My mom grew up in Pittsburgh and thus was among the first schoolchildren to receive the polio vaccine (Salk was at Carnegie-Melon). She had relatives in South Carolina who drove through the night with cousins and second cousins to get in line with her at her elementary school.
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The New York Times
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
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