Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nineteen states have already established flu advisory councils; the Red Cross is advertising home nursing courses especially for the feared onslaught; confused priority and quota systems for vaccine distribution are being mulled over by local and national health authorities; and a small vaccine black market is in operation.
The feverish preparations, were they better coordinated, might be able to improve the outlook even more. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Surgeon General's Office, however, show little desire to control the situation nationally. The latest pronouncement of the Public Health Service asks that vaccine production...
Even the priority systems in adjacent areas will probably not be co-ordinated. Consequently, one town may provide vaccine for all its municipal employees and another only for medical people who are liable to come into close contact with the disease. No system has been set up to exchange the...
Vaccine production, itself, shows no signs of direction or control. Estimates vary from 60 million shots ready by Feb. 1 to 85 million by Dec. 31, but there is so little collaborative effort in this field, too, that only 6.9 million have been made available to date. Furthermore, the possibility...
The vaccine, even if produced in large enough quantity, will be largely ineffective unless distributed soon in the most vulnerable areas. As a dosage requires seven to ten days to provide immunity, it is useless in an area where numbers of cases have already appeared. Most logically, the vaccine would...