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ZME Science
In 1954, the New York City Department of Health launched a massive publicity campaign to promote vaccination against polio. Columnist and media bigwig Walter Winchell threw cold water on the effort, saying the vaccine, developed from an inactivated virus by Jonas Salk, “may be a killer.”Sounds familiar? Well, Elvis himself helped by setting an example and getting vaccinated live, during a 1956 airing of The Ed Sullivan Show.
Nearly 200 million cases of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, adenovirus, rabies and hepatitis A -- and approximately 450,000 deaths from these diseases -- were prevented in the U.S. alone between 1963 and 2015 by vaccination.
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I wonder how that would have gone if Elvis had had a sudden negative reaction.
The Covid vaccine has adverse reactions in enough study participants to be worth a discussion of how to talk to patients about adverse reactions.
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