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The feverish preparations, were they better coordinated, might be able to improve the outlook even more. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Surgeon General's Office, however, show little desire to control the situation nationally. The latest pronouncement of the Public Health Service asks that vaccine production...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Flu | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Even the priority systems in adjacent areas will probably not be co-ordinated. Consequently, one town may provide vaccine for all its municipal employees and another only for medical people who are liable to come into close contact with the disease. No system has been set up to exchange the...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Flu | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Vaccine production, itself, shows no signs of direction or control. Estimates vary from 60 million shots ready by Feb. 1 to 85 million by Dec. 31, but there is so little collaborative effort in this field, too, that only 6.9 million have been made available to date. Furthermore, the possibility...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Flu | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

The vaccine, even if produced in large enough quantity, will be largely ineffective unless distributed soon in the most vulnerable areas. As a dosage requires seven to ten days to provide immunity, it is useless in an area where numbers of cases have already appeared. Most logically, the vaccine would...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Flu | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

So far in the United States the majority of the flu cases have been reported in coastal or port areas--California had 25,000 cases by August 17, Houston, Dallas, and New York City have both reported what are still minor outbreaks, Louisiana and Mississippi have a total of 45...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Flu | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

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