During the 1976 US swine flu vaccination program, prompted by the H1N1 outbreak at Fort Dix, nearly 43 million Americans were vaccinated in the first 10 weeks before the program was halted.
Sources
- Influenza Historic Timeline 1930 and Beyond | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC (archive.cdc.gov)
- https://www.historyofvaccines.org/history/swine-flu-vaccine/overview (historyofvaccines.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391896/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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