A group of 95 people who developed health problems or lost relatives as a result of rare side-effects of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine say they have been let down by the "out-of-date" government payment scheme.BBC News has since learned two more people have been told they will receive payments.
VITT causes a very unusual combination of blood clotting and an inability to stop excessive bleeding, which in an even smaller number of cases can be fatal.The risk of a healthy but unvaccinated 40-year-old man dying if he catches Covid is about 100 times higher. Even the maximum payment of £120,000, which is not guaranteed, would be "nothing compared to what we've lost" in earnings, she says.Although even uncontested medical-compensation claims commonly take up to two years - and much longer in complex claims - other countries, such as Norway, paid out the first people injured after vaccination in July 2021.
Claimants have to prove they are at least 60% disabled, he says, a rule borrowed from old compensation schemes for industrial accidents such as crush injuries in mines.
Good luck...they make it as difficult as possible.