🚨 Pfizer has been given an indemnity by DHSC to use its vaccine in UK.
🚨 Ministers have changed law to protect Pfizer from legal action by patients
🚨 We still dont have published trial data from Pfizer

I will be first in line for jab, but this isn't good enough https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1334121015622897670
Ministers will lay regulations tomorrow to add the Pfizer vaccine to the Vaccine Damages Payments Act which pays a one-off £125k for anyone permanently harmed by the vaccine.
I just asked Pfize's UK MD Ben Osborn why Pfizer needed an indemnity if they were happy the vaccine was safe.

His reply: "We're not actually disclosing any of the details around any of the aspects of that agreement and specifically around the liability clauses."
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