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So, how much immunity would someone 10 years older have? Does this get back to perported "strength" of live virus in early vaccines?

Unknown, to my knowledge, no study exists which shows the strength of the immune factors involved. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals would need to be contacted by the media for more info. However, Wyeth is not exactly appreciated by most pediatricians and family doctors right now.

Wyeth has a patent on a vaccine called Prevnar. In other words, they have a complete monopoly on this vaccine. After they got the patent, the CDC suggested (and the ACIP agreed) to putting Prevnar on the national required vaccine list in 2001. The vaccine is $70.00 per dose and is the single most expensive vaccine on the market. The Wyeth people refuse to permit the doctors a 90 day payment plan (it takes 45-90 days for most insurance companies to reimburse the cost of the vaccine). This means that the medical group/physician has to subsidize the vaccines for the kids in their practice. No other company has such pricing or rules.

Ironically, the company has been in hot water over their inability to properly produce the vaccine in sufficient quantity. So, for the past six months there have been periodic shortages of the vaccine.

Now, class, think about this one... if the company can not produce enough vaccine (and THEY spent two years lobbying the national committees to add the vaccine to the national protocol), does anyone in the class think the company can suddenly produce 10 million doses of smallpox vaccine?

All together class! "NOT"

Hmmm...I heard there is also a shortage of Tetanus as well.

My first question is .. Who owns Wyeth .. that in itself may answer a few questions regarding the problems with them ..

You mention Prevnar. This is an anti-Strep vaccination. Streptococcus pneumoniae (did I get that right?) is responsible of bacterial menengitis, amoung other things. It seems to me that if this vaccine is intended for infants and youngsters, it is probably a multiple dose course of treatment, is it not? What a racket.

OK, so now we know that no only do you have a hard on for HMOs, but you also hate big pharmas. What next? A yearning for hillarycare?