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Asian flu by last week had attacked an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S. Though manufacturers were pouring out vaccine far faster than expected (3,700,000 doses last week), there was a serious snarl over who was to get the inoculations and when. With only voluntary priorities suggested...
By and large, doctors and nurses got their shots early, as recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. The armed forces, on a separate allocation, were getting vaccine as fast as they could use it. Beyond that, the PHS planners' hope that manufacturers would funnel the vaccine to essential...
He also conceded that the Services had a small supply of vaccine on hand, and that they planned to use an experimental method of injection which would spread the serum to three times as many people as could receive the customary dose.
While U.S. health authorities were studying more economical use of Asian-influenza vaccine, Britain was taking its flu lying down. An estimated 60,000 children in England and Wales were out of school. In several Midland industrial towns, transport workers were sick and bus service had to be curtailed. In...
Through it all the British made little effort to get a vaccination program going. Only one firm is now making vaccine, and none is yet available. Whatever is produced will go to doctors and nurses. The government pooh-poohs the flu and the Health Ministry offered mostly slogans: "Coughs and...