[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/vaccine-injury\/vaccinations\/coronavirus-covid-19\/why-is-rfk-jr-blocking-changes-that-would-help-people-injured-by-the-covid-vaccine\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/vaccine-injury\/vaccinations\/coronavirus-covid-19\/why-is-rfk-jr-blocking-changes-that-would-help-people-injured-by-the-covid-vaccine\/","headline":"Why is RFK Jr. Blocking Changes that Would Help People Injured by the COVID Vaccine?","name":"Why is RFK Jr. Blocking Changes that Would Help People Injured by the COVID Vaccine?","description":"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is actively trying to block a lawsuit that could bring long-overdue justice to Americans injured by adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine. The lawsuit, filed by Paul Brundage, asks the Court to force Secretary Kennedy to follow the law and take a required step to […]","datePublished":"2025-05-21","dateModified":"2026-01-22","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/author\/gilda\/#Person","name":"mctlaw","url":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/author\/gilda\/","identifier":3,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0c4361f692a48baef0e890217ad68886a6303b61fafc90940c5e8a0dac5d3fa?s=96&d=blank&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0c4361f692a48baef0e890217ad68886a6303b61fafc90940c5e8a0dac5d3fa?s=96&d=blank&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"mctlaw","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mctlaw-color-for-schema.jpg","url":"http:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mctlaw-color-for-schema.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Response-to-Motion-to-Dismiss-Case-1-25-cv-00119-SLS-_Page_01.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Response-to-Motion-to-Dismiss-Case-1-25-cv-00119-SLS-_Page_01.jpg","height":2200,"width":1700},"url":"https:\/\/www.mctlaw.com\/vaccine-injury\/vaccinations\/coronavirus-covid-19\/why-is-rfk-jr-blocking-changes-that-would-help-people-injured-by-the-covid-vaccine\/","about":["Coronavirus-COVID-19"],"wordCount":488,"articleBody":"Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is actively trying to block a lawsuit that could bring long-overdue justice to Americans injured by adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine. The lawsuit, filed by Paul Brundage, asks the Court to force Secretary Kennedy to follow the law and take a required step to add the COVID vaccine to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).In a legal filing asking to dismiss the case, Secretary Kennedy argues he is not required to act until Congress passes a 75-cent payment from vaccine manufacturers to fund compensation. But Brundage\u2019s response to the motion says this is contrary to the clear requirements in the law. The Secretary is mandated to add the COVID vaccine.\u201cThe Secretary\u2019s refusal to act is a clear violation of federal law,\u201d said Altom M. Maglio, partner at mctlaw. \u201cThe Vaccine Act requires that vaccines recommended by the CDC for children or pregnant women be added to the Vaccine Injury Table within two years. It\u2019s now been significantly longer than two years since that happened and still the Secretary has not done what is required of him.\u201dIn the lawsuit, Brundage\u2019s attorneys state plainly: \u201cThe Secretary\u2019s failure to act is not based on a valid interpretation of the law, but on a refusal to comply with it.\u201dIn fact, federal records show that other vaccines, including hepatitis B, Hib, and chickenpox, were added to the Vaccine Injury Table before Congress authorized the 75-cent payment. In those cases, representatives for HHS acknowledged that it had a duty to act as soon as the CDC issued its recommendation.\u201cThis is about protecting real people who did what we asked and got hurt,\u201d Maglio added. \u201cFor some inexplicable reason Secretary Kennedy is using technical excuses and bureaucratic red tape to avoid doing what the law clearly requires. Meanwhile, people are suffering.\u201dRight now, Americans injured by the COVID vaccine are forced to rely on the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), which the lawsuit points out \u201chas been called by legal commentators a \u2018black hole\u2019 and \u2018the right to file and lose.\u2019\u201d The CICP has denied nearly 98% of all claims and offers no right to a hearing or appeal. The lawsuit argues that the VICP, unlike the CICP, is a fairer, established system with transparency, access to legal representation, and judicial review.The response (No. 1:25-CV-00119-SLS) is filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC and asks the Court to compel Secretary Kennedy to follow the law, perform his statutory duties, and stop denying vaccine injured Americans their right to compensation.Read ResponseAbout mctlawmctlaw is a national law firm that helps people who have been seriously injured by vaccines. The firm has represented thousands of clients in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims through the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. 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