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This one is a real weird forum. Class action against car manufacturer, Toyota, because of 200-400 injuries from airbags? GOOD! Class action against any medical

This one is a real weird forum. Class action against car manufacturer, Toyota, because of 200-400 injuries from airbags? GOOD! Class action against any medical product? VERY BAD! It’s like tainted blood transfusions, glyphosate, vioxx, fen-phen, thalidomide just never happened. I’m guessing the demographics is on the younger and still thinks they are made from steel.

CorrectHorseBat 5y ago
They administered over 1 million doses in about a year. 10,000 doses was the sales projection after a misinformation campaign.
mschuster91 5y ago
There were 1.4M doses administered: > The FDA found only 59 such adverse events out of 1.4 million doses administered, and did not find direct scientific evidence that the Lyme vaccine had caused them. Still, the questions over possible unintended effects were enough to dampen enthusiasm, especially after 121 Lymerix recipients filed a class-action lawsuit against the vaccine’s manufacturer. Reminds me of the entire clusterfuck around the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, with the difference that politicians this time at least pushed for getting vaccinated simply to stop the pandemic.
- rvz 5y ago
  > Reminds me of the entire clusterfuck around the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, with the difference that politicians this time at least pushed for getting vaccinated simply to stop the pandemic. The media in the UK (Especially the BBC) tried to gaslight the British public with the AZ vaccine and using the 'tHErE iS moStLy nO eVIdEncE' trick repeatedly whilst the reports and concerns of blood clots forming in young people kept increasing. It was enough from them to not recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine to them and instead give them Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
resoluteteeth 5y ago
Imagine if it was impossible for anyone to buy a car ever because when cars first went on the market 59 out of 1.4 million people who bought them got joint pain that may not have even been connected with the cars.
- inter_netuser 5y ago
  so the product was so unprofitable it couldn't cover liability insurance with only 59 claims out of 1 millionn units sold? seems it was just not viable commercially.
  - resoluteteeth 5y ago
    If we've created a system where vaccines aren't commercially viable, that seems like a problem in itself.
- drstewart 5y ago
  Let's see how self-driving regulation go first before you say that.
matkoniecz 5y ago
You are arguing with strawman, noone said this.

CorrectHorseBat 5y ago

They administered over 1 million doses in about a year. 10,000 doses was the sales projection after a misinformation campaign.

mschuster91 5y ago

There were 1.4M doses administered: > The FDA found only 59 such adverse events out of 1.4 million doses administered, and did not find direct scientific evidence that the Lyme vaccine had caused them. Still, the questions over possible unintended effects were enough to dampen enthusiasm, especially after 121 Lymerix recipients filed a class-action lawsuit against the vaccine’s manufacturer. Reminds me of the entire clusterfuck around the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, with the difference that politicians this time at least pushed for getting vaccinated simply to stop the pandemic.

rvz 5y ago
> Reminds me of the entire clusterfuck around the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, with the difference that politicians this time at least pushed for getting vaccinated simply to stop the pandemic. The media in the UK (Especially the BBC) tried to gaslight the British public with the AZ vaccine and using the 'tHErE iS moStLy nO eVIdEncE' trick repeatedly whilst the reports and concerns of blood clots forming in young people kept increasing. It was enough from them to not recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine to them and instead give them Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

resoluteteeth 5y ago

Imagine if it was impossible for anyone to buy a car ever because when cars first went on the market 59 out of 1.4 million people who bought them got joint pain that may not have even been connected with the cars.

inter_netuser 5y ago
so the product was so unprofitable it couldn't cover liability insurance with only 59 claims out of 1 millionn units sold? seems it was just not viable commercially.
- resoluteteeth 5y ago
  If we've created a system where vaccines aren't commercially viable, that seems like a problem in itself.
drstewart 5y ago
Let's see how self-driving regulation go first before you say that.

matkoniecz 5y ago

You are arguing with strawman, noone said this.