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...questions for a time, but events claw at him 24 hours a day. There is no escape. "The whole damned world ends up on the White House threshold," sighed a Ford aide last week. At about that moment Ford was down in the basement, sleeve rolled up, getting his swine-flu shot to demonstrate it was safe. Three elderly people had died in Pennsylvania after receiving the shot, and doubts about the program were immediately directed at the White House. HEW Secretary David Mathews flagged the President's Washington staff, which informed the campaigning Ford. The President devised...
Heeding the advice of health officials, Charles Gabig, 71, a retired telephone engineer, and two housewives, Mrs. Julia Bucci, 75, and Mrs. Ella Michael, 74, last week joined hundreds of other elderly people in line for swine-flu shots at an Allegheny County clinic on Pittsburgh's south side. Within six hours all three were dead, apparently of heart or lung problems. Soon similar reports were coming in from other parts of the country. Half a day after getting his flu shot, an elderly Floridian collapsed in a bowling alley and died. In Michigan, three aged people succumbed...
ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE AMERICA, says the U.S. Public Health Service's bright new slogan. Yet as the nation's highly touted program against swine flu began last week, most Americans who wanted to take the slogan's advice stood only to get a cold shoulder. Despite the Ford Administration's original vow to vaccinate 200 million Americans against the dread virus-a form of which possibly caused some half-million deaths in the U.S. alone during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic-only a few health centers round the country were ready to give the shots...
Some doctors, of course, are still skeptical that there is anything to guard against. Since the virus first appeared among Army recruits at Fort Dix last winter-one of whom died-there has not been a single confirmed additional case of swine flu. Either the infection is not very contagious, say the scoffers, or the Fort Dix flu cases were just a medical fluke...
...federal program is providing two types of vaccine: monovalent, which offers protection only against swine flu, and bivalent, which also contains vaccine against last year's prevailing A/Victoria influenza strain. Because the virus used in producing the vaccine is cultured in eggs, the shots should not be taken by those who are severely allergic to eggs. The current recommendations of federal health officials...