Word: boosterism
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...Salk does not know whether this degree of immunity will last for a lifetime or only a few years. He can go back only 2½ years in pointing to test subjects who have enjoyed vaccine-conferred immunity. So it may be that all the vaccinated will need booster shots every five or ten years. However, this is more a scientific possibility than a probability. In summary, Dr. Francis suggested that the vaccine had been 80-90% effective in the placebo-control states and 60-70% effective in observed-control states. Most vaccines now in general use against virus diseases...
...test. ¶1,180,000 pioneers in 33 states, in the first and third grades last year, who were "observed controls" but got no injection. ¶440,000 pioneers who received vaccine last year but on a less effective, condensed schedule (they will get one shot as a booster). These groups will get their shots from volunteer doctors and nurses at inoculation centers now being set up across the nation in schools and other public buildings. As soon as each batch of vaccine is checked by federal health authorities, it is being shipped to the centers-first to Southern states...
...trailer takeoff, an F-84 Thunderjet is equipped with a big "booster bottle" (solid propellant rocket) fixed under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from...
...physicians practicing in groups has no stronger advocate than Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser. He has built the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan into a 475,000-member concern with 507 doctors and twelve hospitals (TIME, June 29, 1953). And for a long time the Kaiser plan had no more high-pressure booster than Author Paul (Microbe Hunters) de Kruif, the nation's best-known writer on medical subjects. Twelve years ago, no superlative was too sweeping for De Kruif's praise of scientific and efficient group practice as against individual care by the old-fashioned family doctor...
...found a new home-on the blue line as a key performer and defense morale booster for the new aggressive Yale hockey team...