Word: offing
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The government-appointed vaccination authorities at the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta (a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service) are divided. The current official recommendation is for vaccination between the first and second birthdays. Some N.C.D.C. experts favor abandoning the routine vaccination of children at any age. On...
Give with VIG. While health authorities are unlikely soon to adopt Kempe's proposal for a near-total halt to mass vaccination, potent agents for reducing its ravages are already available. One is a safer vaccine that Kempe has devised. Before that, or something like it, comes into general...
One point on which all the warring factions agree is that doctors should be far more careful before giving the present vaccine. Children with leukemia, or on steroid drugs that depress the immune reaction, obviously should not be vaccinated. Nor should a child with eczema or a history of recent...
While vaccinators insist that with more care the number of bad reactions could be sharply reduced, this is a counsel of perfection never yet and unlikely ever to be fully observed. Clearly, new and safer vaccines and revised vaccination schedules are needed.