by The Vigilant Fox at The Vigilant Fox Substack
It’s finally happening. This changes everything.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just took aim at a system that has failed families for nearly 40 years, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
This program was created under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which shielded vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits over injury claims.
Before becoming HHS Secretary, Kennedy exposed how vaccine manufacturers were being hammered with lawsuits due to injuries.
One of the largest manufacturers at the time, Wyeth (now part of Pfizer), reportedly told President Reagan: give us legal protection or we’ll stop making vaccines.
Reagan’s response? Why not just make safer vaccines?
Wyeth’s answer: Vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.”
That phrase—“unavoidably unsafe”—would later appear in a Supreme Court decision and reflects the legal premise that some vaccine injuries are inevitable.
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