In the 1950s, polio spread throughout the United States. Heartbreakingly, it affected mainly children. Thousands died. Thousands more were paralyzed. Many ended up surviving only in iron lungs, a mach...Show More
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rmmiller364 recommended:Oct 22nd, 2021
I didn’t think I’d learn much from this episode, because I know about the polio vaccine and HeLa cells but wow, I was wrong. The ways in which free polio vaccines were spurned as “socialized medicine” made me so sad.
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epekilis recommended:Sep 24th, 2020
The American Anti-Vaccination League was founded in 1908, complete with well formed conspiracy theory. There is nothing new under the sun.
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bas recommended:Jun 19th, 2020
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