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Thursday, 10 May 2018
quote [ LYMErix had the misfortune of being approved the same year some people were becoming suspicious of vaccines in the United States. In 1998, the journal Lancet published a now-retracted study that (falsely) claimed the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) was linked to autism, and the modern anti-vax movement was born.
At the same time, a few members of the FDA panel that approved LYMErix had voiced a theoretical concern that the drug could cause an autoimmune reaction leading to arthritis. The idea was that as the immune system learned to attack the protein that covered the Lyme bacteria, it could overreact and start to attack healthy tissue in the body. This side effect didn’t occur in the clinical trial. It was just a hypothetical possibility. ] Interesting read /25 chars
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perezoso said @ 12:40am GMT on 11th May
But the real solution for a lot of vaccines is for the government to contract production and distribute them via our (increasingly endangered) public health system. The fundamental discoveries that enable pantloads of them were paid for by you and me - i.e. publicly-funded research - and the government has quite a bit of ability to shape how they are produced and sold. But the dotards of HHS, perhaps because of things like stock options and fat consulting fees, stubbornly refuse to assert those public interests. I don't know this vaccine in particular, but it's probably not expensive to produce, and it's apparently off-patent ... fucking greed for higher-than-generic profit margins and fear of liability stand in the way of the private sector.... so let the government do it. Even the good ole US Army has wanted a "GOCO" vaccine facility for years because they too have need for weird, commercially unviable jabs from time to time.
perezoso said @ 12:42am GMT on 11th May
But the real solution for a lot of vaccines is for the government to contract production and distribute them via our (increasingly endangered) public health system. The fundamental discoveries that enable pantloads of them were paid for by you and me - i.e. publicly-funded research - and the government has quite a bit of ability to shape how they are produced and sold. But the dotards of HHS, perhaps because of things like stock options and fat consulting fees, stubbornly refuse to assert those public interests. I don't know this vaccine in particular, but it's probably not expensive to produce, and it's apparently off-patent ... fucking greed for higher-than-generic profit margins and fear of liability stand in the way of the private sector.... so let the government do it. Even the good ole US Army has wanted a "GOCO" vaccine facility for years because they too have need for weird, commercially unviable jabs from time to time.
Or, to put it more simply, the frustration should be vented on the pharma pigs and not so much the misguided but genuine anti-vaxxers.
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perezoso said @ 12:40am GMT on 11th May [Score:1 Insightful]
But the real solution for a lot of vaccines is for the government to contract production and distribute them via our (increasingly endangered) public health system. The fundamental discoveries that enable pantloads of them were paid for by you and me - i.e. publicly-funded research - and the government has quite a bit of ability to shape how they are produced and sold. But the dotards of HHS, perhaps because of things like stock options and fat consulting fees, stubbornly refuse to assert those public interests. I don't know this vaccine in particular, but it's probably not expensive to produce, and it's apparently off-patent ... fucking greed for higher-than-generic profit margins and fear of liability stand in the way of the private sector.... so let the government do it. Even the good ole US Army has wanted a "GOCO" vaccine facility for years because they too have need for weird, commercially unviable jabs from time to time.
Or, to put it more simply, the frustration should be vented on the pharma pigs and not so much the misguided but genuine anti-vaxxers.
