Posted on 08/27/2021 7:21:43 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
Prior to the 1950s, paralytic polio was a scourge. FDR was crippled from it in while in his 30s, the March of Dimes was started to combat it, and photos of rows and rows of children in iron lungs were common in the media. And from this situation, vaccines were developed to combat the disease.
Polio is caused by one of three types of poliovirus that can cause paralysis and death. In the 1950s, two vaccines were independently developed to combat it, one by Jonas Salk and the other Albert Sabin. [SNIP]
In the early 1950s, Salk was the first to come out with a vaccine. His was designed to treat all three polio viruses at once. His approach seemed basic enough. It was to grow polioviruses in the lab, kill them, and then inject healthy children with the dead viruses.
[SNIP] There, when bacteriologist Dr. Bernice Eddy injected the vaccine into her monkeys, some of them fell down paralyzed. She concluded that the virus was not entirely dead as promised. Instead the virus was active and could reproduce in its host. Eddy sounded the alarm and presented her findings.
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The inoculation of children began in 1955. Within days, some injected children were coming down with polio. Some were even spreading the disease to family members. Subsequent investigations determined that the vaccine had caused 40,000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis, and ten dead. Alton Ochsner, a professor of surgery at Tulane Medical School, was such a strong proponent of proceeding with the inoculation program that he gave vaccine injections to his grandchildren to prove it was safe. Sadly, Ochsner's grandson died from polio a few months later, and his granddaughter contracted polio but survived.
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Wow…. I remember our elementary school class being ushered into the library for one of these vaccines. What were our parents thinking? What didn’t they know?
Got the shingles vaccine early last year because back in the fall of 2019 I contracted shingles. Not wanting to get it again (I wouldn’t wish that crap on anyone) as soon as I was cleared to I got the two shot series.
Before that I did my due diligence and in researching the vaccine discovered it was FDA approved after going though the normal lengthy testing process. It is also 97% effective for at least four years.
I doubt ANY of the covid vaccines can boast being even close to that.
Vaccine Efficacy (VE) starts at 96.2% at the seven day to two month point (based on this disclosure and my understanding of surveillance time, it looks like an average of 48 days),
b) falls to 90.1% at the two to four months point (about 95 days on average), and
c) falls to 83.7% at the final/more than four months after the second dose point (about 125 days on average).
Based on a model I built, VE hits zero around ten months after the last shot.
Ten years before the polio vaccines polio started decreasing rapidly parallel with modern water sanitation, sanitary sewers and the use of chlorine in swimming pools. The decline of polio had nothing to do with vaccines. There is an urban myth however that Salk and Sabin saved the world from polio by vaccines.
My sister got her polio vaccine when she was little. She ended up getting polio in 1957 anyway.I don’t remember it, but my mom said she almost died. A few years later a girl’s brother in my class died from polio. My first experience seeing a child I knew die. 😢
I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade when all of us were given the vaccine in a sugar cube. I don't recall anybody in my school or in my extended family of cousins having any issues or knowing anybody who was affected. It seemed like a miracle at the time.
And that was shortly before thalidomide turned into a problem. Medical science, and science in general, has always had to deal with uncertainties, unknowns, and failure. Look at the relatively small number of failures in the space program from the 1950's and 1960's.
silly
nothing, it will teach us absolutely NOTHING since this is all going according to plan and science has nothing to do with it...
“And that was shortly before thalidomide turned into a problem.”
I watched a 2 hour documentary on this subject. Thalidomide is a magical cure for morning sickness. But when you make it in big batches, some percentage of the molecules get put together the wrong way, and it becomes instant birth defect formula. I think they called the property “handedness,” but my memory is fuzzy. It’s like quantum mechanics level creepy chemistry. Unintended consequences, not knowing what they didn’t know.
Then we all just need boo$ter $hots weekly. It’s the only way to flatten the curve.
“Ten years before the polio vaccines polio started decreasing rapidly ...”
The number of polio cases peaked in 1952, three (not ten) years) before the Salk vaccine was widely administered, with
57,628 reported cases and 3,145 deaths.
Wrong.
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