Originally Posted by T_O_M
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
The simple fact that congress gave the pharms a pass on liability scares me enough to stay away.


Congress did that back in the Reagan years. It applies to this current situation but it was not done to prepare for the current situation.

Tom

Vaccines are generally a low profit item for the manufacturers and there will always be some bad side effects from vaccines. As a result, if it was easy to sue the manufacturers, they wouldn't make the vaccines.

In this case, the Trump administration guaranteed the drug companies that they would purchases hundreds of millions of doses at good prices as an incentive to get the vaccines produced quickly.