After an exhaustive evaluate, federal courts ruled in 2010 that vaccines do not cause autism. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that vaccines prevented greater than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths amongst kids over a 20-year period. A whole of $4.15 billion in compensation has been paid out because the program’s inception. Almost half involved an older vaccine for whooping cough that has not been used for 20 years.