With Covid-19 and everything else that is happening, polio isn’t something most people think about right now. But I do – because I remember when polio was a big deal.
In the early 1950s, 25,000 or more children were getting polio every year. Some years it was more. In 1952, it was 58,000, and in 1953, it was 35,000. But then, in the spring of 1955, it was announced the Salk vaccine worked! I don’t remember much about it, I was only six at the time, but I remember getting a shot early in the process. Maybe it was because of what was happening in Joliet, where I lived. I don’t know. But what I do remember is getting that shot and how happy my mother and dad were when I got it.
And that’s why I am getting the Covid-19 vaccine.
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