09/10/2026
HHS Launches Agency-Wide Actions to Strengthen Vaccine Injury Research, Reporting, and Patient Care
The U.S charity, React19 gave a monumental presentation at the opening of the new clinic. Patients gave first hand accounts of their lived-experience of vaccine-injury and bereavement which were received with recognition and compassion.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—OCTOBER 8, 2026—
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week launched a series of actions to strengthen how the federal government identifies, documents, investigates, and responds to health problems reported following vaccination, with a focus on improving patient care and generating better evidence about potential vaccine-related injuries.
To address health problems Americans report after vaccinations, HHS:
Opened a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinic dedicated to studying and caring for patients experiencing health problems following vaccination;
Proposed reimbursing physicians for reporting suspected vaccine-related injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) through a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy, bringing vaccine reporting in Medicare in line with typical Medicare reimbursement policies;
Will require electronic health records to capture vaccine-related adverse events so that information can follow patients across the health care system; andIs modernizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) VAERS to make reporting simpler and improve the tools available to researchers and medical professionals investigating potential safety signals."
“We must listen to patients and families who report vaccine injuries—not dismiss or gaslight them,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Read the FULL PRESS RELEASE:
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-strengthens-vaccine-injury-research-reporting-patient-care.html
