Smallpox
Vaccinations for Florida health workers delayed
Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 12th, 2003
The first phase of the plan to begin vaccinating about 30,000 disease investigators and front line hospital employees was scheduled to begin January 24. But supplies of the vaccine from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta had not yet arrived in Florida.
A CDC spokesman declined to give shipment dates for the vaccine because of national security reasons.
Rob Hayes, a Florida Department of Health spokesman, said he could not say specifically when in February...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-02-12)
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