Nearly 14,000 Britons have applied for government payoutsdue to the harm caused by Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) injections, according to the Daily Expose.
The United Kingdom's Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), first established in 1979, is managed by the British Department for Health and Social Care. The VDPS offers a one-time payment of £120,000 ($157,080) to individuals who are severely disabled as a result of vaccination against certain diseases, including COVID-19.
The scheme has processed around 16,000 applications since its establishment. But is worth noting that as per recent figures obtained by the Telegraph, almost 14,000 of these are related to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The surge in claims has led to a significant increase in administrative support, with VDPS staff numbers rising from four to 80 last year. Despite the increase, only 175 payments have been approved – amounting to less than two percent of all applications. Payments have been granted for severe conditions such as stroke, heart attack, dangerous blood clots, spinal cord inflammation, excessive limb swelling, and facial paralysis.
The Telegraph also reported that thousands of claims have been rejected by medical assessors due to insufficient proof of vaccine-related harm or because the severity of the disability did not meet the 60 percent threshold required for payment. According to a government spokesperson, this aligns with the Department for Work and Pensions' standards for severe disability.
Moreover, 5,500 claims were outright rejected, while 519 were dismissed before a medical assessment. Of the nearly 350 claims where harm was acknowledged but deemed not severely disabling, applicants must demonstrate at least 60 percent disability to qualify. However, of nearly 1,000 requests for reconsideration, only 12 have resulted in reversed decisions.
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine responsible for most of the VACCINE DAMAGE
According to the Expose, AstraZeneca's adenoviral vector COVID-19 vaccine accounts for approximately 97 percent of the approved claims. One such case involved Leona Sanders, the wife of British race jockey Seb Sanders. Leona had developed transverse myelitis – a known adverse reaction to the AstraZeneca vaccine – after her second injection, with her condition worsening after the third.
Despite ongoing recommendations for the AstraZeneca vaccine in the U.K., many countries, including Germany, Italy, and France, had halted its use by March 2021. In response to reported cases of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT), AstraZeneca began withdrawing its vaccine in May 2021, citing the availability of newer vaccines better suited to targeting COVID-19 variants.
Critics have argued that the VDPS payment is insufficient to cover the legal costs or compensate for the profound impacts on individuals' lives. In turn, Downing Street has maintained that the VDPS is not a compensation scheme but a support mechanism for those seeking further damages through legal channels.
The issues with VDPS reflect a significant concern amid the 365,000 serious adverse events reported through the Yellow Card scheme, which include deaths. The Yellow Card Scheme is the British equivalent of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the United States. But just like its American counterpart, the cases being reported to the Yellow Card Scheme are believed to be just a fraction of the actual vaccine injuries caused by the COVID-19 injections.
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