These are weak and specious arguments for the extraordinary protection from liability that vaccine manufactures enjoy in the US. Every practicing physician in the US working to prolong and improve human lives is subject to the "slings and arrows of outrageous civil litigation" every day - yet nearly a million doctors continue to offer services to the public. If the US liability system is unfair, it should be reformed for everyone, rather than giving certain parties this extraordinary protection.

Public trust in the vaccine approval and recommendation process and in the pharma industry is now so badly damaged that the US is going to have to reexamine this policy.