Australia’s COVID-19 Shot Injury Compensation System Criticized for Delays and Alleged Threats
Australia’s COVID-19 shot injury compensation system is under scrutiny, with injured individuals describing a slow, complex, and distressing process that has left many without timely support while their health and financial situations worsen.1 2 The federal government introduced the COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme in 2021 as a “simple and quick” way to compensate people who […]
CDC Considers New Medical Code to Classify Vaccine Injuries
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering a proposal to formally recognize injuries associated with COVID-19 vaccinations as a diagnosable condition that can be recorded in medical records.1 The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), a standardized system used to classify diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures, could be updated under the proposal. Introduced […]
Canadian Government Overhauls Vaccine Injury Program
On Apr. 1, 2026, the Government of Canada assumed direct control of Canada’s vaccine injury compensation system, introducing changes aimed at improving how claims are processed and how support is delivered to vaccine injured individuals.1 The move followed an audit ordered by Health Minister Marjorie Michel in response to concerns about how the previous program […]
Patients Request Blood from Donors Who Have Not Received mRNA COVID-19 Shots
A growing number of patients are requesting blood transfusions from donors who have not gotten the COVID19 shot, according to a Mar. 28, 2026 report published in the journal Transfusion. In the report, researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center Medical Center evaluated 15 cases over a period of two years between 2024 and 2025 in which […]
FDA Launches New Consolidated Adverse Event Monitoring System
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the launch of a new Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS) that consolidates adverse event reporting systems for different types of products licensed by the FDA, including the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) that was created under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). The […]
Spike Protein from mRNA COVID Shots Detected in Placenta and Fetal Cells
A new peer-reviewed study has found spike protein and vaccine-derived mRNA in human placental tissue and fetal immune cells, including in mothers who were vaccinated before pregnancy and had no documented SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study, published Mar. 5, 2026 in PLOS One, analyzed 106 placentas from women who delivered between 2020 and 2022 and used […]