Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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without having had polio vaccine. Children not yet vaccinated must start getting shots at once.
The tetanus, typhoid, and smallpox innoculations are offered without charge by the Health Service, as part of the student medical plan. The service will administer typhus and cholera shots, but students much purchase the vaccine for these. Yellow fever shots are handled only by U.S. Public Health Service hospitals.
Wells also urged that anyone who has not yet been vaccinated against polio make an appointment for a first shot as soon as possible. The second shot follows in about a month. The vaccine is offered free by the state of Massachusetts to anyone under 20.
...suggested limiting shots to the under-20 age group, plus pregnant women, until the shortage eased. This would cut the number of unvaccinated eligibles to 23 million. But most city and county health departments could not meet even this goal: from Massachusetts to Illinois, Colorado and California, would-be vaccinees were all set to roll up their sleeves only to be told, "Sorry-no vaccine." Dozens of scheduled clinics were postponed, and hundreds more that had been planned were simply not scheduled...
The great drive to get 58 million more Americans under the age of 40 vaccinated against polio before the 1957 epidemic season (TIME, March 18) was stalled in its tracks. The difficulty-familiar in the troubled history of polio vaccination since 1954 - was the off -again, on-again supply of...