Two New York Hospitals Must Face Covid-19 Vaccine Fraud Suit

A whistleblower can move forward with allegations that Rochester Regional Health and United Memorial Medical Center violated the False Claims Act by failing to report adverse Covid-19 vaccine reactions to the government, a New York federal district court said.

Relator Deborah Conrad—a physician assistant who lost her job with RRH in 2021—adequately alleged that the defendants received government payments, despite failing to satisfy their obligation to send reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which is a national early warning system for detecting possible vaccine safety problems, Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. of the US District Court for the ...