Colleges would be made to pay for COVID vax injuries due to mandates under proposed bill
“It is now time for schools to be held accountable for their brazen disregard for students’ health and pay for the issues they are responsible for causing”
-Rep. Matt Rosendale.
From the Washington Examiner:
Colleges could become liable to pay for medical costs for students who experienced adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine under a new law being introduced by House Republicans.
Under the University Forced Vaccination Student Injury Mitigation Act, filed by Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) on Tuesday, colleges and universities that imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates on campuses would be required to pay for the costs or be at risk of losing federal funds from the Education Department.
“If you are not prepared to face the consequences, you should have never committed the act,” Rosendale said in a statement. “Colleges and universities forced students to inject themselves with an experimental vaccine knowing it was not going to prevent COVID-19 while potentially simultaneously causing life-threatening health defects like Guillian-Barre Syndrome and myocarditis. It is now time for schools to be held accountable for their brazen disregard for students’ health and pay for the issues they are responsible for causing.” (emphasis mine)
Under the legislation, students could seek reimbursement for medical costs through a formal request that includes a record of COVID-19 vaccination, certification from a medical provider that the vaccine caused some sort of disease, and a detailed account of medical expenses.
Diseases covered by the legislation include myocarditis, pericarditis, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Gullian-Barre Syndrome, and other diseases that the secretary of education determines are associated with a COVID-19 vaccine.
You can read the bill here.
It’s a long shot, but I’d like to see this happen. And I’m happy to see it at least discussed.
Based on what I learned following the funding and decision-making path at Rutgers, college COVID vaccine mandates were a lucrative business model that exploited students and advanced larger agendas that were unsupported by actual science.
Since it’s $1 billion deal with RWJBarnabus, Rutgers has become something of a clinical trial factory. And it was entirely by design.
Academic health care systems and public-private partnerships are all the rage. Here’s Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom describing the benefits of this arrangement:
RWJ Barnabas has committed to a $1 billion investment over the next 20 years in facilities and services. Ostrowsky couldn’t say exactly where or how the bricks and mortar side of the deal will happen, but Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom said the added capacity of Barnabas will have an impact on the bottom line by helping the new entity get a larger slice of grants and clinical studies.
“We can go to contract for research with pharma and NIH [National Institutes of Health] and other agencies, saying we have this huge population we can bring, a very diverse population, a major strength that New Jersey has to be able to bring to these clinical trials, [and] with that bring additional revenue,” noted Strom. (emphasis mine)
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/rutgers-rwj-barnabas-consummate-deal-for-large-academic-health-system/
And everything is going as planned.
Rutgers now boasts a new state-of-the-art facility, which has hosted COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials by Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer, including pediatric vaccine clinical trials for children 6 months to 4 years. And it is now enrolling children for a clinical trial for a Lyme disease vaccine being developed by Pfizer and French vaccine manufacturer Valneva.
If you’re wondering if universities like Rutgers are willing to bite the hand that feeds them, consider Rutgers’ efforts to drive COVID policy since that time:
According to his Linked-In profile, Rutgers COO and Executive Vice President Antonio Calcado was on the steering team that spearheaded the lucrative partnership with RWJ. In early 2020, he was selected to lead the Rutger’s COVID-19 Task Force and “led the COVID-19 response for the university and healthcare system throughout the pandemic.” According to his profile, he was also “instrumental in implementing the first university COVID vaccine mandate in the country.”
Calcado has zero background in science, medicine or public health.
In an interview with Rutgers Magazine he acknowledged, “I am not an expert in any of the areas that the leaders are addressing. I don’t know any of these things, but what I do know is that we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
This is the person who is still setting important precedents for public health policy.
Currently, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, the same school that is requiring all students and employees to “obtain a booster when eligible” is promoting a new, variant-specific “bivalent” booster on social media.
You can see a thread of headlines demonstrating all the ways the university has worked to push vaccines and fight vaccine hesitancy and “misinformation” here.
But it wasn’t just Rutgers. Universities throughout the country were baited and captured via incentives and funding, much like our three letter agencies, our media and many of our influencers, legislators and other decision-makers.
Rutgers just helped me unravel the playbook…
Let’s hold onto lessons from history and keep having conversations and course corrections.
It's a shame shame medicine has become political. I would like to make a point, my daughter went to UC Boulder and took the religious exemption option. No one talks about the "option" and maybe every school didn't offer, but sometimes standing up for yourself takes a little courage too.
It shouldn't require a new law. They should already be liable. So should every company from the smallest mom & pop to the largest corporations. I'm no lawyer so maybe someone can explain to me why these organizations should have any immunity from their actions? And the liability should also include harm caused by masking which could even go into emotional harm outside of the negative health consequences of being forced to wear them.