The Department of Health and Human Services has signed a no-bid contract  with Siga Technologies for as much as much as 2.8 billion  dollars’ worth of a high priced drug, for a terrorism threat that may not exist.Â
 The drug’s effectiveness is unknown because it cannot be tested on humans. The threat it is intended to counter is an attack based on Smallpox (which has been eradicated and “is known to exist only in the locked freezers of a Russian scientific institute and the U.S. government.”)
A large stockpile of effective and inexpensive smallpox vaccine already exists. The new drug is intended to be used after exposure to smallpox in the event of a bioterrorism attack.
Even if the threat were real, and the drug actually effective, the expensive (estimated $255 per dose, a price that bears no relationship at all to production cost) stockpile only has a shelf life of 38 months.
By coincidence, Siga is controlled by Billionaire Democrat mega-donor Ronald Perelman.
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So to summarize:Â An untested, possibly fatal drug will be bought for billions of dollars from an Obama supporter to fight an unproven threat which will have to happen within 38 months so the drug’s effect,whatever it is, doesn’t expire.
