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接种完Covid疫苗后出现了严重的副作用怎么办？律师指出：联邦政府已经批准辉瑞和Moderna这样的疫苗研发公司享有免责权。也就是说，如果它们的疫苗出现了任何意外问题，法院也不会受理该类起诉案件，疫苗公司更不会进行赔偿。
- 不能起诉疫苗研发公司
Dunn律师认为，对制药公司进行这种史无前例的保护措施，一个重要原因是时间紧迫。“当政府说希望研发速度比平时快四到五倍’！制造商很可能会回政府说：‘我们希望政府，保护我们免受数百万美元的诉讼’ ”Dunn律师解释说。
这项特赦法律，是卫生和公共服务部部长Alex Azar于今年2月援引了《公众准备和应急准备》法案。这项2005年的法律授权卫生部部长给生产或分销关键医疗用品（如疫苗）的公司提供法律保护，除非公司有“故意的不当行为”，否则保护期会持续到2024年。
这意味着，在接下来的四年里，患者不能在法庭上起诉这些医药公司。同样，要求赔偿等诉讼都不予受理。
- 不能起诉FDA
除了不能起诉医药公司，你也不能起诉食品和药物管理局授权紧急使用疫苗。加州大学哈斯汀法学院的教授Dorit Reiss说：“你不能因为批准或不批准某一药物而起诉FDA。这是主权豁免权的一部分。” Dunn律师解释说，主权豁免权就和你不能起诉国王一个道理，美国或者任何国家都有主权豁免权。
- 不能起诉要求你打疫苗的雇主
如果你的雇主把接种作为雇佣条件，你也不能让你的雇主承担责任。如果员工接种后出现了严重的副作用，可以使用工人的赔偿计划。根据该赔偿计划，这样可以算为工伤。然而，Dunn补充说：“员工获赔的金额有限，而且已经造成的损失不可逆。”
- 律师建议：考虑一下“国家疫苗伤害赔偿计划”（VICP）
考虑到CICP赔偿计划申请过程繁杂且低效。律师建议，卫生部设立的名为“国家疫苗伤害赔偿计划”（VICP）的项目其实更有效。该项目负责处理16种常规疫苗的索赔，被人们称为“疫苗法庭”。
从2006年到2018年，通过法院判决后的约70%的申请诉讼，该项目都给予了相应赔偿。自1988年开始考虑索赔以来，VICP已经支付了大约44亿美元的赔偿金。相比之下，CICP目前为止只赔偿了大约600万美元。而且VICP还会支付相应的诉讼费用。
If you experience severe side effects after getting a Covid vaccine, lawyers told that there is basically no one to blame in a U.S. court of law. The federal government has granted companies like Pfizer and Moderna immunity from liability if something unintentionally goes wrong with their vaccines.
In February, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act. The 2005 law empowers the HHS secretary to provide legal protection to companies making or distributing critical medical supplies, such as vaccines and treatments, unless there’s “willful misconduct” by the company. The protection lasts until 2024.
That means that for the next four years, these companies “cannot be sued for money damages in court” over injuries related to the administration or use of products to treat or protect against Covid.
“You can’t sue the FDA for approving or disapproving a drug,” said Dorit Reiss, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law. “That’s part of its sovereign immunity.”Sovereign immunity came from the king, explains Dunn, referring to British law before the American Revolution. “You couldn’t sue the king. So, America has sovereign immunity, and even each state has sovereign immunity.”
Anti-discrimination laws provide some protections as well. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, workers who don’t want to be vaccinated for medical reasons are eligible to request an exemption. If taking the vaccine is a violation of a “sincerely held” religious belief, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would potentially provide a way to opt out.
Should none of these exemptions apply, employees may have some legal recourse if they suffer debilitating side effects following a work-mandated Covid inoculation. Attorneys say claims would most likely be routed through worker’s compensation programs and treated as an on-the-job injury.?“But there are significant limits or caps on the damages an employee can recover,” said Dunn.
Lawyers told that it would make more sense for Covid vaccine injuries to instead be routed through another program under the HHS called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which handles claims for 16 routine vaccines. Known colloquially as “vaccine court,” the program paid on about 70% of petitions adjudicated by the court from 2006 to 2018.
And since it began considering claims in 1988, the VICP has paid approximately $4.4 billion in total compensation. That dwarfs the CICP’s roughly $6 million in paid benefits over the life of the program.
The VICP also gives you more time to file your claim. You have three years from the date of the first symptom to file for compensation.
“The VICP allows for recovery of pain and suffering, attorney’s fees, along with medical expenses and lost wages, if any,” said Michael Maxwell, a lawyer who practices in the areas of business litigation and personal injury. “Under the CICP, it’s only lost wages and out-of-pocket medical expenses. That’s it, unless there’s a death.” source
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