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Vaccine injuryAtlas

Health & Medicine · Vaccines & immunization

Competing accounts of the frequency and institutional handling of vaccine injuries and schedule risk, without offering treatment guidance.

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Timeline

  1. 1986 · eventNational Childhood Vaccine Injury Act establishes federal compensation framework path
  2. 1986 · first_appearanceNational Childhood Vaccine Injury Act
  3. 1986 · eventNational Childhood Vaccine Injury Act creates federal no-fault compensation path
  4. 1990 · investigationVaccine Safety Datalink begins
  5. 1990 · eventVaccine Safety Datalink begins active monitoring with healthcare partners
  6. 1990 · eventVAERS launched
  7. 1990 · eventVAERS launches as national passive vaccine adverse-event reporting system
  8. 1998 · document_releaseWakefield and colleagues publish MMR-autism case-series paper
  9. 1998 · document_releaseWakefield et al. MMR-autism case series published
  10. 1999-09 · investigationNVICP director testifies before House subcommittee on program operations
  11. 2000 · document_releaseHouse Report 106-977 on Vaccine Injury Compensation Program practices
  12. 2000 · document_releaseHouse Report 106-977 reviews Vaccine Injury Compensation Program practices
  13. 2010 · eventLancet fully retracts 1998 Wakefield et al. MMR paper
  14. 2010 · mutationLancet fully retracts Wakefield et al. 1998 MMR paper
  15. 2011 · amplificationChildhood schedule-intensity debate widens in online public discourse
  16. 2011 · document_releaseMeyers law-review article criticizes flaws in federal vaccine injury compensation
  17. 2011 · popularizationSchedule-intensity debate widens online
  18. 2020 · amplificationPandemic-era pharmacovigilance attention
  19. 2020 · amplificationPandemic-era vaccination drives heightened pharmacovigilance attention
  20. 2021-01 · document_releaseFederal Register action on NVICP Vaccine Injury Table revisions
  21. 2021 · document_releaseFederal Register action revises NVICP Vaccine Injury Table entries
  22. 2021 · mutationPublic disputes intensify over how to read VAERS and related reporting systems
  23. 2021 · mutationReporting-system literacy disputes
  24. 2023 · amplificationResearch analyses of post-COVID-19 vaccination VAERS reports circulate widely
  25. 2024 · investigationHouse oversight hearing focus on vaccine injury and compensation system reform
  26. 2024 · investigationHouse oversight hearing focuses on vaccine injury and compensation reform

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