Compensation boards not paying out on Covid vaccine injuries

Compensation boards aren’t paying out to those who have been permanently injured from one of the Covid-19 vaccinations.

In the UK, around 17,500 people have applied to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) for compensation, but just 188 have received payments.  Even those whose claims are believed still must demonstrate at least a 60 percent disability from the vaccine.

The US’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), a subset of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Board, says that less than 3 percent of claims are even eligible, suggesting the vast majority are being thrown out in the initial stages of review.  It has seen a 27-times rise in claims, mainly from the Covid mRNA and the H1N1 flu jabs, but of the 13,333 injury claims received, the board has paid out on just 92 of them.

The UK’s languid Covid inquiry heard from victims of the vaccinations—mainly the AstraZeneca jab—recently.  Kelly Hatfield, who set up the Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK (VIBUK) campaigning group after her father died from a reaction to a Covid vaccine, told the inquiry: “We trusted the government, we trusted the science and we have suffered devastating consequences.”

UK health secretary Wes Streeting wants to lower the bar for compensation and take it way below the current level.  In a letter to Kate Scott, the wife of a man who was left with permanent brain damage after getting the AstraZeneca jab, Streeting said he is planning an urgent review of the compensation scheme.  “There is no other word for this than ludicrous.  If your injury equates to just 10 percent change, that’s life-changing for you.  It might mean you can’t work anymore,” he wrote.

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