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$4.2 Billion: The Contested Price of Keeping Vaccines Available
$4.2 Billion: The Contested Price of Keeping Vaccines Available
The figure $4.2 billion lands like an indictment - the total paid by the U.S. National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as of October 2019, excluding attorneys' fees - but that number masks a far more complicated story about lawsuits, manufacturers exiting the market, and a federal choice to preserve vaccine supply. How did litigation, a Vaccine Injury Compensation with precise symptom windows, and thousands of denied claims produce an amount now used as proof of a hidden epidemic?
In this episode, we lay out what the program…
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