Liability for COVID-19 Vaccine Harms: We Need to Do Better
There are two key reasons why no-fault compensation is preferable to the regular torts system for handling claims of vaccine harms.
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Read more: The Impossibility of Legal Accountability for COVID-19 Torts The Impossibility of Legal Accountability for COVID-19 Torts
Torts scholars reflect on questions surrounding whether and how entities might be held liable for the harms associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Read more: Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice
Can young people consent to COVID-19 vaccinations?
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Read more: Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access
Bureaucratic tape is causing delays in distributing these critical vaccines to our youngest children.
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Read more: Remember the Babies: The Need for Off-Label Pediatric Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Remember the Babies: The Need for Off-Label Pediatric Use of COVID-19 Vaccines
The CDC is failing parents by preventing off-label use of our existing COVID-19 vaccines in the under-five set.
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Read more: Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited? Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
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Read more: Congress Should Enact No-Fault Compensation for COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries Congress Should Enact No-Fault Compensation for COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
If COVID-19 vaccines lead to any serious harms, society should compensate those victims generously and quickly.
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Read more: Why the Government Shouldn’t Pay People to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Why the Government Shouldn’t Pay People to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Paying for vaccination is dubious public health policy likely to backfire in terms of (re)building public trust in vaccines.
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Read more: More on the ECJ Vaccine Liability Decision More on the ECJ Vaccine Liability Decision
By Alex Stein My friend and mentor, the former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak, used to say that when neither side likes the court’s decision, chances are that the court was right. This is likely to be the case with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision on vaccine manufacturers’ liability, N.W. et al. v. Sanofi…
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Read more: Vaccine Liability in Europe: A New Development Vaccine Liability in Europe: A New Development
By Alex Stein Yesterday, the European Court of Justice has issued an important ruling on vaccine manufacturers liability. N.W. et al. v. Sanofi Pasteur MSD, C‑621/15. This ruling triggered a hailstorm of criticism from different media outlets, including CNN. These outlets, however, have largely misreported the ruling and its underlying reasons, partly because of this misleading…