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2. The point of the program (and it is exactly a protection for those companies) is to ensure that ...
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 06:43 AM
Aug 2025

... a means to manufacture vaccines remains in existence in the US. The situation that was present in the 1980s is brought up in that video: namely, the number of vaccine-related lawsuits, which came up then, reduced the number of companies which were willing to produce vaccines in the US from (about) eighteen to only four. However, note that the video also discusses the fact that the great majority of those lawsuits were not based on any sort of causal link between vaccine and injury but instead on correlations which were mistaken for causation. The later studies which showed this were also briefly discussed.

There might be a way, in principle, to produce vaccines at scale nationally, if the government would take that on as a project, but that would probably require building some sort of infrastructure parallel to that which Pharma currently has and would also require a Congress willing essentially to take over that aspect of business from Pharma. (My statements undoubtedly greatly oversimplify the complexity of what would need to be done to accomplish all of any of this, so suffice it to say that it seems unlikely that the government could take over for Pharma: that would effectively mean the US would be a country without the means to research or produce its own vaccines. So, a US without vaccines.)

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