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That'll almost certainly be Tylenol.
> No other pharmaceutical product has been deemed so risky that it couldn't exist unless people were prevented from suing its manufacturers.
That's not why the program exists. It was deemed risky for the national security of the United States to lose its ability to manufacture vaccines because twelve lay people in a jury room decide to bankrupt a drug company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compen...
"The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or NVICP) was established by the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), passed by the United States Congress in response to a threat to the vaccine supply due to a 1980s scare over the DPT vaccine. Despite the belief of most public health officials that claims of side effects were unfounded, large jury awards had been given to some plaintiffs, most DPT vaccine makers had ceased production, and officials feared the loss of herd immunity."
Imagine trading a low risk in the distant future for a low risk in the present for a healthy child?
Any business person knows things that potentially happen in the distant future are to be heavily discounted, while present day risks carry full values.
Any parent knows that a business folding and a child dying aren't quite the same thing.
Your child may die or be seriously injured by HPV vaccines. There are about 80 open class action lawsuits in process over it.
We took most of the other vaccines, but my partner and I decided the HPV vaccine was too dangerous right now, while we have happy healthy kids, to worry about the small chance that an unproven cervical cancer vaccine will work thirty years from now.
This is remarkably ignorant.
The vaccine prevents HPV infection. Kids absolutely do get that. HPV infection can lead to cervical cancer, and we're on an article about how it's thus most effective if administered before the age of 14.
Acetaminophen is the riskiest pharmaceutical product the average young person will take.
It's so risky that EMS and ED staff are extremely well attuned to detecting and deploying effective interventions so that even when one doesn't die due to the entire scientific might of medicine being thrown at them, about a third of people who overdose and survive will have kidney and stomach problems for the rest of their (quite frankly, miserable) lives.
The antivax morons would be better served by being antiaceta.