Answer:
The best answer to the question: Before administering a vaccine covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act requires vaccine providers to provide a vaccine information statement to all patients: who are about to receive a covered vaccine, or to the parent or guardian of a patient who is about to receive a covered vaccine.
This information statement is known as a VIS, Vaccine Information Statement, and it literally informs the patient, and/or parent or guardian of the patient to be immunized, about the possible side effects of the vaccine and the rights they would have to compensation, as established by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, first signed into law in 1986.
As such, manufacturers of vaccines, as well as providers of such substances, must inform the patient and his/her legal guardian, about everything there is to know on the product, including the possible side-effects and the compensation process to which they would have rights as receivers of the product.
