Just a few days ago, Susie reported that American Academy of Pediatrics were defying RFK, Jr’s anti-vaccine guidance.
Old Brain Worms took umbrage and blustered that the AAP would not be exempt from liability if they didn’t respect his anti-vax policy. The AAP aren’t very concerned about RFK, Jr’s threats:
Was Kennedy correct about the liability issue? “As has become common for Secretary Kennedy, this is misleading,” Dorit Reiss, PhD, a law professor at the University of California San Francisco, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday. “Whether a vaccine falls under VICP [the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, the part of the Vaccine Injury Act that deals with liability issues] has nothing to do with whether AAP recommends it, and the liability protections are not removed by this.”
“If a vaccine is covered by VICP, liability protections apply to manufacturers and administrators: anyone claiming a vaccine harm from a childhood vaccine that is under VICP has to go through the program first,” she said. “ACIP has not actually changed the current recommendations in ways that affect VICP.” Furthermore, “COVID-19 vaccines for children are not under VICP, but that’s not because of anything AAP did or the secretary, even, did — it’s because Congress has not yet legislated to create an excise tax for COVID-19 vaccines, and until Congress does that, they’re not within VICP.”
