Most COVID Vaccine Injury Claims Not Compensated
The U.S. government has received thousands of COVID-19 vaccine injury claims. As of May 31, 2023, 8,208 people had filed requests for compensation with the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) after developing serious health problems following COVID shots.1 The CICP has only adjudicated 749 of the 8,208 injury […]
Government Proposes Making It Harder to Get Vaccine Injury Compensation
In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of proposed rule making in the Federal Register1 that would remove shoulder injuries and vasovagal syncope from the Vaccine Injury Table used by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). The proposed rule making would also eliminate Item XVII, whereby […]
