In the early 1980s, vaccine manufacturers were losing BIG money.

In the early 1980s, vaccine manufacturers were losing BIG money.

For every $1 they made off the DTP vaccine, they were losing $20 to injury lawsuits.

So Wyeth (now Pfizer) went to the Reagan White House and demanded liability protections with the threat of getting out of the vaccine business.

President Reagan asked Wyeth why they couldn’t make safer vaccines. Wyeth answered that they couldn’t because vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.”