To paraphrase a local radio station disk jockey from my youth, “The hits just keep on coming.” We have had, among others, Fast and Furious and Solyndra scandals. As if those scandals weren’t enough, we now get Siga Technologies. What, you ask, is Siga? Well, hopefully this post will inform you.
Siga is a pharmaceuticals company, whose controlling stockholder is Ronald O. Perelman, a major democrat donor. (BTW, for a list of Perelman political contributions, see this link.) The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has signed a no-bid contract with Siga Technologies for $443 million (as much as $2.8 billion if the government exercises its purchase option) to buy a high priced drug to combat smallpox.
From this source, we learn that Siga got:
Bottom line: Smallpox has been eradicated and only “is known to exist only in the locked freezers of a Russian scientific institute and the U.S. government.” The government’s pursuit of Siga’s product raises the question: Should the U.S. buy an unproven drug for such a nebulous threat as a smallpox biological attack?
But that’s just my opinion.
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