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The United States is facing a vaccine shortage that may threaten public health. This book examines vaccine research and development, production and supply, and utilization and offers recommendations aimed at ensuring vaccine supply and promoting innovation. In addition, this comprehensive volume provides information on the adverse reactions associated with the range of vaccines used in the United States and contains the most thorough analysis ever published on the state of the law regarding vaccine-related injury and compensation for vaccine injury.Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Summary 2 Vaccines: Past, Present, and Future 3 Vaccine Availability: Concerns, Barriers, and Impediments 4 Economic Aspects of Vaccine Innovation and Manufacturing 5 Vaccine Injury 6 Liability for the Production and Sale of Vaccines 7 An Approach to Problems of Communication, Coordination, andCollaboration in Vaccine Policy 8 Vaccine Injury Compensation and Liability Remedies Appendix A: Product License Holders Appendix B: A Vaccine Supply Public Insurance Option Appendix C: No-Fault Vaccine Injury Insurance Appendix D: Injury Compensation Systems in the United States Appendix E: Vaccine-Injury Compensation in Other Countries Appendix F: Proposed Vaccine-Injury Compensation Systems Appendix G: Mechanisms Used in Other Countries to Ensure VaccineSupply Appendix H: Background Papers Appendix I: Biographical Notes on Committee Members and Consultants Appendix J: Recommendations for the Proposed Vaccine Commission Index