Dan Hartman’s perfectly healthy 17-year-old son, Sean Hartman, died 33 days after receiving a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and was found dead beside his bed. Hartman initially applied to the program when it was called the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) and was run by a private company, Oxaro, which the federal government had contracted to handle vaccine injury compensation following the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines. That company managed the program for years until April 1 of this year, when the federal government took over due to concerns about how it was being handled. The federal government then renamed the program the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program (VIAP).
During the call, the VIAP representative appears to reinforce concerns about the program’s previous management but says she “can’t say what I found,” in reference to the federal government’s takeover.
Hartman originally filed a claim several years ago through the previous program, the Vaccine Injury Support Program, which was denied. He then appealed in 2023 after obtaining a U.S. pathologist’s opinion linking the vaccine to his son’s death. Since then, Hartman says he has been left waiting in limbo. On April 9, he was told during this phone call that he would need to reapply to the program.
You can watch Dan’s interview with The Canadian Independent below.
