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The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries. The statute, and numerous subsequent court decisions, recognized that vaccines, like all medicines, are, in the words of the American Academy of Pediatrics case, “unavoidably unsafe,” and that a percentage of vaccinated children will suffer injuries or death. Congress, therefore, simultaneously created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which obliged HHS to compensate injured children. In the words of then Labor and Public Welfare Committee Chairman Senator Edward Kennedy, “when ... children are the victims of an appropriate and rational national policy, a compassionate [g]overnment will assist them in their hour of need.”

Under the VICP, vaccine victims can petition for compensation to the so-called “Vaccine Court,” which pays out awards from a trust fund endowed by a 75-cent surcharge on every vaccine. Congress intended that injured children be compensated “quickly and fairly” for injuries, “either presumed or proven to be causally connected to vaccines,” with doubts about causation resolved in favor of the victim.

To date, the Vaccine Court has paid out $5.4 billion to 12,000 petitioners. But the VICP no longer functions to achieve its Congressional intent. Instead, the VICP has devolved into a morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption as government lawyers and the Special Masters who serve as Vaccine Court judges prioritize the solvency of the HHS Trust Fund, over their duty to compensate victims.

The structure itself hobbles claimants. The defendant is HHS, not the vaccine makers; and claimants are therefore facing the monumental power and bottomless pockets of the U.S. government represented by the Department of Justice. Furthermore, most of the Special Masters come from government, legal, or political posts, and typically display an extreme bias that favors the government side. There is no discovery, and the rules of evidence do not apply. The government lawyers do not allow children’s attorneys access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a taxpayer-funded CDC surveillance system that houses the best data on vaccine injuries. Attorney compensation is in the hands of notoriously biased Special Masters and often hostile government attorneys, who can leverage this power to turn petitioner attorneys against their clients' interests.

The VICP routinely dismisses meritorious cases outright or drags them out for years. Instead of “quickly and fairly” awarding compensation, Special Masters dismiss over half of the cases. Most of those that proceed typically take 5+ years to resolve, with many languishing for more than 10 years as parents struggle to care for children suffering with often extreme disabilities. Petitioners’ attorneys complain that the Special Masters make punitive downward adjustments to attorneys’ fees and medical expert fees to punish effective advocacy. Expert witnesses for injured children complain that they suffer intimidation and even threats that they will lose professional status or NIH funding if they testify for injured children. The government pays its own medical expert witnesses promptly while simultaneously slow-walking payments for petitioners’ experts—sometimes for years.

The VICP is broken, and I intend to fix it. I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals.

I am grateful to be working with AG Pam Bondi and HHS staff to fix the VISP.

Together, we will steer the Vaccine Court back to its original Congressional intent.

https://x.com/seckennedy/status/1949875225904005367?s=61

BREAKING: Multiple people were injured in a shooting at the Grand Sierra Resort, Nevada on Monday morning. People are asked to avoid the area. Authorities say a suspect is in custody.

The Reno Police Department warned residents to stay out of the area. Multiple emergency vehicles, including several ambulances, were seen outside the casino on Monday. Police haven't said how many people were injured.

https://www.foxla.com/news/reno-grand-sierra-resort-police-shooting

Updates will be provided as they become available.

UPDATE: "At approximately 7:25. Reno police officers responded to the Grand Sierra Resort on the report of an active shooter. Within minutes, our officers arrived on scene, located the suspect, and an officer-involved shooting occurred. Our officers then located several victims with gunshot wounds from the suspect. Those victims were then transported to a local hospital. The suspect in this case is currently in custody and there is no outstanding threat to the community."

Are we really safe anymore?
Concealed carry everyone. The grocery store, Walmart, a resort, a club, a holiday celebration, a concert, a movie☠

Ceasefire has started 🔥

Thermonuclear? 👀

🇮🇱 Netanyahu has told his cabinet minister's that the Trump Administration has green lighted the annexation plan.👀

HOMELAND  SECURITY POST TO ILLEGALS💥💥: DARKNESS IS NO LONGER YOUR ALLY!:

"TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA:

Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the United States, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down."💥

And definitely not too serious