Hampton Roads Daily Press

Biological Warfare: Public Money, Private Profits, No Results

So the New York Times finally gets around to a story wondering Where’s Our Anthrax Vaccine, Huh? Don’t bother with the story, it’s kinda worthless. But it is accompanied with an interesting graphic which includes a bar chart of how much money has been promised, and paid, to the two companies in this dogfight.

Two companies were promised money, but only one company actually got money so far, and quite a lot of it in fact. And they have so far produced anthrax vaccine in the quantity of zero, zip, nil, nada. No prospect of any anytime soon either.  Read more