Vaccines work: We’ve been here before

Frightened parents kept their children isolated. Pools and schools were closed. Hospitals were overwhelmed. Frightened, paralyzed children were in hospitals hours from their homes, cared for by masked, protected strangers. Quarantine signs were on front doors.

There was no vaccine, no cure. Fear reigned. The children and young adults who were affected by the paralyzing polio virus were ostracized in their community long after the virus left their bodies.

Then, a miracle happened. The Salk Vaccine.

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