He recommends a strategy to address the problems that will inevitably badger these companies when “rumors were actually spreading” that their shoddily tested products “are causing deaths and so patients are not taking them anymore.” He suggests, “maybe we’re in the mistake of reporting and counting all the fatalities and infections.”261 This worry may explain why federal regulators chose to deliberately maintain a dysfunctional surveillance system designed to hide more than 99 percent of vaccine injuries.