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Main reason for the drastic decision, which caused bitter disappointment to countless parents and utter chaos in many health departments and school systems, was that experts had found a "definite association" between inoculations with Cutter Laboratories' vaccine and polio...
Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele of the U.S. PHS would not go so far as to say that the polio cases in Cutter-vaccinated children were a direct result of the vaccine, but if the statement made any sense at all, the inoculations must have been at least a contributing factor in the onset of the disease. His announced toll: 52 cases of clinical polio among vaccinated children, 50 of them paralytic and 44 after use of Cutter vac cine. (Among all unvaccinated Americans, the week would be expected to bring reports of no more than 150 cases...
...Cause for Alarm? The stop order did not mean that every batch of vaccine will be fully retested. Instead, said Dr. Scheele, teams of experts from his service will fan out to the five laboratories still making the vaccine (California's Cutter Laboratories remained under ban and under separate investigation), go through them, examine their records, inspect their equipment and methods, and try to decide on this basis whether the vaccine they have shipped or are ready to ship is safe...
Monday. The week began with widespread confidence that the Salk vaccine, excepting possibly some of the Cutter product, was safe and that the real problem was to get enough of it to the right places at the right time. Thus the question of controls loomed larger than that of the vaccine's overall safety. Members of Congress drafted bills providing for compulsory federal controls. But Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby's advisory committee on vaccine distribution adopted a report urging only voluntary controls, relying on "health patriotism." It became increasingly clear that no one in Washington, even...
About 1,000,000 shots of the Cutter vaccine had been shipped, and 300,000 given to children in mass inoculation programs. But the company was one of those that had shipped out a few thousand other doses for commercial distribution as a come-on to win doctors' goodwill. To New York went some 2,200 packages (of three doses each), 1,114 of them to New York City. City health-department inspectors found that 250 physicians had acquired 526 packages privately, and 211 of these doctors had given at least 300 injections to patients of their own choice...