For 130 state and territorial health officials assembled in Washington last week to map strategy in advance of this winter's expected Asian flu epidemic, Surgeon General LeRoy E. Burney had reassuring news on all fronts:
¶Vaccine production is ahead of schedule, with an estimated 8,000,000 doses to be available by mid-September, v. previous estimates of 6,000,000. By Jan. 1 there should be 85 million doses, enough to inoculate half the U.S. population, v. earlier hopes for only 60 million by February. Half of the vaccine available by September is now earmarked for the...
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