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Looming in the background are torts. If vaccine makers are forced to race ahead of safety in order to get to market and one turns out to be insufficiently safe,
by ISL 6y ago
Looming in the background are torts. If vaccine makers are forced to race ahead of safety in order to get to market and one turns out to be insufficiently safe, the manufacturer may get sued into the ground.
By agreeing not to jump the safety protocol, they are continuing to both limit their liability directly (by ensuring a safer product) and adhere to best-practices (which might help in a future court case).
- jrochkind1 6y agoShh, if you say that too loud, the presidential administration will just indemnify them.
- ralph84 6y agoIt's been decades since vaccine makers had any liability for their products in the US. That hasn't changed with COVID-19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...
- ISL 6y agoI signed a waiver for a non-approved yellow-fever vaccine in the US recently (supply of the approved vaccine is either non-existent or very limited); there must be some level of testing/certification required before reaching that threshold?