The Swine Flu Affair Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease (1978) / Chapter Skim
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9 Starting and Stopping
9 Starting and Stopping
Pages 54-60
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As part of Millar's planning, spurred by Dull's awareness, CDC had written, printed and sent forward to the states some 60 million forms for use when vaccine was ready. Then the August legislation came along with a proviso, authored in the Kennedy Subcommittee, that a wholly separate body, the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, should review and consult on consent forms.
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Even so, the cumulative coverage of swine flu by all media, from February through the early August scare and legislation, produced an extraordinary result. The Gallup Poll reported August 31 that 93 percent of all Americans had heard about the swine flu program; 53 percent intended to get shots.
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On October 11, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, three persons over 70, all with cardiac conditions, dropped dead shortly after receiving swine flu shots at the same clinic. An alert UPI reporter picked up the story from a local paper and sent it over the wires; subsequent stories featured the fact that the same batch of Parke-Davis vaccine was involved.
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Ford and his family got televised flu shots. Cooper gave the press both lab reports establishing the vaccine's innocence and tough talk about "body count mentality." Allegheny County and five states announced resumption of inoculations; the other four said they would do so shortly.
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But with this one exception there were none the swine flu virus could have caused, or vaccine cured. Between October 1 and December 16, more than 40 million Americans received swine flu shots through Sencer's program.
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What we now think occurred, on insufficient evidence, is that Federal officials tried to influence state counterparts and they in turn tried variably to energize their local health departments. The locals, not the others, were decisive for most states.
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Entitled, "Swine Flu Fiasco," it rounded off the points that he had previously made in anonymity: The sorry debacle of the swine flu vaccine program provides a fitting end point to the misunderstandings and misconceptions that have marked Govern ment approaches to health care during the last eight years .
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