Sec. Kennedy is making some changes. Before I go into that, I’ll give you my background.
Chiropractors have a long history of being opposed to vaccine. The discoverer of chiropractic claimed that the cause of disease was subluxation of the spine. Although that was hyperbole, he made an additional statement. If vaccinations are of any benefit, your vaccinated children will not be harmed by my unvaccinated children.
I wasn’t vaccinated until I was about 12 years old. My parents wanted me to have the opportunity of natural immunity first. Natural immunity has proven to be stronger than artificial immunity derived from vaccines. A reason may be that more of the immune system is involved. When a virus enters your nasal passages or digestive tract, the immune response may start much sooner and go through a different process than when injected.
The idea that people will develop an immune response to a weakened or dead virus makes sense to me. If we can develop an immune response without getting the full-blown disease, that might save lives. In the case of injury, saving lives is not the question.
Many people don’t understand that vaccines can cause injury. In fact, drug manufacturers demanded that Congress pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act to shield them from liability. Part of the Act is VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) and VICP (National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program).
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has publicly proposed and is actively pursuing changes to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), also known as the “vaccine court,” along with related efforts for COVID-19 vaccine injured.
In July 2025, Kennedy criticized the program’s structure. HHS acts as the defendant rather than vaccine manufacturers. He claims the process dismisses or delays meritorious claims and said he is working with the Attorney General to address this.
Sec. Kennedy has discussed overhauling operations, potentially expanding the “injury table” (a list of presumed vaccine-related injuries and time frames for compensation), extending statutes of limitations, and making it easier/faster for claimants. Some advisers have suggested broader definitions of encephalopathy to include some cases of autism.
A process began in July to create a COVID-19 vaccine injury table under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). The change would presume certain injuries are caused by the shots. Compensation would be easier without proving causation in each case.
Billions of dollars have been paid out since inception of the program. Critics fear expansion will overwhelm the program, funded by a tax on vaccines. They also fear rising costs, and deterrence of vaccine production. Those fears seem legitimate.
Some people maintain that vaccines save lives. Others claim vaccines injure and kill people. Both claims can be true. It gets down to a cost/benefit analysis. We can’t do the analysis until we track the costs and benefits.
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