https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-man-vaccine-injury-payout-1.6472636B.C. man among first Canadians approved for COVID-19 vaccine injury payout
Ross Wightman 1 of 10 people hospitalized with Guillain-Barré Syndrome within 30 days of vaccine: BCCDC
In the year since he became partially paralyzed, Ross Wightman has kept his focus on small victories — from getting up the stairs unassisted, to going for a solo walk near his rural B.C. home.
But the biggest win came in the form of an e-mail from Canada's Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) that confirmed something he says he knew all along: that his condition was likely caused by the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
"That was quite vindicating," Wightman said from his Lake Country home in the Okanagan Valley. "To have it in hand, in paper, acknowledging it has been vindicating."