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...week long, the casualty list among children inoculated with Salk vaccine kept going up, but fortunately the rate of climb was slowed. The U.S. Public Health Service got moving on its promised "re appraisal" of all vaccine so far finished by the manufacturers. By week's end the reappraisal teams were authorizing renewed release of vaccine, and inoculations could resume this week...
...Salk vaccine of 1954 was safe, as was proved by more than 400,000 inoculations with only 71 subsequent cases of paralytic polio (none of them attributable to the vaccine). But the Salk vaccine of 1955 is not the same as that of 1954. A big difference is in the testing procedures...
Monday. The week began with widespread confidence that the Salk vaccine, excepting possibly some of the Cutter product, was safe and that the real problem was to get enough of it to the right places at the right time. Thus the question of controls loomed larger than that of the vaccine's overall safety. Members of Congress drafted bills providing for compulsory federal controls. But Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby's advisory committee on vaccine distribution adopted a report urging only voluntary controls, relying on "health patriotism." It became increasingly clear that no one in Washington, even...
Thursday. The Washington Post wasp-ishly called Ike's press conference "a miracle of confusion" (but far more confusion was to come). The first child in the Southeast to die of polio after receiving Salk vaccine was Eugene Allen Davis Jr., 2½, of New Orleans, grandson of famed Cancer Surgeon Alton Ochsner. But New York City parents showed their continuing confidence in the vaccine: fewer than 1% withdrew permission for their children to be inoculated...
...pared-down technical committee on immunology began meeting with Surgeon General Scheele and Dr. Salk at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., ten miles from downtown Washington. The session lasted until...