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Scientists in the Public Health Service persuaded Congress--and tried to persuade the public--that an influenza epidemic as devastating as that of 1918 was likely to occur this winter. The scientists also claimed that in six months they could produce a safe and effective vaccine to protect against this...
Three Med School professors have charged that current criticisms of the swine flu vaccination program are unfounded and said they would have begun the shots even had they known about the paralysis that has killed several recipients of the vaccine.
Rutstein said yesterday federal health officials administered the vaccine to eight to ten thousand subjects before beginning the nationwide program, which reached over 40 million people, and fears that the vaccine would not be available until after the epidemic's start limited testing time.
Langmuir said he "liked the idea" of stockpiling a sufficient amount of the vaccine to inoculate every adult and only administering the vaccine to high-risk people--the old and those with respiratory diseases--but that this option was politically undesirable.
"Congress wouldn't have let us stockpile $135 million of vaccine and then not use it if an epidemic didn't develop," he said