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Ford's request had the backing of a blue-ribbon medical advisory committee-including Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, of polio vaccine fame-but critics of the program charge that the Administration left unanswered some nagging questions. Among them:
HEW's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Theodore Cooper, says vaccines are effective against flu about 80% of the time, but other scientists argue that vaccination offers only haphazard protection. Because flu viruses mutate so frequently, vaccines produced to combat one strain may be less effective against a...
Last week, after two White House meetings with top health authorities, President Ford took an extraordinary step to avert any repetition of that disaster. He called for the inoculation of the entire U.S. population-a program that would exceed even the record-breaking 100 million oral doses of polio vaccine...
The new vaccine will entail some risks. The new vaccine will not be effective against other known flu strains. Also, some Americans could develop strong allergic reactions to the egg-grown vaccine. But for the overwhelming majority, the only aftereffect of the shots will be nothing more than a sore...
In New York, for example, State Health Commissioner Robert P. Whalen reports that about 20% of the 300,000 children due to enter first grade have not been immunized against polio, measles or rubella. Most of them are not even protected against diphtheria, the vaccine for which is included in...