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Most available vaccine will probably continue to be distributed free during 1956 (doctors usually charge a fee for administering the injections privately). Some states, e.g., Illinois and Colorado, have decided to freeze out commercial vac cine for the present, distribute their entire allotment free. Others are increasing their allotment of...
Although polio suffered one of its periodic (and unexplainable) natural declines in the U.S. during 1955, doctors credited the Salk vaccine with causing a 25% drop in the number of polio cases among the 7,000,000 children who were vaccinated. It had this success despite distribution snafus and faulty...
Given & Bought. The U.S. Public Health Service allocates all available polio vaccine to states that request it (usually on the basis of the number of unvaccinated children and pregnant women). Each state decides how much of its total will be distributed free-from supplies bought with either federal or state...
School & Office. The distribution of vaccine is progressively moving out of the schools into public-health clinics and the offices of general practitioners and pediatricians. Polio shots are being tied in with general immunization programs. Yet many parents are showing little initiative about having their children inoculated, despite doctors'...
Last week the Public Health Service announced that 45% of the vaccine that states have received under the Government's voluntary control plan has not been used. Public apathy is not the only reason: some states are stockpiling vaccine in order to have enough for mass inoculations later. The...