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where the heck do you get that data from?

There are NO stockpiles of smallpox vaccine in our area. I've been posting in this board for six months about our demands for such vaccines, but we still haven't seen any of the vaccine companies moving product!

It was excusable last year. It's now this President's responsibility to tell CDC to get the damn vaccine moving. If the Jews in Israel can get the vaccine, is there a reason American Jews can't? Isn't it clear enough that the Jewish population is being targetted by these terrorists? Gov't needs to wake the hell up!

I believe we do have large stockpiles of watered-down smallpox vaccine already, but the new, good-quality stuff looks set to be on-line (all 300 million doses) by the end of the year. Cheney referred to this in his last Russert interview. See this Washington Post story from Thursday: Maker of Smallpox Vaccine Cites Progress.

For info on redirection of military anthrax vaccine to civil defense: Pentagon Shifts Anthrax Vaccine to Civilian Uses .

For info on the government's plans to purchase 25 million doses of anthrax vaccine: RFP ANNOUNCEMENT: PRODUCTION AND TESTING OF VACCINES AGAINST ANTHRAX.