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Public Health: Bush's Smallpox Vaccination Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Jennifer Gray
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At the end of last year, President George Bush implemented a smallpox vaccination plan covering military operatives, health care workers, and “first-responders” (such as firefighters and police). The program is administered by the federal Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the states and follows the smallpox vaccination guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September 2002. While inoculation is mandatory for military personnel, health care workers and first-responders are vaccinated on a voluntary basis. The Administration had hoped that 450,000 health care workers would be inoculated within the first month of the program. Toward the end of February, however, only about 1 percent of the anticipated recipients had been inoculated. In Connecticut, which was the first state to begin the nonmilitary component of the program, only three people received vaccinations on the first day.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Summer 2003 , pp. 312 - 314
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2003

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