US Senator Richard Burr is planning to enact legislation that will deny American citizens the right to sue the government and vaccine manufacturers in
the event of any harm being caused by faulty vaccines in the event of a national medical emergency.
National Vaccine Information Center
Washington, D.C. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of
2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a
consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed
drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
The legislation's architect, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Chairman of the HELP Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness, told the
full HELP Committee yesterday that the legislation" creates a true partnership" between the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and
academia to walk the drug companies "through the Valley of Death" in bringing a new vaccine or drug to market. Burr said it will give the Department
of Health and Human Services "additional authority and resources to partner with the private sector to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines." The Burr
bill gives the Secretary of DHHS the sole authority to decide whether a manufacturer violated laws mandating drug safety and bans citizens from
challenging his decision in the civil court system.
The bill establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA), as the single point of authority within the government for the
advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks such as the flu. BARDA will operate
in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused
by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public.
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I've put up an Op/Ed discussing the legislation, but I thought I'd post it here as well for maximum exposure since I consider this to be an
extremely disturbing piece of news for Americans and for the global pandemic issue.
Op/Ed: Behold a Pale H5N1 Horse...
[edit on 2005-10-21 by wecomeinpeace]
