Government Pays $2.5 Million to Person Injured by COVID Vaccine — But 98% of Claims Are Denied [Article from 5/3/25]

A U.S. taxpayer-funded program to provide compensation for COVID-19 vaccine injuries recently awarded over $2.5 million for a single vaccine-related injury.

The compensation, issued by the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), was revealed as part of CICP’s most recent update, published this week for the period ending Feb. 1.

It is one of just 26 COVID-19 vaccine injury claims the program has approved for payment so far — out of a total of 14,234 claims filed.

The payout compensates an unnamed person for injuries associated with thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), a blood-clotting disorder that was most commonly linked to the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca shots but also sometimes reported after the Pfizer and Moderna shots.

It is one of six COVID-19 vaccine injury awards made between Dec. 2, 2024, and Feb. 1, 2025, and it is the largest payout from the CICP so far.

Except for one $370,376 payment approved in August 2024 that experts say likely compensated for a death, all of the CICP payments approved to date have been under $13,000, with most averaging under $3,500.

Most payments were for myocarditis injuries.

Wayne Rohde, an expert in vaccine injury compensation, said many are asking whether this large payment is a sign that under the Trump administration, more and higher compensation will be granted to vaccine-injured people.

“No,” he said, “it doesn’t. But it does mean that there’s a lot of people who are severely injured and need proper medical care, and they’re not getting it.”

Rohde said the award also “serves as a notice to our elected officials that they need to get their act together and figure out what to do with these thousands of people that have filed petitions and are just pending.”

Rohde, who is also the author of “The Vaccine Court: The Dark Truth of America’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,” said that in the two months since the last CICP-approved payment had been posted, the program had only processed six awards — and it dismissed about 140.

Dr. Joel Wallskog, a Wisconsin orthopedic surgeon injured by Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, said these numbers demonstrate that CICP is a “dismal failure.” It is supposed to be a safety net for the vaccine injured, he said, but there is a 98% denial rate.

“The CICP budget for 2025 is $10 million dollars — $1 million for actual injuries, and $9 million for administrative costs of the program,” he said. “Can you imagine a private business that actually budgets for 90% overhead? It would be out of business.”

Wallskog, who serves on the board of React19, an advocacy group representing thousands of vaccine-injured people, added:

“In my opinion, this is evidence of our government and federal regulatory agencies abusing the COVID-19 vaccine-injured community. They will continue to do whatever necessary to dismiss us, censor us, and downplay our injuries.

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