The national program that allows Canadians to report serious and permanent injuries after receiving a Health Canada-authorized vaccine—including COVID-19 vaccines—has released new figures on how many people have reported and requested compensation. The Vaccine Injury Support Program, which was announced by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) last December and officially launched in June, has received 400 claims of vaccine-related injury, with fewer than five having been approved by the end of November. According to the program, 387 of the claims have been assigned to a case manager, and 64 are inadmissible due to claimants not meeting the eligibility criteria or submitting incomplete information. So far, 323 of the claims have been considered admissible. As to what constitutes a serious and permanent injury, the program defines it as “a severe, life-threatening or life-altering injury that may require in-person hospitalization, or a prolongation of existing hospitalization, and results in persistent …