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Vaccine injury claims could face bureaucratic 'black hole'

by Bernard Condon & Matt Sedensky
| December 22, 2020 12:03 AM

Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most don’t know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure federal bureaucracy with a record of seldom paying claims.

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