Apparently, the Government Has a “Poke ‘em and Pray” Policy for Vaccinations
Color me surprised that a giant government effort to forestall a nonexistent crisis, hastily-conceived and implemented without credible oversight, is throwing out sizeable errors.
Vaccine maker Sanofi-Aventis SA…is recalling four lots of its pediatric H1N1 swine flu vaccine because it is not as potent as it should be, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
There is no safety concern and children vaccinated from the lots already will not need to be re-vaccinated, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The affected vaccines are pre-filled syringes for children under age 3, the CDC said in a message to state and local health officers, public information officers and doctors’ groups. A CDC spokesman said about 800,000 doses of vaccine from the lots had been distributed to providers.
By the way, that statement from the CDC is different from the one Michelle Malkin quoted this morning. The CDC really can’t say whether the affected children received a potent enough dose of the vaccine or not because the vaccine degraded faster than expected over time (meaning, it was fully-potent when shipped, but lost potency by the time the company retested it later).
I don’t know that I’d be comfortable with that level of uncertainty, with my vaccinations or any other aspect of my health care.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Pray that You Never Get Michelle Malkin’s Undivided Journalistic Attention.
- The ObamaCare Cheat Sheet
- Want to Your Claim to Bounce? Try Government-Run Health Care!
Category: Health Care Craziness
