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NEW: “In my two decades as a reporter, I’ve sat at many kitchen tables with grieving mothers,” ProPublica reporter Megan Rose writes. “Talking with Holly, though, was the first time I’d done so as a mother myself. Her sorrow hit me differently.”

propublica.orgHer Daughter Died After Taking a Generic Version of a Lifesaving Drug. This Is What She Wants You to Know.Hannah Goetz was 17 when she had a double lung transplant. Her tacrolimus medication was supposed to help her body accept her new lungs. She died at just 21 years old.

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Sadly, a paradoxical reaction can sometimes lead to death, though this is extremely rare and typically happens only in very specific medical situations. The generic drug may or may not have been responsible for the child’s death.

Feels a bit too much like an antivax parent saying "vaccines killed my child." They need to know exactly why something happened and sometimes there's just no good answer. So they make up a bad one.

Generics aren't always safe to begin with but now we have loosened the requirements a bit and it's even worse. So, you can die, spend a mortgage sized payment on name brand, or take generics and potentially make your ailment worse.

is there more to this story somewhere? it just kinda supposes that bad generics could have killed a woman, complains about how hard it is to be a reporter bothering a woman about her dead child, and ends with no conclusion