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¶Vaccine production is ahead of schedule, with an estimated 8,000,000 doses to be available by mid-September, v. previous estimates of 6,000,000. By Jan. 1 there should be 85 million doses, enough to inoculate half the U.S. population, v. earlier hopes for only 60 million...
Some Britons (especially physicians) with U.S. connections are getting "unsolicited gifts" of American vaccine for their children. More U.S. vaccine is being smuggled in, sold on the black market. The Sunday Express asked angrily: "Why did the Ministry refuse to import the Salk vaccine offered by America [4,000,000...
Trouble was that of two firms licensed to make Britain's own modified Salk vaccine, only one had got into production, and this was far behind schedule. But the Ministry stuck to its guns, insisted that British vaccine is safer and more effective than the American.* British critics of...
Although the U.S. so far has had a good polio year (TIME, Aug. 12), there were also complaints about the vaccination program. The U.S. Public Health Service last week got a slap on the wrist from the House Committee on Government Operations investigating the vaccine situation. Charged a committee report...
*The British vaccine differs from the U.S. chiefly in not using the virulent Mahoney strain to immunize against Type 1 polio infections. It substitutes a less virulent strain of the same type.