Word: vaccinees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I suggest that the article on the mishandling of the Salk vaccine, under the heading "Medicine" [May 16], would have been more appropriate under "National Affairs," "Business" or "Theater"-for obvious reasons. Should not the whole tragic circumstance point a moral-that medical problems be handled by the medical profession...
... Is it not ironical that a few supposedly "intellectually acclimatized" politicians are able, in a few short weeks, to make a shambles of the painstakingly thorough job of research Dr. Salk and his staff conducted during the vaccine trials ?
The Cutter question seemed finally answered. It was a rash of polio cases following use of Cutter vaccine that had first halted the vaccination program. For weeks, experts have broadly suggested that some live virus must have slipped through the killing and testing process in the manufacture of the Cutter...
To sweep up some of the dust kicked up by the polio row in his Department of Health. Education and Welfare, President Eisenhower had picked Nelson Rockefeller. Under Secretary in the Department and a presidential troubleshooter, Rockefeller drafted a formal progress report on the vaccine situation, which Ike released last...
¶ What is the next highest priority group? The matter was too inflamed even for the emollient Rockefeller touch, and HEW passed it. Best guess: children one to four years old will win. But this might be a poor choice: the mass trials in 1954 indicated that the vaccine is...