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August 10, 1921

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Joel Byers

On August 10, 1921, at the age of 39, future New York Governor and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio. It has become obvious to some people years later that Roosevelt wouldn’t have become paralyzed if… Continue reading →

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April 26, 1954

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Joel Byers

On April 26, 1954, mass trials of Jonas Salk’s anti-polio vaccine began. The first shot was delivered in Fairfax County, Virginia. More than 443,000 children received the shots in the first three months. Nowhere did anyone say, “Only .5% of children with polio suffer from paralysis. The other 99.5% don’t. We don’t need a vaccine. … Continue reading →

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April 12, 1955

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Joel Byers

On April 12, 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk declared the polio vaccine safe and effective. This was before the internet and idiots and fools had to create their own conspiracy theories and fake science. So, everyone made sure that their children would get the vaccine and save their health and lives. After the internet was invented … Continue reading →

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March 12, 1911

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Joel Byers

On March 12, 1911, Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute and his assistant, Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the cause of infantile paralysis. It was caused by a virus, the poliovirus. Dr. Flexner and Dr. Noguchi laid the first block in curing a disease that for centuries had devastated and crushed families. Because of them, … Continue reading →

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February 23, 1954

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Joel Byers

On February 23, 1954, the first mass vaccination of children against polio was started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were no idiot ‘Karens’ screaming and moaning about how vaccines poison children and how the vaccines were causing autism. The parents of Pittsburgh who lined their beloved children up to get the vaccine had seen first hand … Continue reading →

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August 10, 1921

Posted on August 10, 2019 by Joel Byers

On August 10, 1921, future President and World Leader, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio. It would take another 34 years before Dr. Jonas Salk would develop the first polio vaccine. Anti-vaxxers would have us relive the dangerous and chancy medical conditions of the 1920s all over again. A time when polio was a … Continue reading →

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April 12, 1955

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Joel Byers

On April 12, 1955 the University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was “safe, effective, and potent.” Parents all over the United States demanded that the vaccine be administered to their children, since they had grown up with the specter of polio threatening them and their … Continue reading →

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