Carolyn Hendler, JD November 21, 2023 READ
React19 provides information and financial and emotional support to COVID-19 vaccine injury victims. The nonprofit organization founded in 2021 by adult COVID vaccine-injured medical professionals and clinical trial participants offers programs and services to some 36,000 U.S. citizens and thousands more internationally.3
COVID Shot Injury Claims Are Covered by Special Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program
COVID shot injury claims, like all other vaccines authorized for distribution to the public through an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), fall under the federal Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). As EUA vaccines, the COVID shots are considered a covered medical “countermeasure” as defined by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) passed by Congress in 2005.4