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On the recordSeptember 28, 2010
The fact that we were using 60-year-old technologies to make important vaccines like H1N1 was one of the reasons that Senator Graham and Talent and the commissioners gave that 'F'.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin critiques outdated technologies in vaccine production as a failure in bioresponse preparedness.

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