by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
The bill, named after Cody Hudson, a previously healthy college student injured in 2021 by Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, would expedite the review and payment process for vaccine injury claims under Florida’s Medicare, Medicaid and Medicaid Medically Needy Programs.
Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would expedite the review and payment process for vaccine injury claims under the Medicare, Medicaid and Medicaid Medically Needy Programs.
If passed, “Cody’s Law: Florida No Vaccine-Injured Patient Left Behind” would be the first such law in the U.S. and could supplant federal vaccine injury compensation programs.
The bill, filed in the Florida House of Representatives in January and the Florida Senate last week, is named after Cody Hudson, a previously healthy college student who sustained serious — and now terminal — vaccine injuries in 2021.
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Cody’s mother, Heather Hudson, advocated for and drafted the legislation. She said the law would fill the “gaps of all the vaccine injury compensation programs and Social Security disability.”
“It provides expedited claims processing, like is done for other severe and major illnesses, by Medicare and Medicaid, and affords the vaccine-injured and Emergency Use Authorization protocol-injured medical care at the onset of injury, when it is needed most,” Hudson said.
COVID-19 vaccines were released in 2020 in the U.S. under emergency use authorization. Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), manufacturers cannot be held liable for injuries caused by the vaccines. In December 2024, that liability shield was extended through 2029.
People injured by COVID-19 vaccines can apply to the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, or CICP. To date, the CICP has received 14,234 claims and approved just 26 of them.
Unlike the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which covers injuries arising from vaccines routinely administered to children and pregnant women, the CICP — in the few cases where it does make awards — pays only for unreimbursed medical expenses and up to $50,000 per year for lost wages.
Psychotherapist Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., author of the “Ban the Jab” resolution adopted by 10 Florida counties, said Cody’s Law would be “a pioneering state-level initiative” that would “provide medical care to individuals who have been injured by COVID-19 injection that have been lied to and abandoned … These victims are being gaslit and nobody is acknowledging their injuries.”
Cody, once given three days to live, left terminally injured by the COVID shots
Hudson said she faced “a bumpy road” in bringing the proposed law to Florida representatives. It took “about a year of extraordinary and tear-jerking humanitarian efforts” to attain sponsors in the House and later in the Senate.
Those efforts succeeded. “The legislators left the proposed law intact and the way I wrote it,” Hudson said.
In January, just after the Florida House proposed Cody’s Law, Hudson wrote an open letter to the members of the state Senate, calling on them to introduce and sponsor the bill. Hudson, her husband and Cody later went to the state capitol “to be seen and heard.”
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