by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News December 16, 2024
The Big Pharma producers of the Covid injections are getting another free pass from the Biden-Harris administration.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it has extended liability protection to the Covid shot makers and those administering the shots through Dec. 31, 2029. The extension takes effect Jan. 1, 2025.
The Biden-Harris administration ended its Covid public health emergency in May 2023. The latest extension of the liability shield for Covid injection producers is the 12th since January 2020, when HHS declared a public health emergency under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act).
The act provides legal immunity to “covered persons” who manufacture or administer countermeasures during a public health emergency, including vaccine makers, manufacturers of masks and other personal protective equipment, and physicians, nurses, and pharmacists who administer vaccines covered under the act.
"The extension comes amid growing calls for the vaccines to be paused or pulled from the market, based on reports of vaccine-related deaths and injuries," The Defender noted.
Kim Mack Rosenberg, general counsel for Children’s Health Defense, called the last-minute move by the Biden administration “very concerning” because it protects industry and the government and “allows for largely unfettered product development.”
Children's Health Defense CEO Mary Holland said the Biden administration in it waning days is “attempting to tie the hands of the incoming administration in its treatment of emergencies and pandemics. This is not the way elections and transfer of power are supposed to work.”
Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for Children's Health Defense, told The Defender it’s “no surprise at all” that HHS extended the liability shield.
“This is something I’ve been warning of — a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic that they want to last the rest of our lives,” Flores said. “It is preposterous that HHS extended PREP Act protections based on a no-longer-existing threat. The only threat is a loss of air-tight liability that leaves the vast majority of victims out of luck.”
Dr. Joel Wallskog, a Wisconsin orthopedic surgeon who no longer practices due to injuries he sustained from the Moderna Covid shot, told The Defender the extension “is disappointing.”
“The news is not surprising given the corruption of the current leadership of public health agencies,” said Wallskog, co-chairman of <a href="https://react19.org/">React19</a>, a nonprofit representing vaccine injury victims. “This decision has nothing to do with a COVID-19 ‘threat.’ This is purely to protect themselves from litigation and to prevent Americans injured by the COVID-19 vaccines from fair and just compensation.”
HHS Secretary Xavier Beccera claimed the extension is necessary because Covid poses a “credible risk” to public health now and in the future.
“I have determined that the spread of SARS-CoV-2 or a virus mutating therefrom and the resulting disease Covid-19 constitutes a credible risk of a future public health emergency,” Beccera said in the announcement.
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