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Shäron Moalem MD, PhD
sharonmoalem
Viruses love to mutate. And some viruses mutate more than others. The biggest challenge for our immune system and any vaccination strategy that uses it, are viral mutations.So why did
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The Celtic Clan
Correction2016
1962 line for a polio vaccine: Muscle weakness & muscle paralysis were formerly diagnosed as paralytic poliomyelitis, or “polio”, purportedly a “viral infection” that mainly affects children (the scientific evidence
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Lonnie G. Bunch III
SmithsonianSec
On display steps from my desk at the Smithsonian Castle is a vial from the 1954 trial of the polio vaccine. From the collection of our @amhistorymuseum, the story of
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Hilda Bastian, PhD
hildabast
#tbt This is the dedication, with Eleanor Roosevelt, for the Polio Hall of Fame, honoring 17 scientists critical to polio research & the vaccine. The only woman scientist is in
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Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her/Hers)
ErinSandersNP
Why is #asymptomatic spread important? Well today I was thinking about #polio virus. It was very #contagious, but 95% of people had no symptoms but were still infectious. About 4-5%
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Sylvester Equation
neoliberal_dad
It’s a good thing we eliminated polio in the 1950s because there’s no way in hell we could eliminate it under the 21st century health economics conventional wisdom Imagine Ezra
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Hector Drummond, Stay Home. Die Slowly Inside.
hector_drummond
The UK govt has only three strategies with Covid. Herd immunity/live with it, lockdown for total elimination, or lockdown until a vaccine is found.1/9 But the last is just suicidal
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Entropy 💵 📈
digispikex
Polio was the scourge of the beginning of the 20th century. The ones it didn't kill overnight, it often left crippled. The disease mostly attacked young children and had no
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local witch frand
kingdomofwench
Okay so let's talk about a vaccine question I have been seeing a lot!"Can you get COVID from the vaccine?" Or relatedly, "Can you spread COVID from the vaccine?" The
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Rishi Suri
rishi_suri
Let me tell you why spreading unnecessary doubts about #vaccination is dangerous. I was very closely involved in fighting this very rumour mongering during the polio vaccination drive in #India
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Sam
Smamfa75
What really gets on my tits, are all these people who are being so negative about this Pfizer Covid vaccine. The majority of us had vaccines for tetanus, polio, measles,
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Amy McGrath
AmyMcGrathKY
1/4 My mother was one of the first to get the polio vaccine. Dr. Salk tested it on her at the University of Pittsburgh since she had already been afflicted
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Liz (LT Ward) is doing writerly things
Ltward2
What if we talked about COVID like it was polio?Most of us think of polio and for Americans, our go-to is FDR, a president who hid his polio complications throughout
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Timothy Stewart-Winter
timothysw
With the polio vaccine, the high-priority group was children. It began with 7 and 8 year olds in late spring 1955. Polio was seasonal, peaking in summer, and when vaccination
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Tim Skellett
Gurdur
Drama-queening is most definitely NOT an answer. @AlexBerenson is a liar, who weirdly has taken it upon himself to become an apologist for a virus. Imagine saying this for polio,
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Ma Magdalena Ziegler
emeziegler
Nobody remembers on whose watch Dr. Jonas Salk developed the Polio vaccine. We just remember (and we must) that this #vaccine brought down a world-spread, cruel disease.Nobody remembers Franklin D.
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