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There was [and remains] a substantial chance that the vaccine would not work. The flu vaccine is one of the least successful viral vaccines; even its champions usually estimate no more than 70 per cent effectiveness rate, and that figure is based largely on tests in the Army, where subjects...
It is not surprising, then, that researchers never found a vaccine that worked well in children; that in the 18 to 25-year-old range, two shots were needed for protection; and that every single vaccine was manufactured without neuraminidase, a protective enzyme that most scientists consider an important element...
There was no way to be sure the vaccine would be safe. Vaccines are dangerous. Just as no one can predict how they will work, so no one can be sure they will cause no harm. To meet the fall deadline, manufacturers rushed through the required process of testing first...
The government was justified in offering swine flu vaccine to the elderly and the chronically ill, and the manufacture of enough vaccine for all Americans may also have made sense. But the vaccine should not have been administered to healthy citizens unless it proved necessary--unless swine flu reappeared. Since...
There are only about 20 well-known flu vaccine experts in the United States. They know each other well, serve on committees together and tend to view vaccine policy from the same perspective. They believe in the flu vaccine and they do not emphasize the harm vaccines can cause, either...