>The [vaccine] court -- and the law that established it more than two decades ago -- buffers Wyeth and other makers of childhood-disease vaccines from much of the litigation risk that dogs traditional pill manufacturers and is an important reason why the vaccine business has been transformed from a risky, low-profit venture in the 1970s to one of the pharmaceutical industry's most attractive product lines today.
>...the vaccine court limits compensation in death cases to $250,000.
>Even if they had won their cases, the families of autistic children wouldn't have been paid by the companies that make the vaccines, as is common in other pharmaceutical-liability cases. Instead, the government would have footed the bill, using the funds from a tax levied on inoculations.
You won't hear any of the popular news outlets (who rake in big $ from pharma advertising) talk about this side of the "anti-vax" story. All this anti-vax nonsense is a smokescreen.
>...the vaccine court limits compensation in death cases to $250,000.
>Even if they had won their cases, the families of autistic children wouldn't have been paid by the companies that make the vaccines, as is common in other pharmaceutical-liability cases. Instead, the government would have footed the bill, using the funds from a tax levied on inoculations.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123535050056344903
You won't hear any of the popular news outlets (who rake in big $ from pharma advertising) talk about this side of the "anti-vax" story. All this anti-vax nonsense is a smokescreen.