{"id":5099,"date":"2004-10-29T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T20:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/29\/scherer-seeks-solutions-to-fl"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:17","slug":"scherer-seeks-solutions-to-flu-vaccine-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/29\/scherer-seeks-solutions-to-flu-vaccine-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherer seeks solutions to flu vaccine shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2612'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp; morning-glories&#8211;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; coming down<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; with a cold and fever<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/FONT><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/medbag.gif\" alt=\"medbag\" \/>&nbsp; In a working paper released today by the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/\"><FONT color=\"black\">American Antitrust Institute<\/FONT><\/A>, Emeritus Professor and AAI Senior Fellow <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.fmscherer.com\/\"><FONT color=\"red\">F.M. Scherer<\/FONT><\/A> examines various reasons advanced for the current shortage of flu vaccine in the U.S.,&nbsp;and finds&nbsp;that multiple sourcing with excess capacity built-in would yield more benefits than it costs. <\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\"><STRONG><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/recent2\/351.pdf\"><FONT color=\"black\">An Industrial Organization Perspective on the Influenza Vaccine Shortage<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/STRONG><\/FONT> <FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">(F. M. Scherer, AAI Working Paper 04-03, October 29, 2004)<BR><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">AAI President <A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/whoaai.cfm\"><FONT color=\"black\">Albert Foer<\/FONT><\/A> discusses policy considerations that appear to flow from Dr. Scherer&#8217;s paper in a <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/recent2\/352.pdf\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">press release<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> accompanying the Vaccine Shortage AAI Working Paper.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/archives\/001624.html\"><FONT color=\"black\">Overlawyered <\/FONT><\/A><FONT color=\"black\">recently looked at trial lawyers and the flu vaccine shortage, while <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/2004\/10\/so_close_and_ye.html\"><FONT color=\"black\">Prof. Bainbridge<\/FONT><\/A><FONT color=\"black\"> and&nbsp;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_10\/004941.php\"><FONT color=\"black\">Kevin Drum<\/FONT><\/A><FONT color=\"black\"> focused on regulation as the problem.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">To avoid a lawyerly aftertaste from handing out candy on Sunday, you better check the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/downloads\/promotional\/docs\/041027_halloween.pdf\">Halloween Candy Liability Waiver<\/A> provided by the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/\"><FONT color=\"#003366\"><FONT color=\"black\">Center for Consumer Freedom<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/A>&nbsp;&#8212; Prof. Grace spotlights it today at his <A href=\"http:\/\/riskprof.typepad.com\/tort\/2004\/10\/get_your_hallow.html\"><FONT color=\"black\">place<\/FONT><\/A>. <\/FONT><\/LI><\/DIV><\/UL><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/vampireC.gif\" alt=\"vampC\" \/>&nbsp; <FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">In other antitrust news, the <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/antitrustprof_blog\/\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">AntitrustProf Blog<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> started posting on October, 18, 2004.&nbsp; <FONT color=\"black\">The editor, <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/law.buffalo.edu\/Faculty_And_Staff\/profile.asp?firstlevel=0&amp;filename=ghosh_shubha\"><FONT color=\"black\">Shubha Ghosh<\/FONT><\/A><FONT color=\"black\">,<\/FONT> is an IP\/antitrust specialist at the Buffalo Law School.&nbsp; (via<FONT color=\"black\"> <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.pointoflaw.com\/archives\/000613.php\"><FONT color=\"black\">Point of Law<\/FONT><\/A>).&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<DIV><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/colon.gif\" alt=\"colon\" \/>&nbsp; <FONT size=\"3\">M<\/FONT>y old standby <EM>Master Issa<\/EM> had no antitrust haiku for this post, but he did know a little <\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>something about illness and cures:<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\">the silkworm doctor<BR>has so many patients&#8230;<BR>little girl<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\">first autumn morning&#8211;<BR>a fever-curing<BR>kind of sky<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/ambulance.gif\" alt=\"ambulance\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/ambulancef.gif\" alt=\"ambulance f\" \/><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"red\" size=\"1\"><FONT color=\"#000000\">all haiku by <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/webusers.xula.edu\/dlanoue\/issa\/index.html\"><STRONG>Issa<\/STRONG><\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"1\">, translated by <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.worldhaiku.net\/poetry\/eng\/us\/d.lanoue.htm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\"><STRONG>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; morning-glories&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; coming down&nbsp;&nbsp; with a cold and fever &nbsp; &nbsp; In a working paper released today by the American Antitrust Institute, Emeritus Professor and AAI Senior Fellow F.M. Scherer examines various reasons advanced for the current shortage of flu vaccine in the U.S.,&nbsp;and finds&nbsp;that multiple sourcing with excess capacity built-in would yield more benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1kf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13549,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/13549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}