As promised, President-Elect Joe Biden announced his 13 member CoVid-19 task force this afternoon. “It doesn’t matter who you voted for, where you stood before Election Day,” Mr. Biden said in short remarks in Delaware after meeting with members of a newly formed Covid-19 advisory board. “It doesn’t matter your party, your point of view. …
Tag: Vaccine
Feb 28 2011
Pique the Geek 20110227: Polio
Anterior poliomyelitis, mainly called polio (the old name was infantile paralysis) was a scourge for centuries, but was not recognized as a specific disease until comparatively recently. This piece is in honor of the huge immunization program that was begun 56 years ago last week in the United States, that fact kindly pointed out by our good friend ek hornbeck at TheStarsHollowGazette.com a couple of days ago.
Most people do not know anyone who was infected with the paralytic form of this disease these days, partly because they either died or got better, but mostly because of the most successful vaccination program against an infectious disease ever attempted. I have first hand experience with two cases, and will turn 54 on this coming Wednesday. Few people younger than about my age will have known anyone who had it.
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