Funny, there was SARS, MERS, H1N1, swine flu, ebola, and there was no panic in the country
what can one say....
believe what you will
A: In the decision-making, the fundamental strategic flaw was combining all aspects of response into a single “go or no-go” decision – the decision to proceed with characterizing the virus into a vaccine, to produce the vaccine, to test it and to deliver it to every man, woman and child in the USA – that was all decided and announced in March ’76 in one fell swoop.
on the other hand I was there, we were the ones vaccinating our fellow soldiers
It knocked out at least half or battalion, many had bad reactions....I belive at least 30 people directly died from the vaccination
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/6/09-040609/en/The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lost credibility over the ’76 swine flu affair, not only due to about 30 deaths from adverse vaccine reactions?
Had H1N1 influenza been transmitted at that time, the small apparent risk of GBS from immunization would have been eclipsed by the obvious immediate benefit of vaccine-induced protection against swine flu. However, in December 1976, with >40 million persons immunized and no evidence of H1N1 transmission, federal health officials decided that the possibility of an association of GBS with the vaccine, however small, necessitated stopping immunization, at least until the issue could be explored. A moratorium on the use of the influenza vaccines was announced on December 16; it effectively ended NIIP of 1976
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1007_article
The US is reacting, and acting much better then back in the day....
Lets see were the tend lines fall,,,There is talk of some live testing now of different
vaccinations based on proven drugs used for other things..like malaria .