Pfizer Settles More Than 10,000 Cancer Suits in Bid to Reduce Potential Liability

As almost everyone knows, the manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines are immune from lawsuits until later this year. In February of 2020, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar invoked the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP, which allows HHS to provide protection to vaccine manufacturers unless there’s “willful misconduct,” according to CNBC. That protection, invoked as the vaccines were undergoing emergency use authorization, sunsets in October of this year, according to BioSpace — but even then, lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers will be difficult. “Even when this immunity goes...