Where are vaccines manufactured? Remember this story?

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47. Here's the problem.

1. China and India produce a lot of vaccines.

They also sell them domestically (which means "in China" and "in India&quot . They export them to a number of countries.

GKS and others use production facilities there, to be sure. But they're not just in the US market, so they have a market for the drugs/etc. they produce in China and India.

That part's not controverted.



2. The FDA doesn't approve vaccines they can't regulate or investigate. There have been cases where we've imported drugs or vaccines from India and there's been a bit of a media spectacle around them because the US insists on inspecting. Some pass, some don't. Typically if the drugs were imported and didn't pass inspection, they couldn't be sold. If they had been for sale, they're off the market. This has even been true for vaccines produced in Britain and France: I think the bird flu scare a few years ago made people rummage for producers of vaccines and there were problems with regulatory approval.


It's getting from (1) to (2) that requires documentation, some evidence other than hand-waving accompanied by the incantation "corruption." Listing the drugs for sale in the US that aren't imported from there shows that the list of possible imports is smaller than "all drugs." It's an attempt at negative evidence, in the absence of any positive evidence being brought forward.

Notice that I made this a bit harder: Because there have been instances of drugs brought in without the required paperwork and later stopped when discovered it's possible to even find the occasional article showing it happened but is still not relevant. It shows possibility, not actual on-going practice.

That's where the argument is. That's what you need to substantiate. And it's the latter that's really the crux of your claim.