Changing Vaccine Liability Laws and Ensuring Injured Persons Get Access to Care--'Worth a Shot’!

Caroline Pover recently wrote a book exposing what has been a major scandal in American society during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the forward by Brianne Dressen, co-founder of the vaccine injury nonprofit advocacy organization React19, “Worth a Shot?: Secrets of the Clinical Trial Participant Who Inspired a Global Movement—Brianne Dressen’s Story” hardcover is certainly one of the most important reads covering COVID-19 pandemic responses.  

Dressen was a Utah-based mom, wife and pre-school teacher who wanted to do the right thing during the start of the pandemic. As the U.S. government rolled out COVID-19 vaccine trials, she signed up to volunteer for the AstraZeneca viral vector vaccine study. She wanted to do her part to help end the pandemic that essentially shut down much of the world by March 2020, “but something went terribly, terribly wrong.” Dressen had severe neurological reactions to the vaccine originally developed at University of Oxford.

Brianne Dressen’s Story

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Part memoir, part medical mystery, part social commentary, Worth a Shot? discloses what actually happens to individuals adversely impacted, injured by the COVID-19 countermeasures.

Co-founding React19 with Joel Wallskog, M.D., a Wisconsin surgeon also severely injured by the jabs, Dressen and the book take the reader on a journey into her “body, mind, and spirit as she found herself embroiled in a medical, political and culture nightmare” actually unfolding across America for decades.

Chronicling the journey of Ms. Dressen, she must face the pain, anger and helplessness experienced by most vaccine injured given a health system that systematically ignores, evades or even gaslights patients.

Brianne’s story is particularly interesting given prominent individuals employed by the National institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration embraced her and a group of vaccine injured early on during the deployment of countermeasures. Brianne and the others were assured by government officials that she and the others would be cared for, but as the topic became a political hot potato, Dressen and colleagues were dropped, ghosted, and essentially in some cases, left for dead.

Emerging as a leading activist to advocate for reform across not only COVID-19 vaccine injury but also long COVID, from ensuring persons injured by medical countermeasures receive compensation and care, to the push to change the law and eliminate vaccine liability, Dressen, along with Wallskog and her team of volunteers at the React19 group emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as a powerful voice for reform, a struggle that continues and will likely intensify.

React19 developed a care fund and with donated proceeds, has actually given out more funds to vaccine injured than the federal government under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), a total scandal in need of serious mainstream attention.

TrialSite has supported React19 now for a couple of years, and in fact, the founder Daniel O’Connor serves on the nonprofit’s board.

O’Connor shared for this write-up:

“Despite very serious injuries and great financial difficulty, Brianne, with the support of her husband Brian and her kids, stepped up as a national, even a global leader, serving a higher purpose. Working tirelessly to fight for the possibility that the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. alone, permanently impacted by the medical countermeasures deployed during the pandemic get the care they deserve. This is not easy given the governmental, institutional and societal forces aligned against any such messaging, let alone actual changes, that even hint of vaccine hesitancy, no matter the human costs.  But thanks to React19 and their supporters, a patient-centered group, the possibility of progressive reform feels within reach.”

All of the proceeds go to charitable causes. Pick up a copy.