National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
In 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed by congress removing liability from vaccine manufacturers and health care providers. When the law was passed, there were only 7 vaccines in the recommended schedule. Vaccine injury claims were piling up and manufacturers could not keep up with the lawsuits. Due to the lawsuits, manufacturers threatened to stop producing vaccines (some halting production altogether) and health care providers threatened to stop administering them, dramatically reducing vaccination coverage in the US. With a fear of "vaccine preventable diseases" reemerging, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury was passed, and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created 2 years later in 1988.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/history/index.html
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
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With the passage of this law, the Department of Human Health and Services was supposed to monitor and submit vaccine safety reports to Congress every 2 years. This was to make sure that while manufacturers weren't liable, the products were still safe.
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In 2018, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and Robert F Kennedy Jr. submitted a Freedom of information request for the safety reports. After being ignored for months by the Department of Human Health and Services, ICAN sued. It was finally admitted in court that the Department of Human Health and Services did not monitor vaccine safety since 1988, they had 0 reports to share.
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This lawsuit win and admittance brought forth an extreme case of neglect regarding vaccine safety for over 30 years.
https://www.worldhealth.net/news/rfk-jr-wins-case-against-government-vaccine-safety-violations/
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