A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it’s an understatement to say that Americans are exhausted.
I’ve often found myself running between COVID-19 meetings asking “how did we get here?” Figuring out the “how” is essential to preparing for the future. In trying to make sense of these past 18 months, I’ve found it helpful to broadly categorize the U.S. pandemic journey thus far into five phases: Scramble, Learn, Respond, Test and Hope.
…The Conversation invited me to write a reflection piece about what we can learn from the past 18 months. It was published yesterday. And I can’t figure out how to copy and paste the HTML to Substack. Soo…. HERE is the link. Enjoy!
Love, YLE
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I hope the following information will help you and your union members.
The Federal government has a program - the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) - which covers individuals who are injured by a vaccine when it is a ‘countermeasure’ i.e., a “vaccination, medication, device, or other item recommended to diagnose, prevent or treat a declared pandemic, epidemic or security threat”. CoVid-19 falls under this category. See <https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp>
The following webpage describes the differences between the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/cicp-vicp
Also, on the Harvard Medical School website <https://hms.harvard.edu/news/covid-19-vaccine-safety>, there is an article discussing the recently published (Aug. 25) New England Journal of Medicine research article by researchers at the Clalit Research Institute in Israel, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is one of the largest studies to date of CoVid-19 vaccine safety, specifically, Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. In addition to assessing adverse consequences of the vaccine, it provides a comparison of adverse events among vaccinated individuals and those same events among unvaccinated individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2. In each category the adverse event was more serious in the unvaccinated individual infected with CoVid-19. cw
Katelyn - I'm not finding another place to ask this, so I'll put it here. I am the president of a union representing 20,000 Forest Service employees. With President Biden's announcement yesterday that feds will be required to be vaccinated, we are getting a lot of pushback about "who's going to pay for it if I end up injured by the vaccine?"
Sadly, the most prevalent information about the rate of serious COVID vaccine injury/illness is from sites that are hyping the injuries and opposing the vaccines. Do you have any good data on the incidence of
1.) Illness lasting more than 3-4 days;
2.) Hospitalizations;
3.) Long term ill effects;
4.) Anything else that can help us get the vaccine-resistant to see the vaccines as safe.
(I'm not so concerned about the anaphylaxis reactions, unless there is evidence that these types of reactions are significantly greater with any of the COVID vaccines than other types of vaccines.)
I just think this is an area where the bland CDC "serious side effects are rare" is not helping because we have so much quantitative data about other aspects of this situation that it looks like something is being hidden on vaccine safety.
This