SYMPTOMS AS EVIDENCE Disability is as a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. Social Security’s definition of disability is any physical or mental condition that keeps you from working for at least one year and the decision to award disability payments must be based on evidence. Evidence is any testimony, …
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SYMPTOMS AS EVIDENCE
THE SSA LISTINGS
The Listing of Impairments is an evidentiary compilation of signs and symptoms found at Appendix 1 of the Social Security disability regulations (20 C.F.R. Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1). This compilation is published in the “Blue Book”. The Blue Book, formally titled Disability Evaluation Under Social Security, lists impairments the Social Security Administration (SSA) considers severe …
About Vaccines
Vaccines (July 23, 2021) Vaccinations are traditionally used to prevent the devastating effects of those infectious diseases that defeat the immune system, the natural protection against invading foreign pathogens. Vaccines mimick the infection in a controlled way, provoke a protective immune response against the natural infection. The first immunization was used against smallpox over 200 …