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Tight Control? While the foundation was busy with its needles, U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby belatedly gathered 100 experts in Washington for a conference on allocation of vaccine and enforcement of any controls that might be ordered. Represented were her own department, the National Foundation, state...
First on the agenda were reports of who was making how much vaccine and where it was going. The foundation was still getting slow delivery. Despite this, certain companies had unwisely started to ship out some vaccine-200,000 shots in all-for commercial distribution as soon as it was...
Then the conference proposed (and Secretary Hobby and the President promptly approved) a national advisory committee on the vaccine, headed by Dr. Keefer. The committee will gather data from the states on their needs, then recommend allocations. Within each state there will have to be a similar committee to divide...
The immediate shortage of vaccine may actually prove a blessing in the long run. It means that with tighter controls until June there is small danger of a major black market.
Doctors' Dilemma. Most of the confusion about vaccine distribution could have been avoided if the Government, the National Foundation, the A.M.A. and local medical societies had begun to cooperate months ago. They might easily have made plans for joint action on allocations, but simply failed to get together. The...