caused by a covered countermeasure. Fifty-two of these were due to COVID countermeasures, 37 due to the H1N1 vaccine, and three due to smallpox and anthrax countermeasures.
To encourage the development of vaccines and drugs against pandemic illness and other serious...
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