About 14 thousand Britons have turned to the authorities for payments due to complications caused by coronavirus vaccines.
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Around 14,000 people in the UK have applied for government payments due to alleged harm caused by COVID vaccines.
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Since the Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (VDPS) began operating in Britain in 1979, a total of 16,000 claims have been made, making claims for payments due to the effects of coronavirus vaccines the vast majority.
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More than 5.5 thousand applications were rejected, in 519 cases the application was not considered even until the stage of medical examination. About a thousand people demanded that their case be reconsidered, but only 12 of them managed to achieve payment.
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It is noted that about 350 applications were rejected because doctors decided that the vaccine did not “lead to severe disability,” although they recognized the harm from the drug. To assign compensation, the loss of ability to work must reach 60%.
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Britons who have received payments receive a lump sum of 120 thousand pounds sterling, but to date the government has made payments only in 175 cases.
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The payments awarded were linked to conditions such as stroke, heart attack, dangerous blood clots, inflammation of the spinal cord, excessive swelling of the limbs and facial paralysis. It is clarified that in 97% of cases of all agreed payments, people were administered the drug from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca; Pfizer and Moderna accounted for a small number of compensations.
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Despite concerns raised and a rising number of blood clots, the UK government continued to recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine even as the vaccination campaign was halted in Germany, Italy, France and several other European countries by March 2021.
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In May, AstraZeneca admitted for the first time that its COVID vaccine may cause a rare side effect, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.
