A government’s treatment of the most vulnerable is a sound test of its morality. Unfortunately, one need look no further than our government’s treatment of the group of Americans suffering from serious, often debilitating, adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination to determine that Capitol Hill’s moral compass is indeed broken.

These Americans “did the right thing” by rolling up their sleeves at the urging of government officials and federal health agencies. They now find themselves with serious medical conditions such as cardiovascular injuries including myocarditis and pericarditis, neurological conditions like Guillain-Barre’ Syndrome, and life-altering tinnitus to name a few.  Many are unable to work because of new physical limitations and most face insurmountable medical bills.  

Unfortunately for the injured, the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) provides near bulletproof immunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Pfizer and Moderna.  The COVID-19 vaccine injured are forced to lodge claims with an inefficient and inadequate program known as the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).  Significantly, the COVID-19 vaccine injured are not eligible for compensation under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) – the federal program created by the NCVA for those injured by vaccines such as MMR and flu.

Due to its unrealistic filing deadline, impossible standard of proof, paltry benefits, blatant conflicting interests, and lack of judicial review, the CICP has currently rejected 97% of claims - compensating just eight individuals nationwide for a total of less than $29,000.  In contrast, React19’s own CAREFUND program has directly compensated more than one hundred injured Americans with total awards exceeding $750,000.

Fortunately, the cries of the COVID-19 vaccine injured have been heard by some in the halls of Congress.  Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) has introduced the comprehensive bipartisan Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act (H.R. 5142) and the Vaccine Access Improvement Act (H.R. 5143).  This legislation would not only transfer COVID-19 injury claims to the VICP, but would also make that program far more efficient with increasingly robust benefits for the injured.

Would passing H.R. 5142 and H.R. 5143 sufficiently make up for the government’s abysmal treatment of the COVID-19 vaccine injured?  Of course not.  But it’s a great place to start.

                                           TAKE ACTION!!!

Those injured by the COVID vaccines have been abandoned by the very government they trusted with their lives. 

The COVID vaccine injured deserve to be recognized.  They deserve to be researched.  They deserve to be rehabilitated.  Comprehensive reform of the CICP and VICP programs is a vital step in achieving these goals.

By signing this petition, you stand in solidarity with the COVID vaccine injured, sending a clear message to Washington D.C. that the time for action is now!