Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the four seasons that Salk vaccine has been available, paralytic poliomyelitis has declined in the U.S. by 80%, the Department of Health, Education' and Welfare reported last week. Though some of this dramatic decline might have been coincidental, it was attributed "in major part" to the vaccine. Paralytic...
In all, 215 million doses-more than 200 tons-of this vaccine have been released. Of 67 million persons in the top priority bracket (those under 20 and pregnant women). 25 million have had the recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9...
The Health Services has almost finished inoculating key University personnel, and will begin injecting students as soon as regular supplies of vaccine begin arriving "We will start arbitrarily, with a big block of students," Farnsworth stated.
By and large, doctors and nurses got their shots early, as recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. The armed forces, on a separate allocation, were getting vaccine as fast as they could use it. Beyond that, the PHS planners' hope that manufacturers would funnel the vaccine to essential...
Best estimates are that the epidemic will strike most of the U.S. in full force before October's end, and that for the majority of the population vaccination will be too late to give protection against early attacks. By midwinter it may do more good. Some San Francisco doctors...