Fifteen months after submitting a claim to the federal program for vaccine injuries, a man paralyzed from the COVID-19 shot and now confined to a wheelchair was notified he has been approved for compensation.
The amount of compensation is still to be determined.
Julian Scholefield, 45, from Summerland, B.C., got a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID shot in July 2021 and 12 days later, over the course of a few hours, developed a rare neurological disorder that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Since the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) began accepting claims on June 1, 2021, it has received 1,299 claims and paid out close to $2.8 million in compensation as of Dec. 1, 2022, according the program’s statistics page….