Link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-result-vaccine-liability-idUSKCN24V2EN
(Reuters) – AstraZeneca has been granted protection from future product liability claims related to its COVID-19 vaccine hopeful by most of the countries with which it has struck supply agreements, a senior executive told Reuters.
With 25 companies testing their vaccine candidates on humans and getting ready to immunise hundred millions of people once the products are shown to work, the question of who pays for any claims for damages in case of side effects has been a tricky point in supply negotiations.
“This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects,” Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra’s senior executive team, told Reuters.
ABC Radio National: 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.
The University of Sydney: “To encourage people to receive COVID-19 vaccines for the benefit of the entire community, we need compensation schemes to be in place if there is a rare but serious side-effect”, writes Associate Professor Nicholas Wood.
Australian Department of Health: The Scheme will provide Australians with quick access to compensation for COVID-19 claims related to the administration of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved COVID-19 vaccine delivered through a Commonwealth Government approved program.
Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, said the COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme offers protection to Australians receiving a TGA approved COVID-19 vaccine, irrespective of where that vaccination occurs.
“Side effects, or adverse events, from COVID-19 vaccinations can occur, but most are mild and last no longer than a couple of days. Serious and life-threatening side effects are very rare, but it is important that we provide a safety net to support those affected,” Minister Hunt said.
“It also ensure that health professionals administering vaccines will be able to continue with their crucial role in the vaccine roll out with assurance that the claims scheme will offer them protection.”
The Scheme will be administered by Services Australia and will provide Australians with a single front door to a simple and quick administrative process for compensation. The TGA will provide guidance on recognised adverse reactions as part of their established surveillance program.
From 6 September Australians who suffer injury and loss of income due to their COVID-19 vaccine will be able to register their intent to claim from the COVID-19 vaccine claims scheme webpage.
The Scheme will cover the costs of injuries above $5,000 due to a proven adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccination. Claims will be assessed by independent experts, and compensation paid based on the recommendations.
The cost of compensation payments under this Scheme will be fully funded by the Commonwealth and is designed to help the small number of people who unfortunately experience a moderate to significant adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine.
The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Scheme will be backdated to February 2021 and provide Australians with an alternative, administrative option to seek compensation, rather than a complex and costly court process.
Australians who receive a COVID-19 vaccination and have an adverse event are encouraged to report it to their doctor who can provide the information to the TGA to ensure such events are included in its reporting.
Vaccine Approvals in Australia:
Originally developed in Germany as a sedative, thalidomide was used in Australia in the 1950s and early 60s to relieve nausea in pregnancy. Unknown to mothers taking thalidomide for their morning sickness, the medicine could cause birth defects such as shortened or absent limbs, blindness, deafness or malformed internal organs.
Worldwide, more than 10,000 children are estimated to have been born with birth defects because of thalidomide use, with an estimated 40% of these children dying within a year(link is external). Thalidomide survivors continue to live with the impacts of the drug today.
Basic research reveal major flaws in all covid-19 vaccine trial results uncovered by national and international medial experts. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is responsible for assessing all COVID-19 vaccines before they can be used in Australia. They will only register a vaccine if its benefits are much greater than its risks. The vaccines they have approved are far from safe which outweighs all benefits.
With a full blown agenda to vaccinate our nation, governments have amassed a team of tutored medical experts, along with plastic coated unqualified bureaucratic spin doctors, who pedal covid serum to the Australian people with unprecedented vigor. Unlawful mandatory JABs are generated to unvaxinated people under threat their freedom being removed forcing compliance just to survive, to work,to feed their families, even to socialise.
With the Army, Police, mainstream media, radio and TV presenters, propaganda mongering are now government first line of attack, Developing anger amongst the vaccinated becoming the second wave of government control enforcers. Having established engineered discrediting ANYONE or EXPERT who dare running against government agenda it is time to stop this tide of pending disaster.
With prosperity prior to the covid shutdown, it is difficult to believe this first world country of just 25 million people would tolerate a handful of egoistical arrogant greedy politicians blackmailing their nation into surrendering their democratic freedom of choice to be locked in their homes, have their businesses closed down, ALL without any serious voice of dissent.
Further disappointments is those dictators in a parliament once belonging to the people, stand a very good chance of remaining in control by by votes of approval by the very people they are imprisoning and sending into destitution.
“WHERE HAVE ALL THE DIGGERS GONE”
Over 100,000 Australians lost their lives through war to save Australia, many more thousands being wounded ……FOR WHAT?
Murderers.
All of them.
EUO – Emergency Use Only
You should be aware that despite some subterfuge in the US implying an `approval’ for the Pfizer `vaccine’, this `approval’ relates strictly to the Comirnaty preparation; only the BioNtech EUO preparation will ever be manufactured for use in any case – because the Comirnaty `preparation’, though approved without ever having been manufactured, does not have the EUO immunity that was given to the BioNtech preparation. Legally, once the Cominaty preparation was approved for use, this renders the BioNtech preparation’s EUO approval, and immunity from legal action from adverse effects, null and void.
AND the hangmans SCAFFOLD needs to be erected in front of ALL of these gutless maggotts COWARDS castle , AND they will die in the arse when they realise whats in store ESpecially that grub HAZZARD he would have beat John landy in running from the supreme NSW court to his cowards castle.
Yeah ole mate we could also enlist Henry Winchester
bunnings need to order in a shitload of rope .for this treason the death penalty needs to apply .including the complicit media and the armed thug strong arm cop,s that won,t step back .absolute shame on them.
Where do we stand? Hopefully at the butt end off a shotgun. The law won’t protect us, so maybe Smith and Weston will.
At the end of your article you ask “WHERE HAVE ALL THE DIGGERS GONE”
Present serving diggers have gone to help the police who are stopping protests, and locking people in their homes. I would not rely on any diggers coming to our rescue, quite the opposite. Different world, different armed services – ADF.
QUOTE: “This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects,” Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra’s senior executive team, told Reuters.
So the COMPANY claims it cannot take the RISK but we HUMAN beings can? A brilliant moment of candor, great line, must quote it to anyone who demands you get injected. Somebody might wish to pass the information on to the participants in the NSW Supreme Court cases.
I will believe it when I see it but how do you claim if your dead, can your family claim?
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 at 12:03 PM