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A vote for price-gouging.
Archive for the ‘Flu vaccine’ Category
October 26th, 2004
Category: Flu vaccine
The Brits jumped on the problem and found back-up supplies. We didn’t. How about some accountability?
October 17th, 2004
Category: Flu vaccine
Bush blunders, Kerry attacks, Bush says Kerry’s a bad person and we’re already throwing money at it.
October 11th, 2004
Category: Flu vaccine
Forbes, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal report that the Food and Drug Administration found contamination problems at the Chiron plant in Liverpool in June of 2003. Yet even after Chiron announded six weeks ago that quality-control problems required delaying shipments of vaccine from August until October, apparently no one at the FDA, [...]
October 11th, 2004
Category: Flu vaccine
When Chiron announced in late October that some of its flu vaccine was contaminated and shipments were being delayed until October, that should have been a warning flag. Apparently no one in Washington was paying attention.
October 10th, 2004
Category: Flu vaccine
Litigation wasn’t the cause of the shortage, but I was wrong to say that “tort reform” was already in place. Sorry.
October 9th, 2004
Category: Flu vaccine
**** NOT SO: see update below ****
Kerry hits Bush on the vaccine shortage.
Bush’s spokesman responds with a falsehood:
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt called Kerry’s criticism “baseless and hypocritical. So few companies make flu vaccines because of a broken medical liability system that Kerry falsely claims to want to fix but has voted 10 [...]
