On July 30, 2020 it was reported that AstraZeneca became exempt of liability “in most countries” for it’s COVID-19 vaccine, stating that “[t]his is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is showing side effects…” [@1:56:20]
But it’s not actually “unique” as vaccine manufactures have been exempt of liability for all vaccines on the US childhood schedule since 1986.
The phase 3 mRNA COVID-19 vaccines safety trials ended after only 2-6 months – when participants were unblined, so the saline placebo group had the opportunity to receive the “treatment”. Oxford/AstraZeneca never used a placebo, their “control” group was a meningococcal vaccine (which itself never had a placebo trial, so simply assumed inert!) – so safety would not truly be detectable.