The federal government is protecting the manufacturers of COVID-19 and flu vaccines from product liability for another five years, on the cusp of a new administration likely to aggressively look for vaccine injuries and release its hidden books that Just the News went to court to obtain.
Didn't hear about it? That's because the Department of Health and Human Services does not appear to have told the public outside a Dec. 11 Federal Register notice, primarily read by regulated entities, and a generic page buried deep within HHS's website.
Outgoing agency Secretary Xavier Becerra's amendment to the declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for "COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures," enacted 19 months after President Joe Biden formally ended the COVID public health emergency, gives a perfunctory explanation for the liability shield's continuing necessity.
