The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy

Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by mizzack on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:15AM (#33247508)

This is misinformation. COVID-19 vaccines aren't covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [0], but the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) [1]

But wait, there's more!

> Will the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program provide compensation to individuals injured by COVID-19 vaccines? [2]

> ...For a category of vaccines to be covered by the VICP, the category of vaccines must be recommended for routine administration to children or pregnant women by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, subject to an excise tax by federal law, and added to the VICP by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. No COVID-19 vaccines currently meet this criteria.

So, no, there is not a mechanism in place to offset those.

[0] https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation [1] https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp [2] https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/faq

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Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by hotpotamus on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:24AM (#33247671)

Fair enough, I did not mean to imply that it would be covered; I don't know those details. All I'm saying is that it has been recognized for sometime that there are vaccine injuries, but the net benefits of them to public health have been large.

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Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by mizzack on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:28AM (#33247719)

Agreed, it's a valuable program. Just not (currently) relevant to the discussion of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

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