You are incorrect regarding dilution of vaccine stockpiles. The US gov't has already completed dilution experiments and the vaccine was still viable.Good. But the British vaccine that was ordered won't be available for months and our currently available Vaccinia stocks are small.
Are you an American citizen?
No, I'm a British Microbiologist.
I found out yesterday that the Russians continued routine mass vaccination against Smallpox into the mid 1980s. The younger brother of one of my Russian colleagues was vaccinated against Smallpox even though he is only 17. They had some audacity overtly continuing routine mass vaccination against Smallpox for 5 years after it was announced by the WHO that the disease had been exterminated.
Britain discontinued routine Smallpox vaccination in the 1960s. When did the USA discontinue it?