HHS Defeats Lawsuit Over Covid-19 Injury Compensation Policy

HHS won’t face suit over its alleged use of a “singular cause” policy to determine if people seeking compensation for deaths caused by Covid-19 countermeasures were entitled to benefits, a federal judge said.

Family members of people who died after being treated with covered countermeasures such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, remdesivir, and mechanical ventilators, didn’t show the US Department of Health and Human Services actually adopted a final policy requiring them to prove their decedents’ injuries were caused solely by the covered countermeasures, Judge Amir H. Ali said Tuesday. They thus failed to allege final agency action adopting a singular cause ...