… In 1954, Gallup found that more Americans knew about the polio vaccine trials than could give the full name of President and former allied commander Dwight Eisenhower.
Our family eagerly rushed to the doctor’s office to take both versions of the vaccine. Only 53 percent then thought it was likely to be effective, but fear of polio was so deep and widespread that almost everyone who could get vaccinated did.
So it’s difficult for me to understand the anti-vaccine mania now gripping some in the Republican Party. CONT.
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill