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Transcript: PRESIDENT CLINTON LAUNCHES NEW EFFORT TO INCREASE IMMUNIZATION RATES AMONG CHILDREN NATIONWIDE BUILDS UPON UNPRECEDENTED PROGRESS TO TARGET
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- December 11, 2000
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Today, President Clinton, joined by former First Lady Rosalynn
Carter, will take strong new action to increase immunization rates
among
children nationwide. In an effort to build on the Clinton-Gore Administration'
s
unprecedented progress in improving immunization rates, the President
will
issue an executive memorandum directing the Department of Agriculture
(USDA)
to assess the immunization status of the five million children under
the
age of five participating in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
program
and refer them to a health care provider when appropriate. This memorandum
will also direct USDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
to develop a ...