How The Polio Vaccine Destroyed Trust In Healthcare

[@mulderyes]

My grandpa was one of the first rounds to receive a polio vaccine. He says he remembers his friends and classmates devoloping the disease and passing away. Americans seem to forget what life used to be like before vaccines

[@glai5752]

I’m afraid they didn’t forget. Many of them never knew the history in the first place and remained ignorant and misinformed. What makes it worse is how much misinformation are out there on the web and people choose to listen to the bad

[@sayorancode]

@@glai5752 US history is only taught 1 year in high school (excluding world history) at least where i am in california. english is taught 4 years, even physED is taught 2 years.

[@Lamb666]

@@sayorancodethat’s misleading as a lot of this is covered in science courses. I do love that my teachers would dunk on the idiotic steady state theory that evangelicals push to force upon others.

[@rickwrites2612]

​​@@Lamb666oh dear I've never heard of that but am afraid to even look it up. Ok I'm a Xennial and I don't recall learning it from school but from osmosis ie family talking. And I was raised by a single mom w 8th grade education and my grandma finished high school. But they SAW polio and the importance of vaccines firsthand and communicated it to us. So where did this stop? I know theres always been some anti-vaxx or ignorant but it's gone way up. So, is it just Gen X has dropped the ball at passing this info on within families? Or us it just the antivaxx weirdos can affect so much more ppl now since mass media has become democratize without media literacy and critical thinking being democratized.

[@byuftbl]

I remember life just before the Covid vaccine came out. My grandpa died because the vaccine wasn’t available yet. Unless people had a family member die from it, they don’t realize this was affecting people you know, they weren’t just a statistic you read about.

[@cuttingedgeinnovationstati5208]

My grandfather worked with Salk in his lab as a grad student. I'm very privileged to have pictures of the two of them together and to have heard the stories.

[@keithsvenson568]

well now i'm curious for pics.

[@Mr.eat_dem_eggs]

Umm hmmm...

[@Wildiscool]

Im skeptical but im listening

[@feliciagaffney1998]

That's really cool!

[@Tuesday-19887]

Ok...

[@smith2354]

“Could you patent the sun?” Brings me to tears. I wish heroes like Salk existed today in the realm of Medicine.

[@coweatsman]

Nationalise big pharma. Compassion is a better motivator than profit.

[@lisafish1449]

The people who discovered insulin sold their patent for $1

[@misspat7555]

The creators of injectable insulin sold the patent for one dollar. They didn’t feel they should make a profit from something so essential. Yeah, morality like that has existed stage right… 😔

[@alveolate]

@@lisafish1449 tell that to Eli lilly

[@methanial73]

They do, but you just don't hear about them.

[@AussieERS]

As a young child, my uncle contracted polio and was hospitalised for 5 years. When he finally was able to come home my Mum and his other siblings met him for the first time. He had crutches and calipers for years and did not know his family. He only knew the nurses at his hospital but even then didn't form secure attachments. It's not just the physical impacts from polio but also the psychological - for the patient and their families

[@davef.2329]

"Who owns the patent?" "The people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?" Indeed. A departure from the medical INDUSTRY and a return to the PRACTICE of medicine for the benefit of the people is sorely needed. Dr. Salk was truly a Mensch.

[@shivertheiguana]

Makes me curious, what would happen if you unironically tried to patent the sun?

[@queenannsrevenge100]

Open Source before it had a name for it

[@anton33779]

He was a human? I think you meant hunane

[@Cdaragorn]

Patents are not unique to the medical industry, and they create problems almost everywhere they're used.

[@BlinkinFirefly]

I completely agree.

[@cindystrachan8566]

I’m old enough to remember going to school with kids permanently disabled by polio. I also remember going to school with my Mom to stand in line for vaccines, including polio. The numbers of cases before and after the vaccine is so exciting by showing vaccines work. Thanks for sharing this info.

[@hummuslord6521]

Thank you for sharing this, God bless you and your family 🙏🏽

[@Marta1Buck]

I have one neighbor with it, he's now almost 40. He visually doesn't have calf muscles on both legs

[@janemiettinen5176]

My grandpa’s brother had it, he walked with crutches, just one when he felt better. Polio was called child paralysis in my language, it took me years to understand what he actually had! I remember my vaccination, it felt so odd to get sugar cube from our school nurse :)

[@AnnikaK87]

@@Marta1Buckhow did he get polio? 40 is young!

[@CherylKasson]

I was in the first generation to receive the Slak vaccine. I remember the photos of people in iron lungs when I was a child.

[@Venkat876]

I am from INDIA and my country had a lot of problems with polio and I still remember when i got my polio drops. Hearing this story made me realize how hard doctors and researchers work not just to develope cure but also for it to reach people.

[@tab8294]

Respect your docs indians , I have seen you people beat your docs which is shameful

[@star5384]

Wydm your English is better than 99 percent of Americans

[@monikagombkotoova2074]

You have a typo in your comment. It is the last line.

[@glai5752]

Your English is perfect sweetie, so is what you’re trying to say. People need to hear this. Thank you Dr. Mike!

[@thomasgcampbell]

Your English is better than my Hindi. Thanks for sharing!

[@PepperPeaches-n3h]

I'm a microbiologist and worked with polio many years ago. This was BEAUTIFULLY DONE. Thank you for an accurate, thorough job covering this victory/tragedy. Salk was truly a legend.

[@-Ghostess]

My great great grandparents walked 20 miles along the railroads in eastern Kentucky with their children from their farm to the city to get their children the polio vaccine. My great grandfather said that his mother wept tears of joy the walk home because her children were safe.

[@rooroob]

Wow!! What an amazing story

[@markdarcy5256]

And now we have anti vaccine 💉 I wish they saw third world countries ( where I am from) where parents walk barefoot for miles just to get thr polio vaccine.

[@murphyshsu]

To watch healthy children become cripples- is one of the worst things that can happen in a persons life.

[@codetech5598]

They were already safe because they were healthy enough to walk 20 miles.

[@-Ghostess]

did you hurt youself in that stretch?

[@mattsena7708]

Frederick Banting sold the patent for insulin for $1 so it could be accessible to everyone. I grew up in the town he was from in Canada, also went to the high school named after him. Bless the scientists and doctors working for the greater good

[@MonkeyJedi99]

And now, getting the price DOWN to $35 is an achievement...

[@pjaypender1009]

So then why does my insulin cost so much?

[@Azurval]

@@pjaypender1009 if you're in US it's because of greedy companies I.E. the big pharma and health insurances

[@bennieviljoen291]

@@pjaypender1009 Corporate greed...

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@pjaypender1009 The uni who bought Banting's patent resold it to Eli Lily. And you can guess what happens next.

[@dshawler]

I worked in biomedical research for my career. At my first professional job, I answered the phone in the lab one day. The man on the other end asked to speak to my boss. I said, "I'm sorry, he's not here right now. May I take a message?" He said, "please ask him to call Jonas Salk. That's spelled S.A.L.K." Firstly, I couldn't believe I was actually speaking to Jonas Salk. Secondly, I couldn't believe he was so humble that he thought he needed to spell his name.

[@maryeckel9682]

Wow! I have shivers.

[@Elaan021]

As someone with an easy to mishear and thus misspell, giving the spelling becomes almost part of your name when you give it. "My name is First Last, that's L. A. S. T." is automatic for me. That said, there's definitely humility in doing that when speaking in a context where it's reasonable to assume people would recognize your name.

[@mushroommagic144]

What did you say? Were you like: "yes I know who you are, and I'm a fan of your work"

[@louroc425]

That’s science people. Think the bridge on the enterprise. Well, everyone besides worf and riker.

[@jacqueslefave4296]

It's like if the President of the United States or the King of England ordered flowers sent by a local store. They would laugh, make a snide remark, and hang up.

[@sucramuk]

My grandfather was a surgeon. He was working in the UK, but when he saw the impact of polio in his country he returned to start their first orthopedic clinic, mainly treating children with polio. He always saw his work as a calling, worked day and night to help people and for years didn't even charge people.

saving million lives and not wanting any money for it.. wow. what a hero. we need more people like him.

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

That would be socialism and evil people don´t like socialism.

[@asianforce]

We do and one of them is Dr. Fauci. A hero of our time demonized for his sacrifice. Those in the medical field who gave a damn about truly saving lives would know him. People threaten him and his family due to politics. While he worked tirelessly to save as many lives as possible during multiple epidemics to pandemics.

[@joshuahudson2170]

Hero that is; I would choose rather to save millions of people and make a million dollars in the process.

[@taiwanjohn]

If only modern pharmaceutical companies were so civic minded and altruistic... they might garner a bit more public trust and respect. By the way, here is some suggested reading on this topic: 1. _"The Truth About the Drug Companies; How they deceive us, and what to do about it"_ by Dr. Marcia Angell, 2004. (Note: Angell was previously the Editor In Chief of the NEJM.) 2. _"Bad Pharma; How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients"_ by Dr. Ben Goldacre, 2013. 3. _"Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime; How big pharma has corrupted healthcare"_ by Peter C. Gotzsche, 2017. (Includes foreword by Richard Smith, former Editor In Chief of the BMJ.)

[@heyitsmae3]

​That would make it expensive for ordinary people hence you would not be able to save millions but only few that could afford it. ​@@joshuahudson2170

[@howardj602]

I recently found out that my brother and I were among the Polio Pioneers. We both got the shot at the Free Health Care center in Bridgeport Ct. that was started by Socialist mayor Jasper McLevy who was mayor from 1933 to 1957. My brother, contacted what was considered a mild case of polio that kept him hospitalized for 6 months, and he went to rehab for 5 years. His left leg was affected, and he learned to walk again first with braces, and then a cane, and in later life with a limp. I didn't get it but was quarantined for 2 week with the warning that if I left my home I would be put in a locked facility. You left out an important part of the March of Dimes. It also paid a significant amount toward the care of patients, and our family never received a bill. HIs care over 6 years was entirely paid for by the March of Dimes.

[@fmoreira2727]

I hope you and your brother are doing well! Your experience helped saved millions.

[@hellybelle5]

Did you say you were both vaccinated, but he was affected by the illness for six months, and then needed extensive rehab?

[@soupyweb]

that’s amazing! i can’t believe USA hasn’t done something like that again considering it saved so many lives

[@jaelwyn]

​@hellybelle5 Check the headlines of the newspapers: they talk about "90% effective". Even when not fully effective, many (most?) vaccines still reduce the severity of the disease because the body is already primed to fight the disease so it "spins up" immune response faster.

[@jamesodell3064]

I remember being in a school gym with many others getting the vaccine in the 1950s.

[@midoriya-shonen]

Feature this story in EVERY modern history textbook. We need to remember how massive of a victory this was, and be grateful for it.

[@michelleelmore3974]

I agree but Texas probably won’t allow it “allegedly”

[@magoo9279]

Woke media. 😂

[@finnmcool2]

They don't teach this in school any more?

[@balesshippolova]

This is woke?​@@magoo9279

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Can anyone explain to me why Vaccine Companies have legal Protection from being sued for any side effects from their products.

[@f.m.7698]

My children watch your videos and I want to thank you for being one of the very few voices of actual science and rational thinking out there! Keep up the great work!

[@hippiebits2071]

Thank you for being a parent who actually cares who and what their children are watching!

[@src4409]

You are so uninformed. I disagree with modern vaccines. I've seen them hurt people I love. But I'm here looking at both sides. So done research on BOTH sides.

[@f.m.7698]

@@src4409 There aren't two sides. There's a trail of evidence that goes in only one direction. If your research led you to the conclusion that vaccines should be avoided, you researched poorly.

[@Hiker_who_Sews]

I had polio in 1954, and today have the usual "post polio syndrome" aches and pains. Reminds me everyday to be thankful for vaccines.

[@SassyGirl822006]

My husband's aunt was one of the last to get polio here in Australia. She's facing post polio syndrome now. It's so hard to watch, she'd been permanently effected anyways, but she's lost so much more. I'm so glad my children will never face it.

[@manuelabenoit1912]

And here we are, a different virus and millions of anti-vaxxers. I am thankful for vaccines.

[@WhichDoctor1]

im here living with postcovid. Unable to leave the house most days atm. Unable to cook myself meals a lot of nights despite not doing anything all day. Not even able to play video games to entertain myself because i find them too exhausting. Before covid i was cycling 20 mins to work and back and also travelling on the train most weeks to visit my long distance partner. And i got covid four and a half years ago. I wish i could have avoided covid till the vaccines were available. Maybe id still be working and still have a life

[@chriscohlmeyer4735]

Yes, post polio syndrome is a pain to deal with. During the early part of the AIDS epidemic I had a knee operation where the doctor used latex gloves, shortly after I lost sensation in some of the muscles in that leg. It was a year later that they figured out that latex, knee operations and polio don't mix. Polio at age three, Salk vaccine at age five, Sabin vaccine at age six - mother neglected to inform our family doctor that I had polio (diagnosed out of state), I didn't develop the typical indent in my arm so our doctor thought the Salk vaccine hadn't worked on me - doctor was a sceptic of the vaccine as was the head of the federal health department so the US delayed a year in starting the vaccine roll out.

[@ilse4321]

​@@WhichDoctor1 I got Long Covid twice. The first time before vaccines were available, and the second time with my third infection where I had my vaccines. I'm about as ill as you describe. I'm so sorry you are in this as well

[@lindagarner1320]

My maternal grandmother spent a year in an iron lung after getting polio. My late Mom was 12 when her mom died. I don't think she ever forgot the sound of the iron lung. I'm grateful that I don't have to worry about my grandchildren getting polio.

[@bunnybgood411]

Just wait till RFK Jr. gets to head Health and Human Services.

[@haplessasshole9615]

@@bunnybgood411 Oh, I know. It's gonna be awful. Gwyneth Paltrow is probably going to be one of his advisors.

[@OceanFrontVilla3]

RFK JR wants safer vaccines and I agree, don't you? My eldest grandson is vaccine injured.

[@TeaandTacos77]

@@OceanFrontVilla3 The polio vaccine has been used safely since 1953. There is more post-marketing safety data on this vaccine than almost any other. RFK does NOT want safer vaccines. He wants to impose his belief system on the entire populace. If he is unwilling to accept the overwhelming safety data for the polio vaccine, there will never be enough evidence to satisfy him. He is a narcissist who mistakes his strongly held preferences for truth and now he will be allowed to turn the US healthcare system into his belief system vs. an evidence-based system. It is a sad development for all of us. I am sorry about your grandson, but it is misinformation to suggest he will make vaccines safer.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

@@OceanFrontVilla3 as long as he’s surrounded by actual scientists that his inquiries proceeded slowly and regularly…. I mean, my one concern is the number of vaccines that are given to infants and young children and the frequency and scheduling of those vaccines when their immune systems are not even entirely or fully developed. Should we be concerned about thimerisol (Thiomersal)? Sure.

[@MaternalUnit]

I had the privilege to meet Dr. Salk at a medical conference two weeks to the day before he died. He gave the keynote address that day and seemed in fine health. At the time, he was leading a group working on a vaccine for HIV.

[@JimmyLeeJr]

Got em.

[@buffyk-952]

Sadly, the deck was stacked against him. HIV VIRUS WAS DEVELOPED IN A LAB, TO BE USED AS A BIOLOGIC WEAPON. The guinea pigs, the HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY, and UNSUSPECTING AFRICAN FAMILIES, BABIES, CHILDREN, ADULTS, because THEY WERE EXPENDABLE, according to WHITE FACTORS who designed this VIRUS they KNEW THEY HAD NO KNOWN CURE FOR.

[@stananderson4524]

Thanks Dr Mike. This was one of the most interesting things I have seen on KZbin. My Dad always said. "Todays sports stars and celebrities are not heros. Jonas Salk is what a true hero is."

[@user-hl8tq8uw2b]

I met Dr. Salk as a 9-year-old as he was treating my great uncle after my uncle had his left lung removed due to cancer. I could tell that Dr Salk was someone very special watching my parents talk to him.

[@rickwrites2612]

Oh wow that is so cool. I didn't know they could remove a lung then.

[@pynetrees3]

He was a virologist, virologists don’t perform surgery…

[@user-hl8tq8uw2b]

@@rickwrites2612 His older brother had a lung removed a few years earlier. Both heavy smokers.

[@user-hl8tq8uw2b]

@@pynetrees3 Correct, Dr Salk was treating him after he had the surgery.

[@nancyroberts8749]

I never met him, but as someone with an immune deficiency, his vaccine saved me from polio in the fifties!

[@AmethystEyes]

I will always remember the quote from Jonas Salk when the reporter asked him who the vaccine patent belongs to, and Jonas said “well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Can you patent the sun?“, an amazing man. Such a mensch! I remember reading that before he died he was working on a vaccine for HIV/AIDS.

[@sarah2.017]

And we still don't have one, and probably won't with current technology because the HIV virus is so complex.

[@SeaBlueJay]

​@@sarah2.017 at least we have medication that makes the symptoms better and lessens its strength to spread. That plus good sex education. One day we'll have a vaccine, but it's definitely going to take a while. 😔

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@sarah2.017 There are progess being made though. You just haven't heard of multiple clinical trials being conducted right now.

[@roan9914]

HIV nowadays we thankfully do have drugs that can make it undetectable and people who are infected can live normal lives

[@dollzo]

​@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989*is not are

[@ericb.4313]

I remember making a sarcastic comment when my grandma called the microwave "The best invention" by responding "I think it's the polio vaccine, but to each their own." My grandma then told me "Oh, I actually got to meet Dr. Salk. He was a nice man."

[@brickwall7723]

Your grandmother has an interesting history. The elderly are very interesting people if we only listen to them.

[@greenmachine5600]

Epic

[@andreahartford8450]

After RFK Jr suggested they get rid of the polo vaccine, I have to say Thank you for this well detailed account of the whole story.

[@epicgamer7697]

Um actually 🤓

[@disqusrubbish5467]

Maybe. Anesthesia might come in first... ;)

[@annaczgli2983]

Dr. Salk is as close to a real-life saint that we'll get. Truly a great man.

[@haydencapps]

Not to argue the point exactly, but all saints are real life saints lol. They aren't marvel super heroes or mythical characters

[@W4ldgeist]

The weirdest part of patents is: Almost all fundamental research in the fields of almost all sciences is done on government money. So WHY is it allowed to patent stuff, that was already paid for by the public? That is absolutely ludicrous.

[@Lutherson1962]

The government is of the People, by the People, & for the People.... Those who own the government, own those patents also. Really not so weird 🤷‍♂️

[@wethrandirithildor7095]

Patents are the result of the creative development and interpretation of experimentation and are NOT "fundamental" research. InGaAs multibandgap stacked solar cells are an excellent example. As is the PECVD growth of thin film diamond.

[@jacqueslefave4296]

At the very least, the government should own a significant share of the patent, and could use that share to reduce prices to the public. It is one of the greatest forms of "Chroney Capitalism" in the history of the world.

[@88michaelandersen]

The problem is, if we require lots of expensive testing to make new medicines, then people are only going to research making new medicines if there is a chance to make back the money needed to do testing. Once a new medicine is approved, anyone with enough chemists can figure out how to make it and sell it without having to pay for all the tests. So we create patents to protect the creators of a medicine from having their work undercut. This means that companies will be created to buy and hold patents. And these companies will spend their money trying to make patents last longer and make testing more expensive. It's called "economic rent seeking." Basically, whenever the government creates a licensing process, there are going to be people who make money off of how difficult it is to get that license, and they'll push to make that license harder to get.

[@Furiends]

Many municipalities will pay for Walmart to build there and give them tax breaks. Most research today is privately funded but we are also in a crisis with junk science. Geee I wonder if that's a coincidence?

[@EvanEdwards]

Donna Salk, his wife (who was fairly well cartoonized), was also a active and very successful fair housing advocate who fought for early civil rights and equal access to housing. She was not a shrinking figure who would have just allowed her husband to experiment on her, and she was likely part of several of the decisions. They were divorced in 1968, well after the bulk of her husband's pioneering work with polio. Today the Rotary Club has worked on the PolioPlus project since 1985 as a global effort to wipe out polio in the same way smallpox was. Also getting several other vaccines to remote areas around the world.

[@jakubbucek9714]

Than Salk married Françoise Gilot, which was ex Picasso and she has 2 children with Picasso. Rest in peace to everyone mentioned.

[@pamelamays4186]

The song A Spoonful Of Sugar was inspiring by the manner the Polio vaccine was administered to children in some schools. A drop of it was placed on a sugar cube which given to the children to consume.

[@novampires223]

I remember those! Had forgotten..

[@jimmiemurvin1871]

That's how I got mine. I was ten or eleven years old.

[@luchts4547]

I wonder if there was any difference in efficacy between injection or ingestion of the vaccine.

[@joanhoffman3702]

I remember the sugar cubes. The drops were purple.

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

Injection works much faster because it is directly​ sent to the blood vessels @@luchts4547 While the sugar cube method need to time to digest, around 2-6 hours before it's fully digested

[@Clouseau63]

This was really well done and I learned a lot. I have to confess it was the heading that pulled me in. I was expecting to be annoyed, but ended up thinking it was terrific!

[@mauricepowers8079]

I got the Sugar Cube Vaccine. I am 73 and still remember the March of Dimes campaign. I filled up a couple of the Donation Cards by going door to door with my mother back in the 50's.

[@harrietharlow9929]

So did I.

[@ypw510]

I'm from an era where I received both the Salk and Sabin vaccines. When the Sabin vaccine was given in bulk, they'd use droppers and either drop it directly into the mouth or onto a sugar cube to be consumed. When I received it, it was a sweetened liquid in a sealed, single-use plastic dispenser. The top was just twisted off and the contents squeezed into my mouth. I remember it was cold from a refrigerator. Besides possibly still active virus, the Sabin vaccine does have the occasional issue with reassembling into a live virus. And usually not in the person receiving the virus but found in human waste. This is a far greater issue in countries with poor sanitation. Even then, a lot of poor countries still use that vaccine because the doses are cheaper and easier to administer than hypodermic needles required for the Salk vaccine.

[@Trebor74]

They don't give it on sugar anymore,as it's bad for you 🤷

[@mauricepowers8079]

@Trebor74 they do in Africa as its cheaper.

[@ellenryan127]

Me too!! I'm 68.

[@elisabetk2595]

I'm just old enough to have had classmates with older siblings who were in braces or wheelchairs due to polio. My parents literally cried with joy when their children were vaccinated. Thank you for this timely video.

[@bladesdna]

Please keep sharing your story with anyone you can. People have no idea how terrifying the pre-polio vax world was and take our modern polio free world for granted. We have no idea how good we have it now. I'd also urge you to find a local historian and get your story on record.

[@gdiup9241]

I knew someone that got polio overseas and was adopted by an American family. I was shocked to see someone my age with polio. She was a sweet friend. She passed in late 40s.

[@Shannon-vv6rr]

Yes I heard that here in the UK, when polio vaccines were given out, children were overjoyed and parents were sobbing and celebrating. My grandma told me

[@jamesbosworth4191]

Same here, some classmates as well.

[@elonk4life]

@@Shannon-vv6rrmy grandma told me too! Said when a vaccine dropped there was so much hype. Everyone was just psyched that their kids weren’t going to die. Yeah she was ‘disappointed’ (to put it politely) about the people these days deciding not to vaccinate their kids.

[@Friesian374]

I have polio. I'm 25 and I was born in China where I did not receive the vaccine. It's a rough life and I wouldn't wish it on anyone else

[@monokumasussy9685]

I’m so sorry.

[@x51DonGoddard]

That's brutal and I hope you see every day as another chance to live. My father had polio for 50 years and he became a medical doctor and child psychiatrist. He inspired many to live a fruitful life while struggling with polio, wheelchair and post polio syndrome. He managed it better than anyone I know. Are there any cures or remedies for you? Are you being cared for?

[@kimt1054]

😢💔🙏

[@Ai-yahUdingus]

But the polio vaccine is part of China's list of childhood vaccines??? I was born 2000 and got mine along with tuberculosis (and a scar to go with it). Did your parents never take you to a doctor? Childhood vaccines are free of charge.

[@MissInformer]

​@@Ai-yahUdingus Just speculating and giving a potential answer, but maybe they live in a rural area? I don't know if you do as well, and I live in a different country, but even in my country where that vaccine is mandatory by government law, there are rural communities as well as just some stubborn people who refuse to have their kids vaccinated, and being out in the rural areas makes it less likely for the lack of a vaccine the kid needs being noticed by professionals.

[@karifredrikson-lr1mm]

I’m an actual 75year old who went through that time! I stood in line outside of my school, in Park Forest,Illinois. My Parents were very happy & relieved that I wouldn’t get Polio.or my little Brother! It was a privilege to be one of the first to get the immunization! But I did get sick with mumps, measles chicken pox.

[@Mat1311]

My grandfather contracted polio as a child and spent his life dealing with the aftermath with virtually no muscle left in his legs and a terribly deformed spine. He refused to let it impact his life, raised a family and ran a successful garage and he spent his spare time raising money for charities that helped eradicate polio around the world. Thank God for Dr Salk.

[@vanessacantos836]

Thank God for your grandfather as well.

[@meleascott6490]

My aunt also suffered the same. She married, had a healthy son, and her and my uncle cared for other's their whole lives. They were always happy.

[@victoriapatterson2609]

Look into the effects of DDT on gut permeability and how that affected the part of the spine that is associated with leg paralysis in young children... it's interesting, to say the least.

[@kae2275]

same here! but my great grandfather. his name was nelson. he was such a joy to us little ones. we only saw the electric wheelchair he was bound to as an opportunity for a fun ride back then! he rode the damn thing around that small town so much the sheriff made him put an orange flag on it 😭🤣

[@kae2275]

@@victoriapatterson2609what does ddt have to do with this conversation?

[@cathywithac]

My mom grew up in Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario. My mom remembers multiple covid-like quarantines every few years because of polio. Quarantines were not new to her and she struggled to understand during covid why everyone refused to understand that quarantine blocks the spread of disease. My mom remembers summers not being able to play with any of her friends and not being allowed out of their fenced in backyard. My mom remembers public health posting 'quarantine' notices on the front doors of families with polio warning everyone to keep away. My mom remembers kids not coming back to school after each polio epidemic. My mom remembers her school friends that survived the initial polio illness crippled and dying young from the ongoing health complications. One that she knows of lived in an iron lung for a few years. Also, for her, it was common enough for school friends to develop tb, measles, mumps, chicken pox and die of those diseases. It was their 'normal'. They lived it. My parents made sure that their kids were first in line when the polio vaccine came out and other vaccines too. Why? Because they loved us. BTW, we received both vaccines. Thank you Dr Jonas Salk, Dr Albert B. Sabin and their teams.

[@byuftbl]

People died from chicken pox?? I’ve never heard of people dying from that even when we didn’t have the chicken pox vaccine. I didn’t think it was ever deadly?

[@appaloosa42]

What was not understood is that quarantines were of infected individuals and their families. The ‘pandemic’ quarantined EVERYBODY! backwards!

[@aellalee4767]

My mom grew up in Saskatchewan. She also dealt with similar things. Although I don't know that they had quarantines since everyone was so spread out anyway. I got all my vaccines growing up except for one expensive one (HPV, that I got through university later). Now all of a sudden because of my auntie going on and on to my mom that she's going to d*e because she took the vaccine and my uncle got cancer recently (not respiratory or circulatory related) my mom won't get newer vaccines. She'll do the tetanus one I think though. It's like she forgot how it was when she was growing up.

[@BobSmith-fu1nn]

Also in Toronto, I was born in the mid 1950's but I had on older brother who was so excited to get the Salk vaccine because it meant that he could play with his friends during the summer holidays, summer being polio peak season here, and finally he got to go to the CNE

[@Ash.Toronto]

@@cathywithac my mom also grew up in toronto my mom also remembers everything ok?

[@pooryorick831]

I met Jonas Salk when I was a kid. He seemed like a really nice guy. That's about all I remember. My dad worked at the Salk Institute in the early 1970s as a research scientist.

[@VAbyss1977]

I've actually written many essays on Jonas Salk and his research so you can imagine my joy when I saw this video pop up on my fyp. Salk is defo one of America's more overlooked heroes and I'm very happy that more people are learning about him and his work. He's a super interesting person with an incredible legacy that should be kept alive

[@drjekyllmshyde]

As an epidemiologist THANK YOU for sharing Dr. Salk’s story ❤

[@k.m.7631]

Salk: “Could you patent the sun?” Wall Street: “Don’t mind if I do”

[@DeusEx_Machina]

Elon: "Why didn't I think of that?!"

[@benebluesman]

Scientists and engineers working on fusion: "um..."

[@PhoenixAngel429]

Don't give them ideas

[@justinhackstadt6677]

70 years later society forgot all this history and misinformation blossomed leading people away from vaccines. We need more of these messages for remembrance Dr. Mike. Thank you. 🥰

[@kevinh5983]

Skepticism and challenging of norms is what got us this vaccine. Without it you would be using worms and ox blood today. So be careful wishing for people to blindly trust "experts". Instead we need to promote truth and wisdom and not discourage those who are skeptical.

[@kaylapounds1359]

We live in a time where searching for information is literally at our fingertips, but some people choose to just listen to what others tell them, even if they aren't remotely qualified to give advice on that topic.

[@qwertyqwertyqwerty4324]

@@kaylapounds1359after doing my own research, I won’t trust vaccines ever again. The pandemic opened my eyes. I had a rough idea before but now I know

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Governments literally lied to people and took away constitutional rights.

[@tuskel]

The beautiful thing about the internet is that it has given everyone a voice. The terrible thing about the internet is that it has given everyone a voice. There is additional problem, legitimate scientific and educational sources very often put their information behind a paywall, whereas people peddling woo-woo spread it for free.

[@lindawalker8239]

I'm 73, and from Pittsburgh. I received the vaccine, from my Dad, who was a pharmacist, graduated from Pitt, knew Salk, and volunteered his weekends at clinics. We stood in a very long line, at the end of which was my Dad, who I had not seen much of in weeks. At the time, I was a frail child, who had a fear of needles, and was terrified. He lifted me onto his lap, and Mom held my hand. He whispered sorry as he injected me. It wasn't just Salk, but he inspired people to volunteer their time for the public good. I was reminded of all of this during Covid, when the clinics were set up, and saw the number of health professionals giving their time to serve.

[@kevrasx]

I read a book about this for a research paper, and finished the book because it was so good. The Cutter incident was traced to a skilled tradesman retiring. The vaccine solution was filtered through a sintered glass filter during manufacture. These filters were essentially handmade in house. When the guy with all the experience retired, others following the same methods produced inferior filters. It has a somewhat timely tie in with today's difficulty of onshoring high tech and manufacturing in general. All the. Money in the world won't solve the problem of nobody with the experience.

[@GambitsEnd]

Do you remember the name of the book?

[@a.persson5728]

I'd also like to know the name of the book.

[@julesmilovich]

Such a timely video. Please continue to tell more stories about the history of vaccines, vaccine skepticism, and the lessons we can learn.

[@Delekhan]

Excellent video! People have forgotten the fear of illness that used to permeate life. My parents and grandparents have told me stories. Thanks for the great video Dr. Mike and to your whole team for everything!

[@meeeka]

The irony is that AFTER Covid, more folks should remember the old fears of disease. Ironically, my daughter's generation all have myriad health anxieties, memories from Covid. But many of her friends are anti-vaxxers, even tho they were all vaxxed, had fluoride in their water, and so, had really healthy young lives.

[@TeasLouise]

I like old graveyard art and can always tell when there has been some sort of outbreak; polio, cholera, measles, diptheria, etc, by clusters of graves with the same year. I often check history and invariably it's from an outbreak of something we now have vaccines against.

[@owensomers8572]

@@meeeka The tragedy is the children who are already beginning to suffer needlessly from diseases that I never suffered from, being born in 1967. My father was a staunch advocate for vaccinations. His older brother died from encephalitis while ill with mumps at 5 years old, which devastated his parents. This was well before the MMR vaccine was developed.

[@blackbette07]

​@@meeeka Every communicable disease is not polio. I have no problem with vaccination but, it's not the end all either. The flu vax is at best 50/50. Plus people should be suspicious when a vaccine that normally takes 10 years to go through the regulatory hoops comes in less than a year. A person has the right not to be a lab mouse. Didn't the Nuremberg Codes address that?

[@turbokid8719]

@@blackbette07don’t worry I wouldn’t trust this guy as a doctor

[@Bliving457]

My father was born in 1953. Polio left him paralyzed from the waist down. It's heart breaking. He had over a dozen spinal surgeries and had moments when he could use crutches and braces but will be in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. Thank God for a vaccine that works

[@darkrebel123]

What a great video! I did my PhD dissertation on poliovirus replication, and I didn't know nearly this much detail about the history of the vaccines. I learned a lot in this video!

[@fearxhusky114]

The history of medicine is very fascinating to me, i hope to see more content like this in the future!

[@michy5937]

Me toooo!

[@tanyah6184]

Me too! Have you seen the show the Knick?

[@BrigidFitch2112]

I hope so, too. I always enjoy his videos, but long, animated ones are very time-consuming to put together. It's a labor of love.

[@thomasgcampbell]

I was an aid worker in South Sudan and there are still polio cases in some of the poorest areas of central Africa, not just Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[@helenllama]

Some Polio cases are vaccination derived poliomyelitis virus. Which are the cases in Africa.

[@tobyk.4911]

Are they cases of the original "wild type" polio virus, or infections by viruses that originated from the Sabin vaccine? I think he was talking specifically about the original virus when he mentioned Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[@-alovelygaycat-]

⁠@@helenllama Could I possibly get a source for this? It’s not necessarily that I don’t believe that could happen, but wasn’t part of the point of the polio vaccine that it being dead would make it very difficult to infect? I’d like to read up on this. I know KZbin is finicky with links, so just give me the name of an article or a website you found an article on. I’m sure I can find it with enough Googling. Thanks!

[@lisali7282]

My middle school was named after him. I only knew he invented the polio vaccine but I'm so happy you shared his story. Feel proud I went to a school named after him.

[@sydneys207]

There are hardly any photos I find more beautiful than the "Thank you Dr Salk" photo of someone putting a sign up in their shoe shop. One of the best

[@BrigidFitch2112]

I also like the picture of the cheer leaders who wore the letters to spell out SALK.

[@flodnak]

The 1979 wild polio outbreak in the US was in the area where I grew up - I was 9. At the time, many (though not all!) Amish and Mennonite families in Pennsylvania didn't vaccinate their children, not because of any specific religious objection to vaccines but just because they generally didn't visit doctors unless something was seriously wrong. When polio started spreading through that undervaccinated population, the public health authorities urged *everyone* who lived in Lancaster County and who either had never been vaccinated against polio, or whose last vaccine was more than X years ago, to get the vaccine. There was even a door-to-door campaign to reach Mennonite and Amish families. And it worked!

[@J-D-Pye]

I attended The Daycroft School in Greenwich, Connecticut and left two years before the polio outbreak there. My father had instructed my public grade school not to vaccinate me, so I also grew up unvaccinated. It wasn’t until 2001, while living in Dallas, that I finally received the polio vaccine. Reflecting on the outbreak, I realize how easily I could have been infected, especially given the close-knit nature of the CS school community. This experience has shaped how I view the importance of vaccines, not just for individual protection but for safeguarding everyone in our community. My heart goes out to those who were affected and to anyone navigating the complex feelings around this chapter of that school's history.

[@ediekimo9110]

I haven't watched a captivating story like this on KZbin in a long time

[@GhulamAliMangi-i1s]

My uncle was diagnosed with polio at a young age, his right leg shrunk in size and got paralyzed. I YEARN for the day this disease gets eradicated in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (I'm Pakistani btw)

[@carolew994]

Same with my dad. Had polio, before vaccine availability, leg astrophied, wore a brace his entire life.

[@AwesomeFish12]

There's unfortunately a lot of distrust of foreign vaccines in that part of the world.

[@BrigidFitch2112]

I'm concerned it will come back in the US with all of the nonsense being spread. There was a man in NY who had it a year or so ago and wound up paralyzed, and live virus has been detected in some water samples. I think the man in NY may have been exposed in another country, but I could see it making a come-back here. I hope I'm wrong.

[@EmmaErsblabla]

I had an aunt who was a polio survivor, passed on just last year. We're Danish, and she contracted it during the "Copenhagen Epidemic" which was at its highest in 1952-'53, and had to spend the rest of her life with paralysis from her waist down, immunocompromised and with stunted growth - aside from the lethal cases and the ones who ended up in an iron lung, that was the 'bad case scenario'. She was as stubborn as a donkey though, my aunt, and insisted on walking (with crutches and leg braces) her entire life, even drove her own car, which was customised so she could drive it with just her hands/arms (what an absolute queen). BUT every storm cloud has a silver lining - before the Copenhagen Epidemic, intensive care and anesthesiology weren't as such medical specialisations, but the immense pressure on the hospitals of Copenhagen and the medical staff that worked them made it clear that it WAS a field you needed specialised doctors and nursing staff in. So they started training doctors and nurses in high abundance in the few tricks they had learned during the most trying times, so there could be "ICU specialised care". WHO even opened an anesthesiology centre in Copenhagen, so that doctors from all over the world could receive training and exchange experiences in the most effective patient care.

[@unknownentity7964]

That's absolutely incredible! Thank you for sharing. I love learning new things like that. I'm someone who is living in the strange position of having a condition which is technically terminal, however medical advances mean that I'm actually able to live, despite the serious symptoms. I rely on a ventilator plus multiple breathing treatments, a lot of specialised equipment (otherwise I'd be bed bound), multiple IV infusions every day which has 100% of my nutrition needs plus many additional lifesaving medications infused. I need daily 24/7 caregivers, plus many nurse visits and monitoring of my blood to watch out for life threatening metabolic or adrenal crises which can take me from (my version of) healthy, to at deaths door in the span of an hour. My bedroom is like a mini - ICU, and I have to have a whole room in my house dedicated to all the supplies and machines I need. Without developments like you wrote about, I would have been dead before my 3rd birthday, like most people with my condition were. I'm extremely lucky that I've just made it to adulthood, something I don't take for granted at all. We don't know how much longer I have left, any of my crises or seizures could be fatal every time, or I could develop issues that even modern medicine can't help. But for now, I'm here and I'm very grateful

[@EmmaErsblabla]

@@unknownentity7964 I hope you're here for a long time yet (and a good time!) 🥲 Medical advances are amazing though. I had an acquaintance who sadly suffered from cystic fibrosis and only lived to 18, this was only back in the 00s - but these days, hospital treatments and available medicine have apparently come so far that over half of patients with CF are living past the age of 40! (in countries where the care is available, at least). That was unimaginable just a few decades ago ❤

[@XenonJohnD]

Bjørn Aage Ibsen was the anesthesiologist in Blegdam Hospital, Copenhagen, who is now credited as being the inventor of the ICU. Faced with a huge number of adults and children who could not breathe and only a few iron lungs which were not particularly effective anyway, he took the radical at the time step of hand ventilating a 12 year old child, Vivi Ebert, through a tube in the front of the neck, using a rubber bag. Subsequently relays of hundreds of medical and dental students worked in 8 hour shifts hand ventilating these patients with occasional relief for cigarette breaks, many of whom were children. The mortality immediately fell from 87% to 47% and by 1953 it was down to 11%. Interestingly none of these volunteers contracted polio. As a medical student it was also good to know who your friends were as if nobody came to relieve you, you would have to continue hand ventilating your patient for another 8 hours. This was exhausting, not just physically but mentally as they would get to know their patients well. By the time of the 1953 outbreak some of the earliest lung ventilators had appeared to relieve medical students of such duties.

[@EmmaErsblabla]

@@XenonJohnD ❤ It's just such an amazing example of what humans will do for each other. Like it wasn't just to improve medical practice and scientific knowledge (although I realise that's where my original comment pivoted) - but an effort to save actual people's (kids 🥺) lives! I have an uncle who was a doctor (previously mentioned aunt's brother) - he was amazing at connecting with patients, but had to step back in the end and go into research instead, because being the bearer of bad news in diagnostic situations so often took a major emotional toll on him (he was often brought in by colleagues to specifically deliver bad news...). And then to think about all the doctors that stay in that, despite the obvious toll. Actual, real life heroes.

[@rebekahweber2413]

My grandfather contracted Polio in Decatur, IL, when my father was about 6. My hometown or Peoria housed the USDA Agricultural Laboratory, where advancements are discovered all the time, many are happy accidents. I actually had a college chemistry teacher who was so much fun, as he told us hilarious and serious stories of what they did at the Ag Lab. My grandmother took care of him and he survived until he was 86, living with post-polio afflictions for 48 years, but he had crutches and braces, plus he had poor health. His heart was something else. Basically, it sounded like a horse falling down a flight of stairs. It was amazing to listen to, as I would listen to his, then listen to mine. It was crazy. He had to get a mandatory EKG at least yearly so they could have a comparison of his "usual" rhythm to an "abnormal" rhythm for him. He took so many medications daily. But he was able to cross stitch while sitting in his lazy-boy chair. We just grew up helping and always holding doors, that we don't even notice that we are pre-programmed to help everyone. We just do it with a smile. It was not until I started living around others in a big that I found out how vastly different we were raised and I still have my smalltown mentality of helping everyone I meet.

[@x2Sav]

Small towns have changed unfortunately.

[@TheNavadoc]

Excellent episode today. I lived through all this history with some of my own family affected by polio. However, I never knew all these historical details, so thanks for this outstanding contribution.

[@StarshipBambooBadger]

A literal definition of a hero

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

But if god created polio to hurt people wouldn´t that make him evil? Christians, explain.

[@sanjivjhangiani3243]

​@PROVOCATEURSK God created a universe that's, in a certain sense, "inexprable," 13:12 i.e., it has its laws that it follows, which allows things like viruses to arrive. You would probably find that if you were in a world with no viruses, there are some unintentional adverse side effects.

[@24-7gpts]

@@PROVOCATEURSK Who told you God created Polio huh?

[@username.exenotfound2943]

@@24-7gpts god created EVERTHING which would include polio and cancer etc

[@cynister7384]

​@@24-7gptsWell don't Christians say that god created everything?

[@sidney4329]

This sort of video is truly a public service. We need more education about the history of science and the struggle to develop vaccines in schools.

[@mememelane7170]

And yet, they want to burn books in some states. This is the saddest part.

[@s.h.6858]

​@mememelane7170It's only "burning books" if you count parental warning on movies "film burning". Seriously, what part of Age Appropriate and SCHOOL APPROPRIATE do you not understand???

[@lckhmup-xf5ft]

Yes!👏👏👏👏👏

[@LulaMae21]

​@@s.h.6858 These people are banning American Girl books. Yes, the ones with the dolls. I read those books starting in second grade in the 90s.

[@teresadiodato]

It's necessary to remind the importance of vaccines in an era where misinformation has made it become dangerous while it is exactly the opposite. This video gives evidence of how the vaccine has saved lives and put an end to terrible diseases. Thanks, Doctor Mike

[@misspat7555]

Autism isn’t caused by vaccines, but it is still very insulting to autistic people to suggest that getting all these illnesses would be better for kids than being autistic is. I would posit that: 1) Our world has become much more unpredictable and overstimulating, making existing in it much harder for those particularly sensitive to such things. 2) People who today are diagnosably autistic likely would have made a living farming or working at a factory a couple generations ago. Only those with multiple disabilities including autism would have required lifelong care. These facts are why autistic people are being identified more often. ALSO, many new diagnoses are occurring in adults who were missed pre-DSM-V. Our neurotype has always existed in significant numbers; this has just become more disabling for us quite recently. 😕

[@SeaBlueJay]

​@@misspat7555 Very well said! I just want to add that the most irritating thing for me, as an autistic person, is that the "study" has been debunked FOR YEARS. It was debunked almost IMMEDIATELY after being published! It has never been recognised as legitimate. EVER. Honestly, how tf are people so dense?! It was one completely bs study. ONE against THOUSANDS of others saying otherwise! Being Autistic is far better than dying, but you're not gonna get autism from a damn vaccine. You're just not. There's literally no scientific backing behind it. It's also just a stupid thing to believe. Millions of people get vaccinated YEARLY. BILLIONS of people are vaccinated right now. If vaccines caused autism it would be more common to be autistic than neurotypical. The world would literally be catered to autism because over half of the population would be autistic. But it's not. Because vaccines don't cause autism. It's that basic. You would have to lack an insane amount of braincells to believe vaccines caused autism.

[@chrisdt2297]

When the vaccines work and work steadily for so long, people forget the consequences of not taking them. Still, most people believe in vaccines but lack confidence in those who manufacture and develop them, due to the suspicion of corruption caused by the revolving door, and sunken value. Some false message the US CDC delivered during COVID-19 massively exaggerates the problem, my county's CDC has to put out announcements to clarify some of the messages from the US CDC and political figures as misinformation.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

​@@misspat7555 A couple of generations ago we all would've made a "living" working on a farm... and by made a "living" i mean we would've lived in servitude to someone with a title or be practically in servitude to the factory owner... "freedom" is really not that old

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@misspat7555 yeah Another example is with adhd Like 100 years ago noone was getting diagnosed with it They were just "poor studends"

[@sardalamit]

Thank you! With mistrust in the medical field mounting, this was needed.

[@mwilliamson3989]

My mom had polio and had a frozen hip most of her life. When I was a child I got a live polio vaccine on a sugar cube. I’m grateful there are safer vaccines now available. Thank goodness for advances in medicine and vaccines. Thanks for sharing your expert knowledge Dr. Mike! ❤

[@natalierobinson5951]

My father is a polio survivor. He contracted polio at the age of 2 1/2 years old and grew up with post-polio syndrome. The vaccine worked on his brother, but not my father. My dad still went on to do amazing things with his life, get married, have 3 children and many grandchildren too. He was sharp as a tac until he passed just before he turned 70 years old. He was the BEST father and i miss my dad every day! He was the most funny and loving godly man. I love you Dad 😘🩷 Thank you Dr. Salk for helping save the human race from this terrible disease.

[@SP30305ATL]

Thanks for this video. My assistant scoutmaster and close friend's father walked with a limp caused by polio.

[@LLBB1021]

My step grandpa Joel had pollio. He was born in the late 1920s, and he told me the risk is worth the reward. Seeing him hunched over and struggling to walk the vast majority of his life while he was a successful farmer was enough to believe that. He was one of the hardest working, kindest, most laid-back men I've ever known.

[@hibryd7481]

So important in this age to have a sense of history and to understand how we got where we are, thank you for making it digestible and interesting.

[@robhardingpoetry]

Hey Dr Mike. Would love you to use your platform to educate about leprosy. It’s one of those things people think of as ancient and extinct but is really prevent in African and Asian countries where things such as stigma mean it spreads despite being not highly contagious. And the cure has been around since the 80s and is free. Similar to this vid in that we think of it as an older disease but still persists despite treatment being available

[@yasmimkettly447]

Yessss please

[@thecatfather857]

Armadillos can often get it too.

[@robhardingpoetry]

@ I may be wrong but I thought they were just carriers but don’t contract it?

[@normalchannel2185]

And the White death

[@Ash.Toronto]

@@robhardingpoetry acid fast slow growing fastidious bacillus presents with hypo-pigmented skin lesions, nerve thickening, and peripheral nerve palsies, treatment with dapsone and rifampin Just studied it for my exam tomorrow wish me all the best

[@bufyc1779]

Grateful to have had my “sugar cube” in 1960. Unfortunately, I did get to experience German measles, chicken pox, and mumps as no vaccine at that time. Still have my smallpox scar from when I was a toddler.

[@karrenwebb3341]

Same here.

[@jillcrowe2626]

Same here. I was born in 1955 and still have my smallpox vaccine scar, but my husband, born in 1960, does not.

[@wren2239]

OMG, is that what the sugar cube was😮😮😮

[@wisdomrules8474]

You now have lifelong immunity to these diseases.

[@mariee.5912]

Aww

[@yelljal2764]

I love Dr. Jonas Salk. One of my largest inspirations as a nursing student.

[@jjinmahn3374]

This video is especially important now, considering the appointment of RFK, a vaccine "skeptic" who caused the deaths of many children in Samoa by campaigning against vaccinating kids for measles during his visit. Vaccines save lives, including people who have autoimmune disorders like me.

[@brickwall7723]

Provide citations for your argument, or I'm calling bullshit, ​@@Kroh13

[@Iconoclasher]

Vaccines "cause issues". No vaccines cause issues. Take your pick.

[@yolobathsalts]

​@@Atrop1neclassic bootlicker. "I disagree so you're a bot" lmao. Proof of a vaccine causing issues? A very recent unstudied and forced one comes to mind.

[@PyroRob69]

Yeah, especially with all the illegals bringing back diseases that have been mostly eradicated in the US

[@andreawilliams4977]

So true. I'm worried that he will cause a lot of damage.

[@novampires223]

My favorite teacher in grade school who let me read whatever book was at hand, she had polio. Walked with a limp is all I saw. She taught me the important things... to ask, who, what, where, when and why? It has served me well dealing with quack medicine and general BS. Thank you Miss Olin.😊

[@TSkillz407]

Do more stories like this Dr Mike. This was very informative, intriguing and you narrated it perfectly.

[@ImperfectNobody]

Fun fact: my half-sister's grandfather was one kid used to help develop the vaccine. The Saukett strain is named after him- though they misread his surname which was Sarkett haha

[@MicrowavedAlastair5390]

I did a report on Dr. Salk for history. It's wild to me that people so quickly forgot how exciting this was.

[@Gio-sx7kt]

It was one of the biggest achievements in propaganda campaigns, to the point people still believe it. Feels like being stuck in the 1950s. Peter Hotep will probably get his Yellow Fever wish and then everyone will also be saying "DDT is good for me!"

[@Gio-sx7kt]

Look up the work of Dr. Morton Biskind, and Rachel Carson.

[@craZgirl1091]

It's so refreshing to hear an explanation that isn't 100% accusatory and isn't 100% forgiving. I'd love to see more videos on vaccines and their controversial histories!

[@ashlynchard7044]

A great story, but can we talk about how good Dr Mike is at telling stories?!

[@caroljeanscott5571]

I have seen other reports on the Salk and polio and Dr. Mike seems to be accurate.

[@melissabaier268]

Right Doc Mikhail is got to Be #1 in Story tell he can make ANYONE WANT TO LISTEN ❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU Doc Mikhail Varshavski ❤❤❤💯🥰

[@kjohnson1496]

The added animated reenactments go perfectly with his story telling!

[@BrigidFitch2112]

Dr. Mike is a fantastic science communicator.

[@BigYouDog]

I'm in the UK, and I'm now 75. I remember getting the vaccine at school. It was originally administered by injection but later on a cube of sugar.

[@TheKyPerson]

My mother was a nurse and she had seen what polio could do to a person. As soon as the Salk vaccine was available, she made sure all of us kids got it. We later got the Sabin vaccine too. Dr Salk is one of my personal heroes.

[@Gio-sx7kt]

Dr. Morton Biskind and Rachel Carson are my personal heroes. I thank them everyday for my ability to ambilate.

[@WiWillemijn]

16:10 lol the happiness with which you say he was murdered

[@wendysherbert3257]

My Grandfather had polio and was paralyzed from the waist down. He was a fantastic Papa , as we called him, and he was able to buy a modest home with a pool so he could exercise. I have found memories of riding on his lap in his wheelchair…it was so fun. 😊 He was such a nice man. Brave too.

[@davidcook1622]

As a child in elementary school during the forties, I remember raising money for The March of Dimes.

[@Zeyev]

I was a polio pioneer in Montgomery, Alabama. Right before we moved there (my father was in the Air Force), an epidemic had devastated the city. I remember my parents taking me with them to visit someone who was in an iron lung. My first injection in school was normal saline as part of a control group so I had to go to a doctor for the follow-up.

[@anandavmoura]

In April, I will graduate in medicine, and Dr. Mike has certainly been a great inspiration for the kind of doctor I aspire to be-someone who makes a positive impact on the world by practicing evidence-based medicine and leading with truth and integrity. ❤️

[@samanthastjohn7093]

I hope you get to live that dream and, congratulations!🎉 No small feat❤

[@latoyathomas6544]

As someone with a chronic illness, Sickle Cell Disease, I thank you. It's not the doctors or nurses who are the problem, it's INSURANCE! I wish you luck with RFK Jr. in charge in Chump's unfortunate Administration.

[@KoushaTalebian]

And now we are back to mistrust of vaccines and medicine in general. Man it's frustrating having to deal with this level of idiocracy

[@harrietharlow9929]

It absolutely is. My parents were conservatives but they believed in science.

[@Rileyed]

Bc the metadata was published and the courts ruled. You guys ever study anything at all before calling others stupid? Vaccinated live shorter lives and 10 times more likely to be handicapped or Chronic disease. The data is clear as anything. You guys are b….rainwashed.

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

People don´t trust the evil rich that force people to do something, it´s understandable.

[@DerekS-kq3zh]

When you openly politicize medicine, of course people are going to lose trust in it. Look in the mirror.

[@lisaia7877]

This man had the commitment and brains that we need in the individuals hired into the medical system overarchingly and instead there was just him.

[@PrinAnie]

My uncle had polio. A mild case where he cannot move his shoulder in full rotation. My dad born 8 years later was vaccinated as early as possible. My cousin had whooping cough when she was too young for the vaccine. She was in hospital for a while, but luckily she has no permanent damage. Let's just say that my family is pro-vax (Also we are neighbours. My heritage is Litvac)

[@72bslade]

One of my cousins had whooping cough too. I’m not sure why. I grew up in the 70’s, and she was two years older than me. To my knowledge, my aunt and uncle were not anti-vax, but that was something that wasn’t discussed back then. They were rigid Pentecostals, so I guess anything is possible, but none of their other kids got sick from a vaccine-preventable disease. I remember getting all of mine, including polio. It was the only one I didn’t object to…grape flavored 😂 and no needle.

[@junerussell6972]

I'm a retired pediatrician. I only had one patient who ended up with whooping cough. She caught it from her teenage siblings (who were not part of my practice.) The only reason she didn't have the vaccine is because she had an "evolving neurologic condition" (which was a major contraindication for getting the DPT instead of a DT. This was before we had acellular pertussis/whooping cough vaccines.) Of course, she was in a world of hurt and we were very lucky that we didn't lose her to the pertussis! Interestingly, her "evolving neurologic disorder" resolved after she had the illness, although we never did find out why (since it was correlation, not causation.) I'm so glad we have the ability to vaccinate teens and adults for pertussis now. My patient probably would never have gotten it if we had had the vaccine for her siblings. At that point, the oldest who could get the vaccine were 60 months (5 years old) because there were too many side effects in people older than that. Your cousin would have been protected if everyone around her had been vaccinated. Like many vaccines, they wear off over time, so even if the kids were protected, when they got to be adults they were no longer protected.

[@sarah2.017]

@@junerussell6972 The children who were believed to have brain damage caused by pertussis vaccine turned out, in most cases, to have a genetic error of sodium metabolism in the brain. Dr. Paul Offit wrote a whole book about it. I used to live in an area with a large Amish population. They don't ban vaccines, but many of them do not participate in entities where they are required. We had a lot of vaccine-preventable illnesses, and they were almost always in the Amish, or people who worked with them.

[@PrinAnie]

@@junerussell6972 I completely agree. This was in 1979/1980. I don't even know if it was offered to adults back then. I personally never got vaccinated for a few, like MMR or chicken, not because my parents were antivax, but because they didn't know better. They went to the government clinic at the time for each one, and the nurse did it. The nurse never told them they should also talk to a private doctor. My wife, on the other hand, is the child of 2 doctors, and she received a number that weren't offered to me.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@72bslade That grape flavor was great! My parents were grateful there was an oral vaccine.

[@areemmjay]

Amazing video. I only wish people spoke more about the consequences of a polio comeback. We still have patients with hemiparesis and post polio syndrome who's lives were undoubtedly changed by contracting polio as children. And yet, it seems like everyone's forgotten how terrifying this disease was.

[@tsundemon]

And it's unfortunate that they hired someone who wants to deter people to get the polio vaccine

[@donaldcordner1936]

Dude. At 8:12 to 8:52 I actually choked up. I also didn't know that the dime has Roosevelt's face on it due to his connection to The March of Dimes. Wow! I mean ... WOW!! Wonderful video!!

[@reaggss]

I love watching your channel, Dr. Mike. It is very educational, and entertaining! I try watching one every single week, and it has taught me a lot. Thank you for taking the time to educate people. ❤

[@FrogWitch666]

My great aunt grew up in Sudan and contracted polio when she was a child, she didn’t end up getting the vaccine for polio until she immigrated to the usa at the age of 26. Polio disabled her permanently in her right leg, she was unable to move it completely, but it inspired her to study to become a doctor of specialized diseases in cleveland, Ohio.

[@lukepowers4749]

I absolutely LOVE the storytelling with the custom animations! This reminds me a lot of Veritasium videos like his one on Oppenheimer. Please do more historical videos like this one!

[@Michelle_Lynnn]

“Dr. Mike, the true story of a doctor who turns down millions worth of deals with other companies because he has integrity”

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Integrity? Serving the dead and debt causing health"care" capitalist scam in USA?

[@McBlazington]

Whether the inactive or attenuated vaccine "won", it's a good thing both were being researched. Could you imagine how slow research would go if only one idea was looked into at a time? Worldwide, an oral (attenuated) and inactive version are both used.

[@chancock4222]

Yet we have a nepo-baby lawyer with brain worms saying we shouldn't have it.

[@bytesizebiotech]

"lawyer"... what a disgrace to the name of judicial professionals.

[@dozer11]

How anyone believes or thinks that guy is intelligent is frustrating. He’s not an expert in healthcare or science, so why the F do people believe him?

[@Clarytee217]

We have truly learned nothing as a society

[@Rosskles]

Republicans defunding education is how we got here.

[@aurthurpendragon1015]

Who?

[@plasticbutler]

If there were idiotic social media back then, there would be Prosecute Salk hash tags.

[@tournamentmaster2000]

instead of prosecuting the company that manufactured the vaccine incorrectly

[@sayorancode]

LOL that is fax fr bro

[@Gumbocinno]

@@plasticbutler Same as always. Something happens and someone needs to get blamed. If no one person is at fault, people will point fingers.

[@RobertaDiPaolo-z2c]

I love the grounded reality of this channel!! Retirement took a toll on my finances, but I am so excited with my involvement in the digital market. $172k monthly has been life changing. Regardless of how bad it gets on the economy.

[@SalvadorBalcarceMariani]

Hello how do you make such monthly??

[@chanelmaxelon6058]

I learn so much from your videos. Thank you

[@StanJones-ww8th]

I received the Salk vaccine in Fall, 1956 at school. Sometime later (i don't recall the year) I also received Sabin's vaccine via the famous "sugar cube". My mother was an RN and I walked many miles door-to-door with her for the "Mother's March on Polio" asking for dimes but often receiving change and sometimes a few bills. My family knew a number of adults who had contracted the disease before vaccine was available and I knew 2 fellow classmates who wore leg braces after becoming infected before vaccine was available.

[@jaime717]

I love these animated history stories! Can you make one about the discovery of insulin? Thank you for your integrity and honesty, Dr. Mike.

[@tamarinmangold1414]

That would be awesome!

[@mujtabamahmud579]

My Alma mater - The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy - is where the vaccine was made and our building is called Salk Hall :)

[@mimib1515]

Hail to Pitt! '95

[@ColoringKaria]

The little girl at 6:49 was soooo adorable 🥹🥹🥹

[@Shinobu_kocho123-l6d]

I know 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@gachagamer536]

So expressive. Also when you think about it, it's kinda weird to call people that are older than us alive today cute, especially if they are alive today, like I can see her being a grandma and calling us cute instead

[@SupremeNova999]

Diddy moment?

[@cynister7384]

​@@SupremeNova999Bro what

[@ColoringKaria]

@@cynister7384 that poster needs to be a watch list. A smaller channel would have deleted that comment and blocked him from posting again.

[@melody_shmelody]

My friend’s parents lived in the same small town growing up. Her dad got polio and recovered but has had serious muscular and other health problems since. Her mom was one of the first to receive the polio vaccine. What a difference.