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Pat Answer. Many states were getting ready to hold clinics in the schools during vacations, though officials fully recognized that there would be wholesale absenteeism. Parents were relaxing their pressure to get vaccine. The pressure now took on a new form: the big question across the U.S. last week was...
Many parents withdrew or failed to renew consent slips. In New York City, the fallout rate when shots were given last week ran around 30%, in San Francisco about 40%. Most family doctors advised parents to go ahead with vaccination, but in many cases without enthusiasm. Physicians still resented the...
Nobody yet knew how much danger there might be. Of five manufacturers that have shipped vaccine, two (Parke, Davis & Co. and Pitman-Moore) had spotless records: no reported cases of polio after use of their vaccine. But the U.S. (mostly western) total of such cases reached 78: after Cutter vaccine...
Getting Under the Skin? More startling and possibly just as significant, though no epidemiologist wanted to commit himself, was the fact that 23 cases had developed in the families of children who had come down with polio after getting Cutter vaccine. Eleven were adults, and one had died. This was...
PHS officials, headed by Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, were in huddles all week long, much of the time with an advisory committee of top virologists, trying to figure out what to do. One bright suggestion, from state health officials: try giving only 1½ drops (Vw cc.) of vaccine, instead...