From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu
On 2013-04-03, Happy Oyster <-*-*> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:45:47 -0700 (PDT), "John H. Gohde"
> wrote:
>>On Apr 2, 9:50 am, Happy Oyster <-*-*.@.*-*-> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 04:41:28 -0700 (PDT), "John H. Gohde"
>>> wrote:
>>> >STOP the financial subsidies. Make vaccine makers totally liable for
>>> >their dangerous and ineffective products. Let vaccines stand on their
>>> >own in the market place.
>>> That is bloody stupid and would kill hundreds of millions of poeople.
>>STOP the financial subsidies. Make vaccine makers totally liable for
>>their dangerous and ineffective products. Let vaccines stand on their
>>own in the market place.
> Vaccines have a magniicent stand - they saved hundreds of millions of
> lives.
Vaccines are valuable, as you say. However, they do not provide
the maker with enough profit to attempt to provide the guarantees
which Mr. Gohde wants; they are uaually, to the maker, in the
nature of generic drugs, which often because of time or other
factors, do not have the amount of testing required for them.
The flu vaccine is a good example; the strains to be included
are given by an international committee, and there is NO time
to test the vaccine, except for immediate adverse effects
before it will have to be given.
Others are less urgent, but there are dangers in vaccines
which cannot be eliminated. However, there is no way the
drug companies can offer to handle those risks.
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