A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives requiring colleges that mandated the COVID-19 shots to pay the medical bills of students injured by the biological product. The University Forced Vaccination Student Injury Mitigation Act, sponsored by Congressman Matt Rosendale of Montana, would force colleges to pay a student’s medical bills or lose federal funding.1
Many Colleges Mandated or Incentivized the Experimental Jab
A number of colleges required the experimental mRNA COVID shot when it was first released under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) granted to Pfizer and Moderna by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Some colleges offered incentives and others warned that repercussions would follow for students who refused to get the shot, including dismissal from school.2
In 2021, colleges offered a variety of incentives to entice students take the novel biological product using unlicensed technology that injects synthetic mRNA encapsulated in nanoparticles into the body to program cells to produce a synthetic spike protein and antibodies to that protein.3 Purdue University went as far as holding a golden raffle for students who complied and got the shot.
The winning student got $9,992 or the equivalent of one year’s tuition. Students who took the shot at West Virginia University were entered into a raffle to receive laptops, gift certificates to Chick-fil-A and free zip lining classes. Missouri State gave away $150,000 worth of prizes donated by private donations to students who got the shot.4
On the other extreme like many other colleges, Cornell University mandated the controversial shot for all college students and penalized students who did not comply. The prestigious university used a COVID app to track a student’s vaccine status, along with COVID test results. By the end of 2021, Cornell required all students to get the original two COVID shots together with a booster shot or face “appropriate action.”5 6 In the fall of 2022, the University of Virginia went as far as disenrolling 238 students for failing to abide by the university’s COVID shot mandate.7
Colleges Hiding Behind the PREP Act
In 2021, legal experts suggested that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act would likely protect colleges from any liability for COVID shot adverse reactions stemming from mandated COVID shots when school personnel administered the shots themselves.8
The PREP Act, which went into effect in 2005, was part of a series of federal laws passed by Congress after 9-11. Known as “Bioshield” legislation, the laws granted more authority to public health officials and expanded liability protection for companies manufacturing “medical countermeasures” and individuals administering those products during a declared public health emergency. The PREP Act states that when the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) declares that a disease, health condition or threat to public health or threat of same constitutes an emergency, the Secretary may recommend the use of one or more countermeasures.9
The Prep Act sets forth:
Subject to the other provisions of this section, a covered person shall be immune from suit and liability under Federal and State law with respect to all claims for loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the administration to or the use by an individual of a covered countermeasure if a declaration under subsection (b) has been issued with respect to such countermeasure.10
Pay Up or Lose Funding
Rosendale seeks to end that liability shield when it comes to colleges. He warned:
If you are not prepared to face the consequences, you should have never committed the act, Colleges and universities forced students to inject themselves with an experimental vaccine knowing it was not going to prevent COVID-19 while potentially simultaneously causing life-threatening health defects like Guillain-Barre Syndrome and myocarditis. It is now time for schools to be held accountable for their brazen disregard for students’ health and pay for the issues they are responsible for causing.11
The bill provides that colleges, which fail to pay student’s medical bills associated with the COVID shot, would lose federal funding.
Joseph Marine, MD of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine supports the bill. He said:
It seems reasonable to me that institutions that implemented such policies without a sound medical or scientific rationale should take responsibility for any proven medical harm that they caused.12
The bill sets forth that students seeking compensation for medical expenses would submit a formal request along with their COVID shot record and certification from their medical provider explaining the complications from the shot and a detailed list of medical expenses. The current list of covered conditions includes pericarditis, myocarditis, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia, Guillain-Barre syndrome among other ailments determined by the U.S. Secretary of Education. The school would have 30 days to pay the expenses or challenge the request.13
As of fall 2024, 17 universities and colleges still require the COVID shots in order to get a college education.
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Click here to view References:1 Mondeaux C. Colleges must pay up for COVID-19 vaccine mandate injuries: GOP lawmakers. Washington Examiner Oct. 29, 2024.
2 Moody J. Colleges Requiring a Coronavirus Vaccine for Fall. U.S. News & World Report Aug. 12, 2021.
3 Goldman B. mRNA vaccine spike protein differs from viral version. Scopeblog (Stanford University) July 31, 2023.
4 Dey S. From Free Pizza To Free Tuition, Colleges Try Everything To Get Students Vaccinated. NPR Aug. 12, 2021.
5 Mondeaux C. Colleges must pay up for COVID-19 vaccine mandate injuries: GOP lawmakers. Washington Examiner Oct. 29, 2024.
6 Cornell Chronicle. Cornell announces booster requirement for spring semester. Dec. 21, 2021.
7 Reilly L. University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with university’s vaccine mandate. CNN Aug. 21, 2022.
8 Fisher D. Employers, colleges not likely liable for COVID vaccination side effects. Legal Newsline Apr. 2021.
9 Hendler C. NC Court Rules Federal PREP Act Protects Forced Vaccination Without Parental Consent. The Vaccine Reaction Apr. 8, 2024.
10 Emily Happel, individually, Tammer Smith, a minor et al. v. Guilford County Board of Education and old North State Medical Society, Inc. No. COA23-487. Mar. 5, 2024.
11 Mondeaux C. Colleges must pay up for COVID-19 vaccine mandate injuries: GOP lawmakers. Washington Examiner Oct. 29, 2024.
12 Bilger M. Lawmaker wants universities that still ‘recklessly’ require COVID vaccines to pay students’ medical bills. The College Fix Nov. 20, 2024.
13 Mondeaux C. Colleges must pay up for COVID-19 vaccine mandate injuries: GOP lawmakers. Washington Examiner Oct. 29, 2024.
13 Responses
In addition to this bill, there should be a serious effort underway to eliminate the PREP Act.
100%
In the long term some of these ailments caused by the vaccine are a death sentence..These university people( highly educated ?) should be charged with a crime , convicted and sentenced to prison.. That is the only way of preventing this from happening again!
Yes, but it was the threat of the loss of federal funding that drove these colleges to mandatory jabs in the first place. Of course, most of them may be woke and just followed along. Why don’t we just get rid of federal funding for colleges, all schools, all together?
You just hit the mail on the head! Why do we have to fund these Marxist indoctrination centers in the first place? And, just who are they, or the government, or anybody else, to mandate anything to us. The federal government does everything except fulfill the prime reason for its existence. Namely, protect us from our enemies foreign and domestic. Instead, they’ve become our worst enemy. Maybe we should stop funding the federal monster. It’s nothing but trouble. Hopefully, the RINO’s won’t bollox up the soon to be installed Trump Administration.
“ just following orders” was a very,long class I had to attend at Ft. Jackson army post in the 70’s. It was all about the implications of committing crimes when ordered by superiors. It was all about Lt Calley and the Me Li Massacre. The point was don’t think you can get away with doing things you know are evil just because some tin hat suggested it.
What about the military’s “brazen disregard” for service members’ health and pay for the issues they are responsible for causing? What about the DOD higher ups who colluded to destroy our military preparedness and continue to do so to this day? Where is their responsibility?
What about fake President Biden’s mandate that employers force the bioweapon on their employees?
What about the bioweapon manufacturers who received the transfer of taxpayers’ wealth into their coffers by lying and cheating and colluding with the government?
Why not sue Pfizer and all the rest of them into oblivion and jail the co-conspirators for life?
Why does this issue have to be tackled piece by piece? It needs to go a lot further.
Why not just dismantle the whole thing, cancel the alphabet agencies and the federal government, confiscate all their assets, and pay the American people back for their losses?
Suzy,
That is actually currently being addressed. Quite a few service members have sued the federal government.
Including my son. Federal Employees for Freedom was the group. Because Biden cancelled the mandate the courts cancelled my son’s paid-for lawsuit. There were thousands who signed up. Besides requesting religious exemption he was forced to retire from the military after 20 years and two Iraq war tours. They delayed his retirement because he was the number 1 recruiter in his area. Bastards. He is finally out and besides my son, I will never have to suffer through another awful deployment.
Their are too many problems.
1. vaccine injury should be covered under vaccine injury act.
2. it is expofaxto. it punish school for some thing they done before the bill
3. IL mandate college student that didn’t get vaccine to wait in long lines every week and have a COVID test stuck up there nose. who should pay the school or the governor?
What medical provider is going to give a certification letter with reference to complication and a list of detailed expenses….the parents gonna have a fight on their hands to secure that information! Hope they got all the copies of the paper work when their children started to become ill.
What about University staff who were threatened with termination for refusal to take the vaccine?
My daughter was forced to take the vaccine at her college in Virginia. A few months later, a very healthy young woman was receiving a diagnosis of an autoimmune marker that was making her sick. NO ONE in our family has that. I, as her mother, feel horrible that I did not advise her to just drop out of school until this was resolved, but I was afraid it would impede her studies (which it did anyway). This subject matter makes me so angry!