14,000 injury claims

Freedom of Information requests, Almost 14,000 seek compensation, saying Covid vaccines left them disabled

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/17/covid-vaccine-astrazeneca-sick-victims-compensation-scheme/

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 Scheme (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

(< 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 decision