> The difference between a drug and a vaccine?
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> It was just announced GSK “will pay up to $2.2 billion to settle roughly 80,000 state court cases claiming Zantac [a heartburn drug] … caused them to develop cancer.”
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> If Zantac were, however, a childhood vaccine (such as GSK’s Hep B vaccine, Tdap vaccine, flu shot, MMR vaccine, etc.) there would be no $2.2 billion payment and this product would still be considered safe and effective. Why? Because the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 gave GSK immunity for design defect claims and direct failure to warn claims for injuries caused by its childhood vaccines. Caveat emptor. https://law360.com/classaction/articles/1888571?copied=1
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I believe that Republicans were trying to allow more innovation and development with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act but it ended up causing problems decades later with Covid.
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> The difference between a drug and a vaccine?
>
> It was just announced GSK “will pay up to $2.2 billion to settle roughly 80,000 state court cases claiming Zantac [a heartburn drug] … caused them to develop cancer.”
>
> If Zantac were, however, a childhood vaccine (such as GSK’s Hep B vaccine, Tdap vaccine, flu shot, MMR vaccine, etc.) there would be no $2.2 billion payment and this product would still be considered safe and effective. Why? Because the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 gave GSK immunity for design defect claims and direct failure to warn claims for injuries caused by its childhood vaccines. Caveat emptor. https://law360.com/classaction/articles/1888571?copied=1
I believe that Republicans were trying to allow more innovation and development with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act but it ended up causing problems decades later with Covid.