Why the COVID vaccine isn't part of an injury compensation court
At that time, families who said their children had been injured by the vaccine successfully sued the drug manufacturers in civil court. This caused all but one of those drug companies to stop production of the DTP vaccine.Members of Congress and public health officials were concerned that if vaccine manufacturers weren't given some form of legal protection, they might stop other vaccine production, putting the public health at risk. In response, Congress passed a bipartisan bill establishing the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
- ▪At that time, families who said their children had been injured by the vaccine successfully sued the drug manufacturers in civil court.
- ▪This caused all but one of those drug companies to stop production of the DTP vaccine.Members of Congress and public health officials were concerned that if vaccine manufacturers weren't given some form of legal protection, they might stop
- ▪In response, Congress passed a bipartisan bill establishing the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
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60 Minutes Overtime Why the COVID vaccine isn't part of an injury compensation court .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-60-minutes-overtime.jpg'); } By Brit McCandless Farmer Updated on: July 26, 2026 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google From inoculations against polio and smallpox to protections from measles and tetanus, vaccines are critical health care tools that have saved more than 150 million lives in the past 50 years.Rarely, they can also have side effects.This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Jon Wertheim reports on vaccine court, a little-known legal forum that has, for almost four decades, been compensating Americans who say they were injured by vaccines.
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