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Health Secretary Oveta Hobby added another reason, in the most foolish statement yet made about the situation: "No one could have foreseen the public demand for the vaccine."
Nobody at the top seemed sure just how much vaccine was available, or would soon be. There were at least four reasons why the pinch had not been accurately foreseen:
¶Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories had been expected to supply one-sixth of the total, were out of the running and would stay out as long as their vaccine remained under suspicion.
¶ Official figures on the amount of vaccine released had always been misleading by 10%, because the makers put almost 10 cc. in each vial labeled 9 cc., to make up for the few drops lost every time a doctor changes needles.
¶ Some batches of vaccine "went sour" (showed either presence of active virus or absence of potency) after they had been counted in the available supply.