Updating Covid Vaccine Injuries and Deaths By Brian Simpson
Dr Mercola has just published a handy dandy summary of Covid-19 vaccine injuries and deaths. Here are some extracts for your consideration and judgment. What is interesting and informative here is that there is discussion about the injuries and how people are coping, or not coping in the US. On a slight tangent, suppose you did have an adverse reaction to a vaccine in Australia? Then can you get compensation? I did not know until I consulted the friendly ABC.net:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-07/vaccine-compensation-explainer-from-law-report/100107658
“Unlike about 25 other countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, Australia does not have a no-fault vaccine injury compensation scheme.
Clare Eves, the head of Shine Lawyers' medical practice division, says Australians have very few rights of recourse if they have a serious adverse reaction to a vaccine administered correctly.
"We have had people in the past who've attended our office who've had a serious neurological adverse outcome from the flu vaccine for example, like Guillain-Barre syndrome. If they are in that really small minority, there's very little that they can do in terms of accessing compensation or support," Ms Eves says.
She says people may have rights to recourse if there's a "fault" in the way the vaccine has been produced or administered, if it's been tampered with, or it's found to be unsafe for general use.
She stresses getting a vaccine from a "bad batch" is quite rare.
"Classic cases" where a person may have a case, she says, include where someone has been given a wrong dose, taken a vaccine orally when it shouldn't be given orally, or had a vaccine injected straight into the bloodstream instead of into the muscle.
"All vaccines have risks, and somebody's got to be that unlucky person that the risk falls upon," Ms Eves says.
The federal government has signed indemnity deals with two COVID-19 vaccine suppliers, including the University of Oxford, for the AstraZeneca jab, against liability for rare side-effects.
The details of the deals are unclear, but it appears the government would cover the bill for compensation if a member of the public won legal action against the drug company.”
There, I was worried, but it is just a matter of winning a legal action against vast corporate power! Sounds easy, if one has the money for an army of lawyers, and if one did you could not need to bother with compensation. Thus, if I face the small probability of a vaccine injury, with a compensation problem, what does the minimum regret principle of decision theory, based upon expected utilities, suggest that I do? Anyway, now back to the good Dr Mercola.
“Reports of deaths and serious injuries from the COVID-19 jabs have been mounting with breakneck rapidity. Those who look at the numbers and have some awareness of historical vaccine injury rates agree we've never seen anything like it, anywhere in the world. While data can be hard to come by for some countries, the ones we can check reveal deeply troubling patterns.
- United States —As of June 11, 2021, the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) had posted 358,379 adverse events,1including 5,993 deaths and 29,871 serious injuries. In the 12- to 17-year-old age group, there were 271 serious injuries and seven deaths. Among pregnant women, there were 2,136 adverse events, including 707 miscarriages or premature births.
All of these are bound to be undercounts as, historically, less than 10% of vaccine side effects are reported to VAERS. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services put it as low as 1%.
Be that as it may, the reported rate of death from COVID-19 shots now exceeds the reported death rate of more than 70 vaccines combined over the past 30 years, and it's about 500 times deadlier than the seasonal flu vaccine,7 which historically has been the most hazardous.
The COVID shots are also five times more dangerous than the pandemic H1N1 vaccine, which had a 25-per-million severe side effect rate. Assuming the COVID shots had the same side effect rate, and assuming some 200 million got the vaccine, the estimated number of people suffering a serious side effect would be about 5,000. We're well past that already, as 35,864 people have been seriously injured or killed.
Even though there are nearly 6,000 reported deaths in VAERS, this number is likely seriously compromised. I recently interviewed Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who has treated COVID patients quite successfully, and we discussed the very distinct possibility that everyone who receives the COVID jab may die from complications in the next two to three years.
He personally knows of 28 COVID jab deaths that were not accepted by VAERS. Zelenko suspects the number of deaths may exceed 100,000 already.
Getting the COVID jab immediately places the injected individual in the very high risk of dying from COVID. Most have the false assurance that they are protected, but in reality, they are far more vulnerable and as a result will not take very aggressive proactive measures to avoid dying from pathogenic priming or paradoxical immune enhancement before it is too late.
Please be sure and make a notation in your calendar to review my groundbreaking interview with Zelenko this Sunday, July 4, 2021, which is only three days away. We will review protocols you can use to protect you and your family or those you love, who now regret getting the COVID jab.
- European Union —In the European Union's database of adverse drug reactions from COVID shots, called EudraVigilance, there were 1,509,266 reported injuries, including 15,472 deaths as of June 19, 2021. EudraVigilance only accepts reports from EU members, so it covers only 27 of the 50 European countries.
Remarkably, about HALF of all reported injuries — 753,657 — are listed as "serious," meaning the injury is life-threatening, requires hospitalization, results in a medically important condition, significant disability or persistent incapacity.
- U.K. —The British Yellow Card system had received, as of June 9, 2021, 276,867 adverse event reports following COVID "vaccination," including 1,332 deaths.
- Israel —According to a report by the Israeli People Committee, a civilian body of health experts, "there has never been a vaccine that has harmed as many people." For example, Israeli data show boys and men between the ages of 16 and 24 who have been vaccinated have 25 times the rate of myocarditis (heart inflammation) than normal.
(Myocarditis is also affecting teens and young adults in the U.S. Although CDC officials say no confirmed deaths have been reported, at least two deaths have been linked temporally to the vaccine.)
- Australia —In Australia, two people have died from blood clots after taking AstraZeneca's COVID shot. Meanwhile, only one person — an elderly woman — has died from COVID-19 this year.
If Something Goes Wrong, You're on Your Own
The pain and suffering these shots have already created is hard to imagine. Clearly, millions around the world have had their lives turned upside down by them. Many may not recover, physically or financially. It's really important to realize that if something goes wrong, you're largely on your own.
Before you make the decision to participate in this unprecedented health experiment, it may be wise to assess your personal insurance and financial ability to handle a serious injury, as pandemic vaccine manufacturers are indemnified against lawsuits. You cannot sue them for damages. Nor can you sue the government or anyone else.
If you are injured by a COVID shot and live in the U.S., your only recourse is to apply for compensation from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Act (CICP), under which COVID-19 vaccines are a covered countermeasure. The CICP is run by a sparsely staffed agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Details and hyperlinks to benefit request forms can be found in the Congressional Research Service's legal sidebar, "Compensation Programs for Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries." You cannot apply for and will not receive compensation from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which covers other vaccines, including the flu vaccine.
Compensation from CICP is very limited and hard to get. In its 15-year history, it has paid out just 29 claims, fewer than 1 in 10. You only qualify if your injury requires hospitalization and results in significant disability and/or death, and even if you meet the eligibility criteria, it requires you to use up your private health insurance before it kicks in to pay the difference.
The average CICP award is $200,000, and death cases are capped around $370,000. Meanwhile, you can easily rack up a $1 million hospital bill if you suffer a serious thrombotic event.
There's no reimbursement for pain and suffering, only lost wages and unpaid medical bills. This means a retired person cannot qualify even if they die or end up in a wheelchair. Salary compensation is of limited duration, and capped at $50,000 a year. On top of all that, you cannot appeal the CICP's decision. Appeals simply get reviewed by another staff member in the same office.
Can You Afford a COVID Shot Injury?
Even if they can get it, CICP awards are likely to be a drop in the bucket for most people. The average award is $200,000, and death cases are capped at $370,376. Meanwhile, you can easily rack up a $1 million hospital bill if you suffer a serious thrombotic event.28 You must also pay for your own legal help and any professional witnesses you may need to support your claim.
In early June 2021, KRDO news reported on the case of Kendra Lippy, a 38-year-old woman who had no health complaints prior to getting her Johnson & Johnson shot. Within a week, she developed headaches, abdominal pain and nausea. Her diagnosis: Severe blood clots that progressed into multiple organ failure and coma.
She had to have most of her small intestine removed and will need total parenteral nutrition for the rest of her life — a feeding method that bypasses her gastrointestinal tract. She was hospitalized for 33 days, including 22 days in the intensive care unit. She now needs occupational and physical therapy to regain basic functions like walking, writing and holding a fork.
Lippy's hospital bill already exceeds $1 million, a sum she'll likely never be able to pay off, and there's no telling what kind of medical treatment she'll need in years to come. Clearly Lippy is headed for bankruptcy, and medical bills are the most common cause in the U.S.
Additional Stipulations That Make Payouts Rare
There are also time stipulations. You must file a request for benefits within one year of the date the vaccine was administered in order to qualify. This is a serious barrier, as serious side effects can take time to develop. For example, after the 2009 swine flu pandemic, people started reporting Guillain-Barre syndrome years after getting the pandemic H1N1 vaccine. At that point, they no longer qualified.
Worst of all, however, is the fact that it is now your responsibility to prove your injury was the "direct result of the countermeasure's administration based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical and scientific evidence beyond mere temporal association."
In other words, you basically have to prove what the vaccine developer itself has yet to ascertain, seeing how you are part of their still-ongoing study! The CICP is also notoriously secretive about why claims are approved or rejected. As reported by the Insurance Journal, "it doesn't release even the most basic details such as the kinds of sicknesses people claim they got from vaccines."
As of June 1, 2021, 1,360 Americans had sought compensation from the CICP for injuries and deaths arising from pandemic countermeasures, but only 869 were deemed eligible to file a claim. None has been adjudicated. Professor Peter Meyers, a former director of the Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic, who has referred to the CICP as a "black hole process,"33 warns that it's a "lousy program." He told Life Site News:
"It's a secretive, opaque program whereby some unknown officials within the Department of Health and Human Services will make decisions; we don't know how many people are adjudicating, who they are, or what the process is."
The secrecy means there are no official statistics on the types of injuries people are filing for, or what countermeasure is said to have caused their injury. By the way, vaccines are not the only countermeasures shielded from liability. Hospital treatment errors are shielded too, and we know some hospitals routinely killed patients, whether they had confirmed COVID-19 or not, by placing them on ventilators even when they didn't need it.
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