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'.
Tom Harkin: “The fact that we were using 60-year-old technologies to make important vaccines like H1N1 was one of the reasons that…”
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Harkin critiques outdated technologies in vaccine production as a failure in bioresponse preparedness.
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