Freedom of Information requests, Almost 14,000 seek compensation, saying Covid vaccines left them disabled
British applications for alleged harm caused by Covid vaccines
Payments awarded so far for:
Stroke
Heart attack
Dangerous blood clots
VITT
Inflammation of the spinal cord
Excessive swelling of vaccinated limb
Facial paralysis
(Around 97% of claims paid so far are for AstraZeneca)
UK government
Continued to recommend AstraZeneca,
After being stopped in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Sweden and Latvia by March 2021.
Vaccine Damage Payment Sc
...heme (VDPS)
Founded in 1979
Around 16,000 applications
5,500 turned down by medical assessors
No concrete proof that the vaccine caused harm,
“not disabled enough”.
175 cases awarded £120,000 so far
(less than 2% of applications)
519 claims turned down before a medical assessment
1,000 people have asked for their cases to be reconsidered,
12, decision reversed and they will receive a payment.
350 claims, accepted the vaccine caused harm, but,
not “caused severe disablement”
(Applicants must be 60% disabled)
700 people have been waiting over a year for a decisionShow more