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Questions in the Category: MMR

Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme

ME Essential Summer 2022

There was an interesting item on the BBC news ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61898694 ) about the first payment being made under something called the vaccine damage payments scheme (VDPS) to the relative of someone who had suffered a fatal adverse reaction to the Oxford Astra Zenca COVID-19 vaccine.

The BBC article also referred to a lady who “…..was unable to work for a year after developing VITT (vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia) and struggles with chronic fatigue, migraines and brain fog and fears her job could be at risk – but believes she will not be considered 60% disabled”.

As someone who has had a significant and prolonged (now over a year) relapse of ME following this vaccine do you think it is worth making a claim? And does this scheme also cover people who have developed ME after other types of vaccination?

Charles Shepherd

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