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Competing accounts of the frequency and institutional handling of vaccine injuries and schedule risk, without offering treatment guidance.
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- 1986 · eventNational Childhood Vaccine Injury Act establishes federal compensation framework path
- 1986 · first_appearanceNational Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
- 1986 · eventNational Childhood Vaccine Injury Act creates federal no-fault compensation path
- 1990 · investigationVaccine Safety Datalink begins
- 1990 · eventVaccine Safety Datalink begins active monitoring with healthcare partners
- 1990 · eventVAERS launched
- 1990 · eventVAERS launches as national passive vaccine adverse-event reporting system
- 1998 · document_releaseWakefield and colleagues publish MMR-autism case-series paper
- 1998 · document_releaseWakefield et al. MMR-autism case series published
- 1999-09 · investigationNVICP director testifies before House subcommittee on program operations
- 2000 · document_releaseHouse Report 106-977 on Vaccine Injury Compensation Program practices
- 2000 · document_releaseHouse Report 106-977 reviews Vaccine Injury Compensation Program practices
- 2010 · eventLancet fully retracts 1998 Wakefield et al. MMR paper
- 2010 · mutationLancet fully retracts Wakefield et al. 1998 MMR paper
- 2011 · amplificationChildhood schedule-intensity debate widens in online public discourse
- 2011 · document_releaseMeyers law-review article criticizes flaws in federal vaccine injury compensation
- 2011 · popularizationSchedule-intensity debate widens online
- 2020 · amplificationPandemic-era pharmacovigilance attention
- 2020 · amplificationPandemic-era vaccination drives heightened pharmacovigilance attention
- 2021-01 · document_releaseFederal Register action on NVICP Vaccine Injury Table revisions
- 2021 · document_releaseFederal Register action revises NVICP Vaccine Injury Table entries
- 2021 · mutationPublic disputes intensify over how to read VAERS and related reporting systems
- 2021 · mutationReporting-system literacy disputes
- 2023 · amplificationResearch analyses of post-COVID-19 vaccination VAERS reports circulate widely
- 2024 · investigationHouse oversight hearing focus on vaccine injury and compensation system reform
- 2024 · investigationHouse oversight hearing focuses on vaccine injury and compensation reform