Mirela Gherban
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that a newly appointed team will look for ways to widen the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in a bid to reimburse what he identified as “COVID vaccine-injured people.”
In an interview with The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday, RFK Jr., a well-known vaccine skeptic, said that the program established under the 1986 Vaccine Act to resolve vaccine injury petitions “has devolved into lawyers from the Justice.”
“We just brought a guy in this week who’s going to be revolutionizing the vaccine injury compensation program,” RFK Jr. said in response to a question about compensating people who allegedly faced side effects due to COVID-19 vaccines.
“We’re looking at ways to enlarge that program so that COVID vaccine-injured people can be compensated. And we’re changing the program so that we’re looking at ways to enlarge the statute of limitations, only three years.”
He later added that an entire team has been assembled for the purpose, and their work will get underway this week.
COVID-19 vaccine developers: Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)/ BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AstraZeneca (AZN), Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX).
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