HAMBURG - BioNTech will go to court on Monday (June 12) to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its Covid-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country. The woman, exercising her right under German privacy law for her name not to be made public,...
HAMBURG - BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its Covid-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the country.
German pharmaceutical law states that makers of drugs or vaccines are only liable to pay damages for side-effects if "medical science" shows that their products cause disproportionate harm relative to their benefits or if the label information is wrong. It noted about 1.5 billion people had received the shot across the world, including more than 64 million in Germany.
Unexpected side-effects after a drug has regulatory approval are rare. The unprecedented speed at which Covid-19 vaccines were developed during the pandemic meant that potential uncommon side-effects may not have been detected as readily as they might have been in traditionally longer trials.The EMA had registered almost 1.7 million spontaneous reports of suspected side-effects by May, which translates into about 0.2 for every 100 administered doses.
Like many countries, Germany also has a public sector financial support scheme for people who suffer permanent harm from vaccines, known as a no-fault compensation programme, but participation in the programme does not block someone seeking damages separately.
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