Proposed Rule Change to the Vaccine Injury Program

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In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) proposed a rule change to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) that, if adopted, would affect thousands of Americans who are injured by a vaccine. Traditionally, the national vaccine injury program provided compensation to individuals injured as the result of various categories of vaccines. Injuries that are recognized as compensable under the program are listed on tables published by DHHS. The so-called “table injuries” include shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) and vasovagal syncope. The proposed rule would remove these two injuries from the list o