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2 Sencer Decides
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From page 8...
... Dowdle reportedly was cool to claims that a swine virus readily dominated by Victoria at Fort Dix would shortly arise and sweep around the world. In the circumstances he was not much afraid of subclinical spread.
From page 9...
... The next day, at the March 10 ACIP meeting, staff spelled out the situation (couched of course in Dowdle's terms, not those of institutional protection)
From page 10...
... Dr. Russell Alexander of the Public Health School at the University of Washington was the principal proponent of a pause for further evidence.
From page 11...
... In two weeks flu could spread throughout a city. Add air travel and how prevent its spreading through the country unless everyone were immunized beforehand?
From page 12...
... In fact it was to go on up from Mathews to the Office of Management and Budget (0MB) , to the Domestic Council, to the White House, to President Ford, as the decision paper in the case.
From page 13...
... Administratively, as Sencer warned, this was a leap into the dark, "no precedents, nor mechanisms in place," and an heroic response to a dire possibility. Sencer, in so recommending, may have played the hero in his own mind; if so he was but the first who did.
From page 14...
... However that may be, Sencer rolled the felt need to do "something" into one decision: manufacture, planning, immunizing and surveillance all together, and tied the whole to Meyer's deadline for the manufacturers, those egg supplies. On their account the deadline was two weeks away, "go or no go." 14


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