Assignment 5: The National Child Vaccines

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Today, Tuesday October 2nd, the US Federal vaccine court awarded a staggering 61 million dollars to a family after their baby was severely injured after receiving the DTaP vaccine. The court documents show that hours after the baby received the vaccination in 2007 she started to have seizures, abnormal breathing, irregular heartbeats, and at 6:05am the next morning, her heart stopped completely. At which point she needed 6 minutes of CPR to be revived. Sadly, she has been on life supporting machines ever since.

The family's lawyer Anne Carrión Toale, stated that the 61 million will go towards paying for the around the clock care that S.M. (the initials of the injured child) will need because of being severely injured by the vaccine.
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In fact, in 2013 alone the court paid out around 375 million in vaccine injury lawsuits in 2013 and over 3 billion since its inception in 1986! These stats are gaudy and illustrate just how unsafe vaccines are. However, none of the 3 billion awarded by this court has come from the pharmaceutical companies themselves. The National Childhood Vaccines Injury Act of 1986, which created a separate court system to hear these cases also created a vaccine tax for the expressed purpose to pay any money awarded via any lawsuit for children injured by vaccine. That's right, the industry has ZERO liability and the lawsuit money solely comes fromtaxing people that get a vaccine. So, if you or your child are injured by the vaccine you are technically helping payout your

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