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Vaccine Injury Blog

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What is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program?

David Tierney

2 min

What is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program?

When there is a risk of a vaccine injury for certain vaccines, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program provides an avenue for an injured...

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What Are the Most Common Vaccine Injuries?

Glen Sturtevant

1 min

What Are the Most Common Vaccine Injuries?

Thankfully vaccines are virtually painless and risk-free in the vast majority of cases. The medical field, however, does recognize that...

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Funding the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)

Whit Long

2 min

Funding the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)

The United States has the safest, most effective vaccine supply in history, and, in the majority of cases, these vaccines produce no side...

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Fainting After a Vaccine: Is it a Covered Injury?

David Tierney

2 min

Fainting After a Vaccine: Is it a Covered Injury?

The vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) was created to ensure that vaccine recipients could be compensated for vaccine-associated...

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How can you prove a Vaccine Injury for Compensation?

David Tierney

1 min

How can you prove a Vaccine Injury for Compensation?

If you believe you have been injured by a vaccine, there are two paths to showing that you are entitled to compensation. For some...

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Rawls Law Group

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Reporting Adverse Vaccine Events

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is an early warning system designed to help the CDC and FDA monitor health problems...

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Whit Long

1 min

How common are vaccine injuries?

Are you afraid of an injury after receiving a vaccine? It’s a relatively common concern; however, the chances of it happening are very...

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David Tierney

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Why does SIRVA happen during a vaccine?

Most of us have experienced some pain, swelling, or redness after receiving a vaccination. A small amount of pain for a short while is...

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How Do I Know if I have a Vaccine Injury Case?

Glen Sturtevant

1 min

How Do I Know if I have a Vaccine Injury Case?

You should consult with a vaccine injury attorney to know if you have a viable vaccine injury case. The National Vaccine Injury...

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Risk for Bursitis After Influenza Vaccine?

Whit Long

1 min

Risk for Bursitis After Influenza Vaccine?

Flu vaccinations are most commonly given in the upper, non-dominant arm. Although rare, sometimes the medical provider giving the vaccine...

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David Tierney

1 min

Can vaccines cause seizures?

Seizures are spasms that are common in some conditions such as epilepsy. Seizures can often also happen when a person has a fever -...

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David Tierney

2 min

What are the signs of a Vaccine Injury?

Vaccines are an integral part of public health and serve as one of the most effective tools in preventing infectious illness and disease....

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Will a coronavirus vaccine be covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?

Glen Sturtevant

1 min

Will a coronavirus vaccine be covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?

According to news reports, experimental COVID-19 vaccine trials are underway, involving upwards of 250,000 volunteers receiving various...

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Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) and Vaccines

Whit Long

2 min

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) and Vaccines

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a rare autoimmune disorder in which a person’s own immune system mounts an...

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Natural Flu Remedies or the Flu Shot? What are the Risks Involved?

David Tierney

5 min

Natural Flu Remedies or the Flu Shot? What are the Risks Involved?

The Flu: Inconvenience or Danger? During this pandemic, many of us are paying special attention to the topics of disease,...

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HHS Wants to Remove SIRVA from the VICP, but Fails to Show Up

David Tierney

2 min

HHS Wants to Remove SIRVA from the VICP, but Fails to Show Up

Vaccine injuries are extremely rare. Often, we think of vaccine injuries has having been caused by the vaccine's themselves or the...

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David Tierney

2 min

Vaccine Awards in the VICP

The United States has the safest, most effective vaccine supply in history, and, in the majority of cases, these vaccines produce no side...

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David Tierney

2 min

Bursitis Caused by the Flu Shot

Bursitis of the shoulder is an inflammation of a fluid-filled sac which allows the tendons and bones of your shoulder joint to move and...

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Whit Long

2 min

GBS and the Flu Shot

Guillain-Barre Syndrome (“GBS”) is a rare disorder in which a person’s own immune system damages their peripheral nerves, causing muscle...

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Glen Sturtevant

1 min

Shoulder pain just from the flu shot?

We hear it from clients all the time—I was getting my annual flu shot and the pharmacist (or nurse, doctor, etc.) injected the needle...

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