Comes now the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, or BARDA, which would move the creation of new drugs and vaccines behind a wall of secrecy.
According to legislation approved by the Senate Health Committee, this proposed federal agency would oversee development of drugs and vaccines needed to respond to a flu pandemic or bioterrorist attack.
The act allows development, testing and use of a drug or vaccine without a shred of public information about the process. And, if the particular product does not work as intended, being ineffective or causing illness or death, that information also could be withheld.
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