Lots of interesting news today

[Shreddinlettuce]

Kindof a testament to why we have vaccines, isn't it?

A testament to the 2nd round of polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salks team, the first round didn’t go so well

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis - PMC

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Shreddinlettuce]

Clif notes:

In the end, at least 220 000 people were infected with live polio virus in Cutter's vaccine (including 100 000 contacts of immunised children), 70 000 developed muscle weakness, 164 were severely paralysed, and 10 died.

 

[justjeepin86]

Clif notes:

In the end, at least 220 000 people were infected with live polio virus in Cutter's vaccine (including 100 000 contacts of immunised children), 70 000 developed muscle weakness, 164 were severely paralysed, and 10 died.

So, I read 21000 were paralytic cases in 1952. I'm betting it would have been worse than the testing.