“There was nothing in this for the CDC except trouble. Here we were at the end of one flu season with time to try to do something before the next flu season. The obvious thing to do was to immunize everybody. But if we tried to do that, guide it, help it along, we might have to interrupt a hell of a lot of work on other diseases.” Suppose there was an influenza pandemic, the meeting participant said. An immunization program was an almost certain invitation to disaster. Those who had been unable to get the flu shots in time would be angry because they would be vulnerable. Those who were
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