In the late 1970s, 11 babies died of SIDS in one area of Tennessee. They'd had the same vaccine from the same batch. You can argue whether the vaccine was the cause, but what's interesting is Wyeth's (now Pfizer) response. Call an emergency meeting with the scientists to determine if something had gone wrong with the batch and led to the deaths? Hell, no. Their response was to stop sending a single batch to a single area, instead splitting batches across the country, so no clusters like the Tennessee cluster could be noticed again. (If you think Pharma execs are more moral now than then ... well, enjoy that belief.)
In the late 1970s, 11 babies died of SIDS in one area of Tennessee. They'd had the same vaccine from the same batch. You can argue whether the vaccine was the cause, but what's interesting is Wyeth's (now Pfizer) response. Call an emergency meeting with the scientists to… pic.twitter.com/QKC1Co3LL5
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