Vaccines

It is flu season and the big news is a contamination problem in England affecting the Chiron flu production facility which will prevent them from providing vaccine this year. This will cut our supply by about 50% and many U.S. citizens will get no additional protection this year. Why do we only have two companies making a vaccine which is known to prevent thousands of deaths each winter? The better question is why we have any companies making vaccines. This sad situation is brought about by trial lawyers who take any adverse outcome and rush to court to collect large slices of awards designed to punish the cruel drug companies which make these instruments of death. The fact is, there is no drug or vaccine which is completely safe and punative damages which fail to recognize this put the vast majority of us at considerable risk. If you have a vaccine which is 99.99% safe, you have 0.01% of all who take the vaccine experiencing some untoward reaction. This is a large number of customers for the lying, thieving lawyers to exploit and use to sue the company and their insurers. This is simply not a situation which makes economic sense for the companies which make only pennies per injection. The solution to this problem is not only obvious, but one which is not likely to be reached if we elect two lawyers next month.