Bureaucratic âblack holeâ awaits injury claims from coronavirus vaccine
Experts are concerned that with 200 million people expected to get vaccines, even a rollout with few ill effects could swamp the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.
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Christina Grim holds a family photograph Saturday that includes her mother, Verl Grim. Grim of Littlestown, Pa., contends that an H1N1 vaccination caused her mother s death in 2010. [ STEVE RUARK | AP ]
Published Dec. 22, 2020
Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most donât know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure federal bureaucracy with a record of seldom paying claims.
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