Dr. Paul Offit, a co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, for years has sparred with Kennedy over vaccines. Offit fears that Kennedy will use flawed studies to justify adding autism and other common medical problems to the injury table, no matter how much they conflict with robust scientific research.
“You can do that, and you will bankrupt the program,” he said. “These are ways to end vaccine manufacturing in this country.”
If the trust fund were to run out of money, Congress would have to act, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor at University of California Law San
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