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Quoting extensively from this, because it means no one can file lawsuits about the COVID shots causing harm for at least 5 years and possibly six: The federal government is protecting the manufacturers of COVID-19 and flu vaccines from product liability for another five years, on the cusp of a new administration likely to aggressively look for vaccine injuries and release its hidden books that Just the News went to court to obtain. Didn't hear about it? That's because the Department of Health and Human Services does not appear to have told the public outside a Dec. 11 Federal Register notice, primarily read by regulated entities, and a generic page buried deep within HHS's website. Outgoing agency Secretary Xavier Becerra's amendment to the declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act [PREP for short--vxb] for "COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures," enacted 19 months after President Joe Biden formally ended the COVID public health emergency, gives a perfunctory explanation for the liability shield's continuing necessity. "I have determined there is a credible risk that COVID-19 may in the future constitute such an emergency," says the 27-page notice written in Becerra's voice, dated Dec. 6, much of it rehashing previous amendments and requirements for "covered persons." "Congress delegated to me the authority to strike the appropriate federal-state balance with respect to Covered Countermeasures through PREP Act Declarations," he also says. "The 12th Amendment generally extends the protections clarified in the 11th Amendment" from May 2023, which ended some liability provisions and was set to expire Dec. 31, "through 2029," reads the PREP Act questions and answers page. The extension also covers COVID therapeutics administered "subcutaneously, intramuscularly, or orally" such as Pfizer's rebound-prone antiviral Paxlovid, whose efficacy Pfizer's own research has questioned. A section near the notice's end provides for "an additional 12 months of liability protection … to allow for the manufacturer(s) to arrange for disposition of the Covered Countermeasure," implying the shield will last the full decade. The Dec. 11 notice gives no explanation for the lengthy duration of the extension, three times longer than the previous amendment provided. Published a month after President-elect Donald Trump's victory, it covers the entirety of his pending administration. One X observer noted interesting timing: Pfizer's combination flu-COVID vaccine was supposed to finish Phase 3 clinical trials last month but failed an important benchmark this summer. "Pfizer would have to go through the normal licensing and approval process" with the Food and Drug Administration "and possibly lose legal immunity going forward" without this extension, the pseudonymous user wrote. PREP has been the Frankenstein creating this monster of near-infinite liability against lawsuits, and it needs to go.
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JCM
12/15/2024 5:52:54 PM
