Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
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Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
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Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#3> Many COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers have required that countries indemnify them for any adverse events suffered by individuals as a result of the vaccines, the United Nations says. Where governments are not in control, that is not possible. The concerns affect people, such as those displaced by the Myanmar, Afghanistan and Ethiopian crises, who are beyond the reach of national governments' vaccination schemes.
Stateless humans have more legal protection than stateful humans?
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#4So these companies get swaths of subsidies. They get price agreements with the liberty to bump it with double digit percentages. They get waivers for any and all responsibilities and orders en masse. Yet helping the hopeless and poor is too much to ask in fear of lawsuits. What a shameful situation.
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#5So these companies get swaths of subsidies. They get price agreements with the liberty to bump it with double digit percentages. They get waivers for any and all responsibilities and orders en masse. Yet helping the hopeless and poor is too much to ask in fear of lawsuits. What a shameful situation.
Why do they waive responsibility though
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#6> Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) of the United States confirmed it would waive a requirement for indemnity for deliveries from the buffer: "We are proud to be part of this effort to protect the world's most vulnerable people," said Paul Stoffels, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer. He did not elaborate.
The maker of the most dangerous-side-effect-laden vaccine available being willing to waive liability really takes the wind out of the sails of other drug companies claiming the liability burden is too great.
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#7So these companies get swaths of subsidies. They get price agreements with the liberty to bump it with double digit percentages. They get waivers for any and all responsibilities and orders en masse. Yet helping the hopeless and poor is too much to ask in fear of lawsuits. What a shameful situation.
Why do they waive responsibility though
It is not possible to sue vaccine manufacturers if you are injured/killed. You (or your family if you are killed) have to go to a special court and very likely lose your case. In the unlikely event you win, the government pays you, not the manufacturers.
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#8> Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) of the United States confirmed it would waive a requirement for indemnity for deliveries from the buffer: "We are proud to be part of this effort to protect the world's most vulnerable people," said Paul Stoffels, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer. He did not elaborate. The maker of the most dangerous-side-effect-laden vaccine available being willing to…
It's because the side effects are known, and the patient is warned about them - so they can't sue for that.
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#9So these companies get swaths of subsidies. They get price agreements with the liberty to bump it with double digit percentages. They get waivers for any and all responsibilities and orders en masse. Yet helping the hopeless and poor is too much to ask in fear of lawsuits. What a shameful situation.
Why do they waive responsibility though
They don't waive more than what was defined in the PREP Act[0], they're exempt because it's an emergency and all evidence points at the treatment being better than the disease, and its production, distribution and administration is under government request.
This was enacted in 2005, shortly after the original SARS, partially because pharma companies were reluctant to mass produce any novel vaccine/drug under government request only for it to possibly bite their asses.
Another motivation for this was 2001, and the increasing potential threat of bioterrorism; companies lose any incentives to be responsive in the wake of such an attack.
This is just actuarial science: a relatively rare but serious side effect (i.e. not found in trials), when put on a massive scale, becomes a big enough threat for the economic viability of the company.
[0] https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/default...
Re: Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits, documents show
#10Governments are also indemnifying the people who do not want to get the vaccines and are spreading covid through their behavior (no masks, not distancing, no isolating).
It would be interesting to see what would happen if families of people that die from covid-19 in coming months/years bring a negligent homicide lawsuits against some of the prominent advocates of the above mentioned behavior.