Woman wants RFK Jr. to add COVID vaccine to injury table

A Florida woman who claims she was injured by the COVID vaccine sued U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this month, in an effort to compel him to add the vaccine to the Vaccine Injury Table.

Plaintiff Jeanne Materese filed her lawsuit Feb. 2 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division.

“By failing to add the COVID vaccine to the Vaccine Injury Table, the Secretary is obstructing and frustrating a process intended to ensure that Ms. Materese and others injured by newly recommended vaccines have access to a compensation process ‘as soon as possible,’” her 13-page complaint states.

In her filing, Materese alleges she suffered an adverse reaction to a COVID vaccination in August 2021 that left her with a severe platelet formation and blood clotting disorder.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, or VICP.

The VICP was created as an alternative to the tort ...