“Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) arose as part of the December 30, 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), and “was pushed through to shield drug companies from lawsuits over products like the anthrax and smallpox vaccines, which had a relatively high rate of dangerous side effects.” [1, 2]
CICP “has just four employees and few hallmarks of an ordinary court. Decisions are made in secret by government officials, claimants can’t appeal to a judge and payments in most death cases are capped at $370,376.” – this court was “created by a 2005 law specifically to deal with vaccines developed under emergency authorization.” [3, 4, 5, 6]