Voting for Bush, Voting to Get a Smallpox Shot

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Week in Review Desk | May 18, 2003, Sunday
Voting for Bush, Voting to Get a Smallpox Shot

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA (NYT) 653 words
Late Edition - Final , Section 4 , Page 2 , Column 1

LEAD PARAGRAPH - THE Bush administration's program to vaccinate 500,000 medical professionals against smallpox has been troubled, to put it kindly, with about 36,000 people inoculated so far. Many doctors and nurses questioned whether the vaccinations were needed or safe.

But this is no general, nationwide pattern. In some states, the program has gone swimmingly. In others, it has barely gone along at all. Vaccination rates range from 96.4 of 100,000 people in South Dakota, to 0.5 per 100,000 in Nevada. In New York and New Jersey, smallpox vaccination rates are well below the national average.

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