Given the context of him all but being forced to take said jab, £120k seems just absolutely pittiful. Somebody being paralysed in an accident would reasonably expect millions to cover their costs of care, and to compensate them over the course of their life.
Edit: Because, inexplicably, people are denying that idea that many people felt forced into taking vaccinations, just a reminder that in some areas we did get as far as mandatory legislation upto and including sacking people:
These adverse reactions suck. Hope he gets more than £120k in the long run because it’s not enough for the damage it has done to his life..
Interesting to see the conspiracy loons believing this vindicates them?
Tens of millions of vaccines and…one unfortunate case. Yeah….Real dangerous those covid vaccines.
Awful, but a rare isolated incident.
Should be much higher than 120k.
**edit:** I decided to post the data itself as the article listed 499 cases with 5 fatalities, which appeared correct but failed to mention that was over 143M doses. Replies severely underestimated that total number of jabs (often saying tens of millions) and it’s important to consider the stats all the way through … too much bias for me without that open analysis.
**my original post:** I think it’s important to read that article within the context of the hard data (53M first doses, 50M second doses, 40M third/booster doses). This is within my scientific wheelhouse and I’d be happy to answer any questions or address any comments.
Relevant section is copied and pasted here but the entire document is worth a read (data from the US is similar but I don’t have it at hand):
***Guillain-Barré Syndrome***
*Guillain-Barré Syndrome is a very rare condition which causes inflammation of the nerves and can lead to numbness, weakness and pain, usually in the feet, hands and limbs and can spread to the chest and face. Guillain-Barré Syndrome tends to affect both sides of the body at once. This condition is known to be associated with certain infectious diseases.>Up to and including the 8 June 2022, the MHRA has received 499 reports of suspected Guillain-Barré Syndrome with the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca and 29 reports of a related disease called Miller Fisher syndrome. Up to the same date, the MHRA has received 106 reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome following use of the COVID-19 Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine and 5 reports of Miller Fisher syndrome and for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna there have been 19 reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome.*
*The MHRA has been closely monitoring and assessing reports of suspected Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) received following administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Following the most recent review of the available data the evidence of a possible association has strengthened. Therefore, following advice from the government’s independent advisory body, the CHM and its COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group, the product information for the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca was further updated to include GBS in the tabulated list of adverse reactions associated with the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca and to encourage healthcare professionals and the public to look out for signs of GBS.*
*The MHRA will continue to review reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome received following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines to further assess a possible association, with independent advice from its Vaccine Benefit-Risk Working Group.*
The VDPS scheme does need improving, if only to encourage vaccine uptake.
Cases like this are tragic, but it’s worth remembering even with cases like this, your risk of GBS is reduced by taking the covid vaccine.
For instance, this paper [1] estimates the GBS rate for covid +ve people at 47.9/100 000 and for hospitalised covid +ve at 236/100 000. GBS in covid +ve was also more severe.
EDIT : Thank you for the platinum kind stranger. I shall use the free coins to award posts promoting industrial action on behalf of the essential workers that carried us through covid.
I think this is great, his life has clearly been severely effected.
What I’d also like to see is compensation to everyone who’s been similarly effected but from covid. Although the first pfizer corresponded with a decline in my health, I’d already been disabled by covid for 15 months.
If you wanted to learn more about the payment, it has a .gov page
I teach, a bloke at my previous work is pursuing this payment has he developed “Parsonage-Turner Syndrome” from the vaccine – causing him severe pain and muscle wasteage in his shoulder.
Which is pretty important in his job as PE teacher, and cricket coach.
I imagine we will be seeing more of this!
Why such a small amount, man’s paralysed!?
Safe and effective
Get more for walking into Walmart and slipping on the floor in America
As someone that had mild myocarditis from the Moderna jab and is still recovering over a year later I welcome this.
My doctor still won’t accept that the jab had anything to do with my sudden decline in physical health and is adamant it’s just anxiety…
Ahh something for the anti vaxxers to latch on to for the next 20 years.
Hold on – he didn’t “win a payout” at all, his wife applied for a government benefit scheme and was successful …
60% disabled? How do you even begin to quantify that?
I’m vaxxed, didn’t want it but I was going to lose my job if I didn’t. I was over the moon when my grandparent got their first vaccination as they were the ones (over 80) who were really at risk here, but I could not have a real conversation with my friends or colleagues about the “risks”
Absolutely no one wanted to hear it, no one wanted to hear why I though it was unnecessary to vaccinate children and why it was unnecessary for my work to now implement our 3rd vaccinations although many of us (20-35) had caught covid twice!
I really hope the worst of the side effects have already come to light but I fear we may be seeing headlines like this for a little while.
AGAIN, not against the vaccine but I am seriously against mandatory vaccination and I’m so glad we are at the back end of this pandemic.
£120,000 isn’t enough. The UK is extremely expensive in 2022. I wish this fella all the best, I give my sympathies with anyone who had the jab.
That is not compensation that here you go now shut up and fuck off.
At least there was *some* option to help in a case like this, clearly not a US citizen.
A study published in the Lancet estimates that vaccines have saved up to 20million lives – notwithstanding the devastating consequences if a vax goes badly wrong.
–
I imagine I could get up a panel of seriously qualified experts to back up a claim that in [*this] particular case or [*that] particular accident, the victim would have survived had they *NOT* been wearing a seatbelt.
Despite those cases being 100% true, would anyone seriously advocate to make wearing seatbelts optional.
Antivaxxers and conspiracy nuts are having a field day.
Saw him walking to shops yesterday
I feel really sorry for him the vaccines are usually safe but this man got extremely unlucky and was one of the few that had a reaction. He should have got more money though
Just for general information for people who may not know – GBS is a known but very rare risk from several vaccines not just the covid vaccine. If really is incredibly rare. GBS is commonly a post viral condition, and your are probably more likely to get it from getting covid than getting the covid vaccine.
(I’m an ED and ICU nurse and have cared for patients with GBS.)
There were so many people complaining about side-effects of covid vaccination that were ignored. One of them was a family friend who is ok now but experienced something heart related.
She was was young too, no known medical condition.
I never looked down on people’s fear of being vaccinated, they have every right to be worried.
120k from who?, the nhs?
2020 “Government ain’t telling me what to do, I’m not getting the jab, COVID isn’t real anyway!”
2022 “Massive pay-outs for jabs gone wrong eh? *rolls up sleeve* Fucking shoot me up. Moderna! Astra Zeneca! Everything! I believe!!”
Almost as if the vaccine didn’t go through a proper medical trial period
Let’s be clear here, any vaccine that you take has risks; that had always been known for any disease or virus. They even listed and provided leaflets of side effects ranging from very rare to common.
This guy is in the minority, UK population 67.8million and according to the article only 499 people had developed GBS and whether this is caused by the vaccine or infection is still unclear.
120k is not enough for a life time of being paralysed really is it
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Given the context of him all but being forced to take said jab, £120k seems just absolutely pittiful. Somebody being paralysed in an accident would reasonably expect millions to cover their costs of care, and to compensate them over the course of their life.
Edit: Because, inexplicably, people are denying that idea that many people felt forced into taking vaccinations, just a reminder that in some areas we did get as far as mandatory legislation upto and including sacking people:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/61e68df88fa8f50585ecbafb/Ms_C_Allette_-V-_Scarsdale_Grange_Nursing_Home_Ltd_1803699.2021.pdf
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These adverse reactions suck. Hope he gets more than £120k in the long run because it’s not enough for the damage it has done to his life..
Interesting to see the conspiracy loons believing this vindicates them?
Tens of millions of vaccines and…one unfortunate case. Yeah….Real dangerous those covid vaccines.
Awful, but a rare isolated incident.
Should be much higher than 120k.
**edit:** I decided to post the data itself as the article listed 499 cases with 5 fatalities, which appeared correct but failed to mention that was over 143M doses. Replies severely underestimated that total number of jabs (often saying tens of millions) and it’s important to consider the stats all the way through … too much bias for me without that open analysis.
**my original post:** I think it’s important to read that article within the context of the hard data (53M first doses, 50M second doses, 40M third/booster doses). This is within my scientific wheelhouse and I’d be happy to answer any questions or address any comments.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting)
Relevant section is copied and pasted here but the entire document is worth a read (data from the US is similar but I don’t have it at hand):
***Guillain-Barré Syndrome***
*Guillain-Barré Syndrome is a very rare condition which causes inflammation of the nerves and can lead to numbness, weakness and pain, usually in the feet, hands and limbs and can spread to the chest and face. Guillain-Barré Syndrome tends to affect both sides of the body at once. This condition is known to be associated with certain infectious diseases.>Up to and including the 8 June 2022, the MHRA has received 499 reports of suspected Guillain-Barré Syndrome with the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca and 29 reports of a related disease called Miller Fisher syndrome. Up to the same date, the MHRA has received 106 reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome following use of the COVID-19 Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine and 5 reports of Miller Fisher syndrome and for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna there have been 19 reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome.*
*The MHRA has been closely monitoring and assessing reports of suspected Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) received following administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. Following the most recent review of the available data the evidence of a possible association has strengthened. Therefore, following advice from the government’s independent advisory body, the CHM and its COVID-19 Vaccines Benefit Risk Expert Working Group, the product information for the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca was further updated to include GBS in the tabulated list of adverse reactions associated with the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca and to encourage healthcare professionals and the public to look out for signs of GBS.*
*The MHRA will continue to review reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome received following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines to further assess a possible association, with independent advice from its Vaccine Benefit-Risk Working Group.*
The VDPS scheme does need improving, if only to encourage vaccine uptake.
Cases like this are tragic, but it’s worth remembering even with cases like this, your risk of GBS is reduced by taking the covid vaccine.
For instance, this paper [1] estimates the GBS rate for covid +ve people at 47.9/100 000 and for hospitalised covid +ve at 236/100 000. GBS in covid +ve was also more severe.
[1] [https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/92/7/751](https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/92/7/751)
EDIT : Thank you for the platinum kind stranger. I shall use the free coins to award posts promoting industrial action on behalf of the essential workers that carried us through covid.
I think this is great, his life has clearly been severely effected.
What I’d also like to see is compensation to everyone who’s been similarly effected but from covid. Although the first pfizer corresponded with a decline in my health, I’d already been disabled by covid for 15 months.
If you wanted to learn more about the payment, it has a .gov page
https://www.gov.uk/vaccine-damage-payment
I teach, a bloke at my previous work is pursuing this payment has he developed “Parsonage-Turner Syndrome” from the vaccine – causing him severe pain and muscle wasteage in his shoulder.
Which is pretty important in his job as PE teacher, and cricket coach.
I imagine we will be seeing more of this!
Why such a small amount, man’s paralysed!?
Safe and effective
Get more for walking into Walmart and slipping on the floor in America
As someone that had mild myocarditis from the Moderna jab and is still recovering over a year later I welcome this.
My doctor still won’t accept that the jab had anything to do with my sudden decline in physical health and is adamant it’s just anxiety…
Ahh something for the anti vaxxers to latch on to for the next 20 years.
Hold on – he didn’t “win a payout” at all, his wife applied for a government benefit scheme and was successful …
60% disabled? How do you even begin to quantify that?
I’m vaxxed, didn’t want it but I was going to lose my job if I didn’t. I was over the moon when my grandparent got their first vaccination as they were the ones (over 80) who were really at risk here, but I could not have a real conversation with my friends or colleagues about the “risks”
Absolutely no one wanted to hear it, no one wanted to hear why I though it was unnecessary to vaccinate children and why it was unnecessary for my work to now implement our 3rd vaccinations although many of us (20-35) had caught covid twice!
I really hope the worst of the side effects have already come to light but I fear we may be seeing headlines like this for a little while.
AGAIN, not against the vaccine but I am seriously against mandatory vaccination and I’m so glad we are at the back end of this pandemic.
£120,000 isn’t enough. The UK is extremely expensive in 2022. I wish this fella all the best, I give my sympathies with anyone who had the jab.
That is not compensation that here you go now shut up and fuck off.
At least there was *some* option to help in a case like this, clearly not a US citizen.
A study published in the Lancet estimates that vaccines have saved up to 20million lives – notwithstanding the devastating consequences if a vax goes badly wrong.
–
I imagine I could get up a panel of seriously qualified experts to back up a claim that in [*this] particular case or [*that] particular accident, the victim would have survived had they *NOT* been wearing a seatbelt.
Despite those cases being 100% true, would anyone seriously advocate to make wearing seatbelts optional.
Antivaxxers and conspiracy nuts are having a field day.
Saw him walking to shops yesterday
I feel really sorry for him the vaccines are usually safe but this man got extremely unlucky and was one of the few that had a reaction. He should have got more money though
Just for general information for people who may not know – GBS is a known but very rare risk from several vaccines not just the covid vaccine. If really is incredibly rare. GBS is commonly a post viral condition, and your are probably more likely to get it from getting covid than getting the covid vaccine.
[https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/causes/](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/guillain-barre-syndrome/causes/)
(I’m an ED and ICU nurse and have cared for patients with GBS.)
There were so many people complaining about side-effects of covid vaccination that were ignored. One of them was a family friend who is ok now but experienced something heart related.
She was was young too, no known medical condition.
I never looked down on people’s fear of being vaccinated, they have every right to be worried.
120k from who?, the nhs?
2020 “Government ain’t telling me what to do, I’m not getting the jab, COVID isn’t real anyway!”
2022 “Massive pay-outs for jabs gone wrong eh? *rolls up sleeve* Fucking shoot me up. Moderna! Astra Zeneca! Everything! I believe!!”
Almost as if the vaccine didn’t go through a proper medical trial period
Let’s be clear here, any vaccine that you take has risks; that had always been known for any disease or virus. They even listed and provided leaflets of side effects ranging from very rare to common.
This guy is in the minority, UK population 67.8million and according to the article only 499 people had developed GBS and whether this is caused by the vaccine or infection is still unclear.
120k is not enough for a life time of being paralysed really is it