What Happened After Polio Vaccine Was Developed

[@alexandrak.5372]

My grandfather was a doctor and met Salk a couple of times. According to my Pop-pop, he went to a conference where afterwards Salk gave physicians free vaccines. And that's how my dad was vaccinated in 1953. Salk, I'm told, was extremely passionate about medicine and believed healthcare shouldn't be affected by one's income. Truly a great doctor!

[@heathtinsman5950]

@Tony. O'Brien America is better than whatever country you are from...Despite our health care system...🇺🇸

[@TheLynyrd76]

Heath Tinsman lol

[@bubbarat8679]

@@heathtinsman5950 Riot on man

[@sarahprince2412]

@Tony. O'Brien Let me ask you a question. Who pays for the healthcare then?? I hate to to break it to you but universal healthcare is not great. Someone has to pay for it and guess what, it’s the taxpayers who pay. It’s nice for everyone to have healthcare but it comes at the cost of the taxpayers. So that means the taxpayers are footing the bill and their taxes are skyrocketing because they are taking care of everyone including those who do not pay into the system(a.k.a freeloaders). Nothing is free. That’s something that all you people who gripe about everyone is entitled to free healthcare, free education, free this, free that, etc. needs to understand. Also, we don’t deny someone based on their age and other factors unlike universal healthcare. Our healthcare system may have a lot of flaws but it really is the best in the world.

[@stephaniemccormick6830]

Sarah Prince I live in a country with universal healthcare and no one I know has ever been denied medical treatment they needed. Some elective procedures may require a wait but that’s it. It’s great that you like the system you have but most of us with taxpayer funded healthcare are pretty happy with what we have and would not want the system the States has.

[@davidllewis4075]

It was Summer of 1948, I was five. I learned about Roosevelt when she went out for Mother's March for Polio. I remember the outbreak of 1952 and not going swimming that year. My mother, with terror in her eyes, said she would sell all she had to get a Polio vaccine for her children. When the vaccine came it was free.

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

That's beautiful!

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Nice

[@davidllewis4075]

d@Amy Sternheim Don't know about that; but doubt they'd have the terror in their eyes a five year old boy would remember over 70 years later. David

[@keloid123]

@@davidllewis4075 the crazy eye.

[@davidllewis4075]

@@keloid123 You knew my mother? David

[@Tjay99k]

These videos need to be shown in schools

[@AmericanAppleProd]

The fact about the faulty vaccines would empower the Karens though

[@pixeldragon6387]

Dovakin Brown can’t censor history to defend your own point, that’s just propaganda. The fact that no one here has ever even met someone who’s had polio is proof of its safe effectiveness

[@barrncat]

@@pixeldragon6387 There was a boy in my kindergarten class (1955) who wore leg braces. He was one of the last unfortunate victims of that dread disease.

[@UnchainedAmerica]

agreed! Antivaxxers need this video plugged into their brains.

[@Area51AlphaZulu]

@@UnchainedAmerica antivaxxers won't survive long enough to do that, which is very sad. I just feel bad for the kids.

[@vguy488]

Dr. Jonas Salk is my personal hero. He's a man who saved me and countless others from a life suffering a horribly debilitating disease, and chose not to patent the vaccine he helped create, missing out on earning literal billions for himself. "Would you patent the sun?" he answered when he was asked why there was no patent. A man I will remember and admire until the end of my days indeed. I can only give one like, sorry. This video deserves so much more.

[@Britspence381]

I agree with you 100% on your admiration of Dr. Salk's altruism and absence of greed.

[@bubbarat8679]

Its a sad fact that today people want to patent the Sun. As a RN 30yrs plus I have had the honour of working with some great Drs who have done some amazing work and created medical equipment that is now used daily to save many lives. Most Drs I have worked with have done it to help mankind not for personal glory.

[@KC______]

Free Your Mind! Check out 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack' available in book, ebook, audiobook and video (PBS did a program on it a few years ago).

[@MooCow834]

dave4248 he still didn’t even seek a patent

[@ciaravalenzuela2467]

@@KC______ yes! I was going to point that out too. People should know more about this incredible woman and her immense contribution to medicine.

[@sairbear444]

My grandma who died this year had polio as a child. She had a limp her whole life but she never left it stop her - she would never have called herself disabled. I miss her.

[@sagittaria9566]

An admirable woman indeed. May her soul rest in peace

[@TheKyPerson]

I got the vaccine when I was about 7. My mother had been a nurse and made sure we all got it since she had seen what happened to some people who had gotten polio. When the Sabin vaccine came out in 1960, we got that one too. When I was a kid, I got measles, mumps, chicken pox and rubella. My grandchildren didn't have to have any of those. In my opinion, Jonas Salk was one of the heroes of the 20th century.

[@ashleelarsen7765]

4:40 finally

[@greenmachine5600]

Agreed

[@pamelamays4186]

The song "A Spoonful Of Sugar" from the film Mary Poppins was inspired by the giving doses of the oral polio vaccine on a sugar cube.

[@BrettonFerguson]

So which was it, spoonfuls of sugar, or sugar cubes?

[@DonRicoKing]

@@BrettonFerguson Due to nature of vaccines being liquid the sugar cube dissolved with vaccine in kinda like syrupy mass.

[@davidjamesshaver]

@@BrettonFerguson I was born in 1964. I seem to remember cubes but Im pretty sure I got The Jab 😄 I think at least the parents had an option of which form it was administered in. davidjamesshaver.online

[@barrncat]

@@DonRicoKing I remember having the polio vaccine on a sugar cube back when it came out in Canada in the 1950s It must have been only a drop or two for the cube remained firm and still sweet.

[@josephb.6158]

Maybe castor oil.

[@mohammadzaker575]

I am a citizen of Iran Tehran, I was born in August 1985 and have polio on my left leg, I got oral vaccine, my parents said it's because of faulty vaccine but now maybe I am the one chance in two and half million, I am very thank full of Mr. Salk for all his work

[@davidjamesshaver]

God is great Mohammad, he will heal your left leg. God bless you for your big brave heart 🙏 davidjamesshaver.online

[@satwiki1940]

Your case could also be a post vaccination paralytic polio since oral polio vaccine is an attenuated form (but still live). It might not be a faulty vaccine but a rare unfortunate adverse effect of the vaccine.

[@MoonMoon-qy3jz]

We born in the same month and year but i was born in august 6... Hello there 😄

[@yashas9974]

@@satwiki1940 or might indicate potential immune system problems.

[@professorsprout3382]

Bless you.

[@mightress]

Todays greedy world: this pill cost 3 cents to make and saves millions of life if they take it. Lets put a price of 800 bucks on it.

[@GWEBrasil15]

That's the world of pattents and non sense intellectual property. If anybody could reverse engineer vaccines or drugs than there would be more competition and lower prices. Instead the pattent grants a monopoly over who discovered it and they can charge as much as they like.

[@neoasura]

@@GWEBrasil15 There is a bigger picture here, there are too many people on this planet as it is, we are over populated, no great wars in decades. Its too expensive to keep everyone alive and fighting for resources.

[@nitinpatel1391]

It's not always the pill cost but research and development cost behind the pill..... sometime

[@pompommania]

@@nitinpatel1391 right, I agree with you. I do think some companies gouge prices, but I understand how research cost money too (*cough* *cough* EpiPen..)

[@logankimmet3465]

@@neoasura that's a bit narcissistic of you to say. I'm sure if you happened to be one of the people faced with an early death due to an easily cured disease (but you couldn't afford it because of inflated pricing), your opinion would change quickly.

[@MrGaming-pb5mz]

I would like to hear the history of antibiotics

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

That ones pretty crazy considering how it all started with bread mold in a lab.

[@JW-mb1wm]

I’m pretty sure he did one on that! :)

[@alfaromeo1819]

@@samuelrodriguez9801 History beguns with Galenus in Dark Age long long time ago

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

Alfa Romeo Galenus contributed to the development of germ theory and the later discovery of bacteria centuries later down the line.

[@KC______]

It's not the history of antibiotics but is more in line with the video that is the topic. Available in almost all formats: "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks " is more than worthwhile, imho. I don't think you will be disappointed at all. Clue (No spoiler): It greatly expands, humanizes, and illuminates the events and science that led to the breakthrough credtited to Dr. Jonas Salk.

[@danniis9444]

This man is the epitome of what I wish every doctor in the world bases their career of becoming. A true hero of humanity.

[@grapeshot]

My mother was a kid back in the 1950s and she told me about the polio vaccine. How they had to stand in a long line and my mom said you could look ahead and hear kids crying knowing your turn was coming up soon.

[@owowhatsthis._.6943]

Wow

[@dami5154]

my mother is the only person i know who has it (she’s 47) and for the longest time i thought it was common

[@poordropo1]

My parents went through the same thing. They were given cards that proclaimed they were ‘polio pioneers.”

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Did she get a lollipop after?

[@valoriecarson1476]

Me too!

[@darrellwood199]

I can remember back then. Dr. Salk is someone I remember when he came up with the vaccine. I will remember him as the caring person he was : To care for all human life .

[@matth8924]

I love science. We live in a world free of many horrendous diseases because of the work done by those who came before.

[@savedbychristsavedbygrace2049]

Yeah now they just genetically engineere them now. Covid

[@matth8924]

@@savedbychristsavedbygrace2049 if this virus is genetically engineered, they did a terrible job making it. Go donate to some megachurch boomer

[@jokuvaan5175]

@@savedbychristsavedbygrace2049 Lab altered viruses contain strands of other viruses' RNA. No one has found evidence of corona having any. They just know corona virus most closely related to viruses in bats living in Wuhan China.

[@Noah-hq5rs]

@@jokuvaan5175 Maybe the CCP sort of farmed or bred the virus in animals until it naturally jumped to humans. That way it can't be said it's lab made but still cause havoc around the world. It should be noted that I'm not saying I believe that's what happened. I just wouldn't rule out any possibility when it comes to communist china.

[@matth8924]

@@Noah-hq5rs I'm a firm believer of occams razor. You have a wet market with tons of animals and people in very close proximity, with little to no sanitation at all. It's only a matter of time before 2 different strands of dna come into contact and create a virus that then proceeds to jump to humans. We've seen it time and time again with wet markets.

[@christykaderman6484]

I have a neighbor who survived polio she has to have braces on her legs . She's a nice lady . My grandpa had polio and it made it to where he couldn't grow hair on his legs

[@miso.1993]

id love to be able to never shave my legs again lmao. jk jk but its a miracle he survived polio!

[@JayCBR1100xx]

Just imagine if a collective global effort could be made to combat diseases that were fighting with today. Imagine if greed, arrogance and ignorance didn’t get in the way of making the world a little better for our fellow man.

[@ryanprentice5754]

What do you think the WHO is for

[@TheBathulk10]

Yes blame fools like fauci for defending dirty corps like Pfizer instead of making the vaccine free to the world

[@angelserenade]

Karens didn't liked that... Joking aside. My father is a survivor of polio. He was struck by the virus when he was a child which greatly affected his left leg.

[@jeffnaslund]

My mom was, too. Her right leg

[@deborrahshiffer9582]

Hi there, also a survivor of Polio & it was my left leg as well, 1954 Anchorage Alaska.

[@maryh1421]

My mother was terrified of polio. One year in the 50s, we went on vacation. Our route took us thru a town that had a polio epidemic. She wouldn't stop in that town even to buy gas or eat. People now don't understand how bad a polio epidemic was.

[@riafojas1449]

“Can you patent the sun?” He should have had a Noble Piece Prize.

[@deborrahshiffer9582]

I'm a polio survivor from 1954 Anchorage Alaska, was in a iron lung for a month (I was 9months old it almost killed me) the iron lung saved my life. So thankfully my father & mother helped me to walk again without my brace which took them 8 or 9 yrs but I walk today without a brace. They are no longer with us, Theron &Gwen Mc Ada from your daughter Deborrah.

[@logankimmet3465]

I'm at the beach, in the sand, and I still had to pull up the new weird history upload.

[@heathtinsman5950]

Better be social distancing at the beach...😳

[@psychedelicc7452]

Heath Tinsman it doesn’t really matter mostly everyone thinks it’s ok to go out this virus will probably be here for another year if everyone keeps being stupid

[@v5in88]

Bruv it does matter

[@logankimmet3465]

@@heathtinsman5950 well I spend most of my typical day in harm's way just to make a living. So you better believe I'll spend my free time how I please. I suppose if that's a problem then maybe the government should do something about it, instead of puting the responsibility and consequences on me so they can keep some votes.

[@heathtinsman5950]

@@logankimmet3465 sarcasm Logan...Just a joke...✌

[@wolfactivist24]

The diphtheria outbreak of 1925 in Nome, Alaska.

[@xFolkmore]

Interesting how polio only occurred in the 70s in those who insufficiently or just weren’t vaccinated...

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

Because that's how vaccination works, it prevents disease.

[@Godzillafan1980]

I got the vaccine my mom was big on getting me ALL vaccines and to this day I rarely if ever get sick people that don't believe in vaccines are STUPID and obsolete

[@fashiondiva6972]

samuel rodriguez it was sarcasm🙄

[@StandTallTx]

@@samuelrodriguez9801 She was pointing out the irony between that and the fact anti-vaxxers actually exist.

[@stuckonaslide]

yes, that is how vaccines work

[@sarahrune5318]

My great uncle had polio and was damaged for the rest of his life. His arms and neck had permanent nerve damage.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

Sarah Rune my mum dad had polio

[@AKayfabe]

I recall eating a sugar cube when I entered school as a child. I have a good memory so it feels like yesterday, and I am 44 today. The Dr handed me a sugar cube as well as gave me a shit which was an MMR vaccine. My mother didn’t believe in vaccination but my grandparents did and I ended up getting them upon entering school. I never got the tetanus booster because I was allergic. And I had the Measles as a baby before I ever had the vaccine but took it anyhow because it also protects against mumps etc I recall asking my Dr why will eating sugar make me not sick? And the Dr actually explained vaccines to me at like age 5, speaking to me as if I would understand, and I did understand. My knowledge of viruses and vaccine to this day is because of what that Dr told me. They make your body think it’s fighting off a virus and you create immunity and then it protects you from getting sick from that illness again.

[@thefiregodzapp]

Karens want to bring this back. Their arrogance and idiocy knows no bounds.

[@geraldinepetress811]

My brother and I both had the Polio vaccine I was born in 1955 my brother 1964. If there is no need for it why give it. Two years ago my doctor gave me the whooping cough vaccine why I have no idea at my age.

[@agentofashcroft]

My dad was born in 1951 in the USA and he and his younger brother both got it. They both had stays in an iron lung and many years of physical therapy in order to be able to walk. He still has some lingering effects in his gait. It's a terrible disease.

[@KoltiraMemeweaver]

Ah Karens. Hate them or hate them, they always seem to be able to multiply for some reason.

[@aurorajones8481]

LOL what they want to bring back Polio?! Just because their parents were forcibly immunized? The outrage of it all! I agree their parents should have died from it allowing us to be spared the evils of "Karens".

[@Dragoderian]

@ezzz9 Unfortunately, most antivaxxers have received the vaccines they decry in childhood and, thus, the only people they will hurt are their innocent children.

[@crusinscamp]

My mother (and I) hold Dr. Salk in the highest regard. She use to recall how the newspapers in the summer reminded her of war-time papers, with their tabulations of polio victims. We had several victims of polio in our family, they survived, but the after-effects were debilitating. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Salk and Sabin for bringing this monster under control. Science rules!

[@sjk6101983]

My aunt said that before it came along, parents kept their kids at home: sound familiar?

[@sheldonaubut]

In 1953, at the age of 3 years, I got Polio. Ended up in an iron lung for some months until my lungs started working again as I was completely paralyzed. The paralysis finally abated but my right side never developed fully and I had a childhood filled with wheel chairs, crutches, braces and surgeries. I've had an incredible life though and much of what I've accomplished in that life were direct results of my having Polio. After having Polio one ironic thing was being given the Sabin vaccine at school, just a bit late for it to do any good for me.

[@raymondclements32]

I'm glad u had a good life but I'm sorry u had polio. That disease sounds horrible. I was vaccinated as a child. Thinking of getting my boosters for it. Just to be on the safe side.

[@sheldonaubut]

@@raymondclements32 -- I've been wondering if one can get Polio more than once. I know that it does produce natural immunity but it has been 69 years since I first had it. I guess it is time to do some research...

[@raymondclements32]

@@sheldonaubut I'm not sure but get them in case. U lived it once. I know u don't ever wanna go through that again. I'm glad ur still with us. I also heard that it comes back when u get older. I think it's called post polio. I'm praying that u continue to grow and get better. I'm glad ur not in an iron lung anymore.

[@Romino94]

This show always makes my day

[@Anone_Anone]

Warning, No chip were used in ingredient

[@vicp8772]

Hopefully covid19 will also b chip free

[@christopherdon1437]

After this video and the black Wall Street video, weird history should change their name to relevant history

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I was in second grade when the Salk controlled studies were done. Of course, I don't know whether I got the vaccine or a placebo, but I'm glad it worked. I had several friends my age who contracted the disease and ended up with the resultant paralysis.

[@poeticelise]

Thank you for this video! Science is cool as heck! 👍🦠🧫

[@glennellis1584]

A new "March of Dimes" ~ campaign may be needed if funding for the COVID-19 vaccines is lacking>>>>>>

[@0000-z4z]

There is CEPI, an international organization which supports the development of vaccines. Many countries have contributed financially.

[@filledwithpeace]

No, it won't. READ: Virology Journal article dated 22 August 2005, titled, "Chloroquine Is Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread", and in the National Institute of Health, the Dept. Dr. Fauci is Director of, both have references to Hydroxychloroquine not only being a CURE for CoronaVirus but also a PREVENTATIVE of the CoronaVirus. YES, Drs. Fauci and Birx knew since 2005, that Hydroxychloroquine would prevent like a Vaccine and Cure the Virus. Immediately, when President Trump suggested using Hydroxychloroquine, Dr. Fauci rebuked him. They need to be charged for all the deaths. They Knew! And they kept it from the American people and the world.! Whether you like President Trump or not, if it was your loved one who died from the CoronaVirus and Hydroxychloroquine would have kept them alive...you be upset that Drs. Fauci & Birx lied! They knew it worked. Hydroxychloroquine cost less than $25 per treatment. France, Israel, Turkey, South Korea, Bahrain, over 30 countries have successfully treated and cured COVID 19 with Hydroxychloroquine. STOP, wearing the stupid masks. Drs. Fauci and Birx did not wear masks for over 2 months when the virus was at its highest leak. Dr. Fauci even said, "Well, wear a mask if it makes you feel better, but it won't help." He even suggested that we should social distance, however, if you want to go make out with a stranger....go ahead! Just recently, when the cases are at its lowest, Drs. Fauci and Birx are wearing masks. Look up Your Health Dept Guidelines, Look up masks on the CDC website, Look Up Masks on OSHA's website. They all say that masks will NOT prevent Viruses from passing through. Viruses are too tiny. Wake up, America. While they are making masks mandatory, they are laughing behind your backs at all the people who will follow their commands. Wake up!

[@Friday_Night_Frights]

@@filledwithpeace Good idea. Why don't you head on over to your local aquarium and fish store and pick up some Hydroxychloroquine right off the shelf? Don't even need a prescription! Screw doctors, right?

[@LadySpacey]

I did a project on him in elementary school. He’s always been someone I’ve looked up to, and is one of the reasons why I am so interested in medicine today. Truly amazing.

[@zodd270]

And now polio is making a come back due to anti-vaxers... Thanks karen.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

Zodd my mum dad got polio he’s not with us he died I was a baby

[@nickolascrousillat4265]

@@louisbeerreviews8964 I'm sorry for your loss.

[@rexlint2520]

Wrong it's making a comeback because open boarders and just allowing anyone to enter without being screened for anything. Come in legally and get checked out. And there won't be a problem

[@NoName-hg6cc]

@@rexlint2520 No, that's not it

[@gleelights9525]

Lol cry harder 😂😂😂😂

[@randymorgan8375]

Salk was a great example of what Doctors should be!! Putting children first" and he never give up and push through saving thousands of children life's...

[@graceheart9913]

i love this channel it’s so great. informative and no off topic wishy washy :)

[@akbrems6949]

Wow!! You actually did my suggestion!!! Thank you for covering this topic. You’re videos are so thorough and I appreciate your content.

[@rml2765]

I know it’s a silly and little detail but I really love how they used the Canadian Flag that was the flag during the 50s and didn’t use the modern one

[@44hawk28]

I recall reading that it's currently understood that Franklin Delano Roosevelt never actually had Polio, what he had contracted was Guillaume Barre. The mechanism of his disability is the way this is measured. I happen to have had relatives who both polio, and other relatives who had Guillain-Barre. And the symptoms have enough differences to be able to tell the two apart.

[@killermon117]

I needed to watch this after seeing season 4 of f is for family

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Is it really a valid reason for Big Bill to be that harsh to Frank...

[@killermon117]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Of course not but shit apples don't far from the shit tree. Bill's father was probably a dick to him as well.

[@bull100000000]

This is honestly the only channel I have notifications on for, other than my brothers gaming KZbin channel. Keep up the good work Weird History!!!

[@Millbrook1974powderedwater]

11:25 I never knew that The Who have played a role in eradicating polio.

[@thaliabotha9]

Wow! Good content. Thanks.

[@rhiannonmartinez2872]

It would be interesting about the development of the FDA or the Thalidomide and the side effects that lasted for decades...

[@catofthecastle1681]

Side effects of what? Thalidomide was never approved for use in the US. It doesn’t cause side effects,it caused horrible birth defects! It was given out as a trial where people weren’t informed about the downside, or people went to Canada to get it.

[@Kaboomboo]

@@catofthecastle1681 Well actually Thalidomide was touted as so safe, you couldn't die from it no matter how much you took. Which is true. It couldn't kill you but pregnant women, who at the time were told that the placenta protected a fetus from things ingested by the mother, took it as a cure for morning sickness. This is what caused the huge birth defect uptick. The U.S.' FDA scientist in charge, Frances Oldham Kelsey, refused to approve it because the trials did not meet standards of safety. It was her stubborn refusal of approving the drug for the U.S. that likely saved many children, including even my own parents!

[@deletdis6173]

There's a Horror Stories video on Thalidomide. It's very interesting.

[@stuckonaslide]

the horrible side effect of being alive.

[@ravenclawavenger2170]

When the Asiatic Flu broke out in 1957 a vaccine was available by August. However most people did not take it. I had no vaccine. I got very sick and the after effects are still with me. I wish I had been vaccinated.

[@susanbedingfield4661]

As a 65 year old, I remember well going to the court house and getting my sugar cube. The whole town went. No fighting, no screaming about his or her rights. For the good of all, everyone went. Also, Polio was not eradicated. It is still out there. We just have immunity to it now.

[@carolineleiden]

Polio is a stable virus that does not mutate. Also, the vaccine is made with the traditional technique, as opposed to the risky and mire or less untested mRNA technique. Comparing polio to covid is comparing apples to pears.

[@killermon117]

Woah you mentioned the El Salvador civil war.. thank you for acknowledging

[@JetblackThemeTime]

I would like to hear what happened after the birth control pill was invented.

[@hunterdavis3003]

Lots ‘a unprotected sexy time!!!

[@lordbertos8124]

The person who probably was going to make the video dose not exist due to parents using birth control

[@jorge6207]

Perhaps the single most important invention of the XX century. Bigger than the atomic bomb, I think.

[@handikakusuma9743]

thank you weird history for always putting effort in every of your videos ❤️

[@thebrotherhoodofsleep9857]

A real hero to humanity.

[@greenmachine5600]

True

[@jeffnaslund]

I got the oral vaccine in 1965, first grade, in a Catholic school basement in Chicago. We all lined up for the sugar cube with the purple stain. My mother had polio, so it was a given we’d be vaccinated. SO glad

[@gregorflopinski9016]

How could you possibly reject a vaccine invented by such a chad

[@LynnE507]

I've just discovered your gem of a channel. Very informative, and super awesome. Keep up the super work Weird History.✌

[@BlackyK]

The anti-vaxx crowd really wants to relive those wild times.

[@JoRo417]

You mean the wild times of contracting a virus directly from the vaccine 🤔... like stated here

[@matteominuto230]

@@JoRo417 most modern days vaccines have been around for decades and are absolutely safe

[@matteominuto230]

@@JoRo417 and the people who got sick from the vaccine was because there was a fault in the manufacturing, not in the vaccine itself

[@vjs4539]

Vaccines work. The problem is all the shit they put in the vaccines that don't need to be in there. Bill Gates said that "if we do a really good job with vaccines, we can reduce the world population by 10 to 15%."

[@davidlariscy6654]

The anti-vaxxcrowd are all morons.

[@corettejones]

Excellent presentation, thank you!

[@pretentiousteatime]

The amount of lives these people have saved is impossible to imagine! It’s incredible. And just to think polio would be completely eradicated if it wasnt for some idiotic Karens being afraid of autism 🙃

[@BeanBag343]

As an autistic myself, I can't believe people think autism is worse than deadly, preventable diseases

[@ThickestSkull03]

BeanBag343 Like Small Pox or Tetanus. Lol

[@lancethrustworthy]

You couldn't dig up any footage of Salk, making the announcement? We want to see original footage.

[@brandielee7971]

Its likely copyrighted by the channel it premeired on or the footage was lost

[@dami5154]

polio is not extinct my mom has it and she’s 47 she got it from a weakened strain of the virus when she got the vaccine and now walks with a limp and it’s very difficult for her to run i’m sure there’s other ppl around her age with it as well (we r nigerian so maybe only in nigeria)

[@dami5154]

@Tony. O'Brien it’s ok, as i mentioned b4 she got a weakened strain from the vaccine so she can still walk and run (kind of) and she doesn’t need a cane or anything if u didn’t know her u would just assume she had a bad childhood injury

[@nannettecouch1945]

I remember standing in a long line of very scared & some curious kids in our school's gymnasium as we awaited our turns at getting the polio shot, no oral back then. I also remember visiting some close friends of my parents who's oldest daughter had polio and before she died she was brought home to die with her family and all of us kids were made to go into her room to say good-bye...I wish I'd been aware of how lucky I was back then and had been more appreciative of that life-saving shot...I remember lots of people in my childhood who were disabled from polio but I don't remember anyone educating us little kids on what it was.

[@beatlefreak67]

Bill murphys job went out of business

[@chickenlittle5095]

😂 Binge watched s2 on the day it was released. Love this show, so much truth in that show in regards to growing up in the 70s and 80s.

[@jasonwilkins1969]

Great video. It really filled me with hope because I never knew we eradicated at least one strain of polio

[@lennonscat]

Video ideas... Mark David Chapman (John Lennon's killer), Hitler's multiple Suicide attempts, Badfinger (band signed by the Beatles Apple record label that sold millions and ended with 2 suicides of the band members), John Belushi....

[@WeirdHistory]

John Lennon killing coming soon.

[@TaterT0tH0tdish]

@@WeirdHistory why is john Lennon killing coming soon? What did coming soon do?

[@MrJazz24292]

Great work and useful historical information

[@sanmarino5787]

I'm disappointed that I didn't find a Karen In the comments

[@DSDaly]

Keep looking, I'm sure she's here

[@yashas9974]

Karens just aren't the kind of people who would seek knowledge. You won't find them in history, science, etc. channels.

[@jrmckim]

My ex boyfriend from Honduras had polio as a kid. It affected the left side of his body.. mostly his left leg. He never let it stop him though. He is a hard worker and a very kind person. I should give him a call and see how he's doing. 😊

[@rhyno5289]

Those who protested the Ban on Vaccines should watch this 👍

[@JoRo417]

Yep. So they can see how people contracted polio directly from the vaccine. Good idea

[@catofthecastle1681]

Jose Rosado try listening to the whole thing, not just the part that fits your narrative!

[@3ladeRunner]

Jose Rosado lol have you ever been on a fucking plane flying 500 mph at 30000 feet? You act like this is the Middle Ages. We don’t know everything but science and technology has advanced crazy far. A couple years ago doctors removed a tumor from my cousins brain. But yeah sure you really know how things work.

[@AdmiralBison]

@@catofthecastle1681 fear and ignorance spreads faster and more rampant than any disease. This Jose Rosada is also probably arrogant in his ignorance to boot, thinking he knows better than his family doctor when it comes to Medical Science.

[@stuckonaslide]

but.. but my rocks and oil will save me.

[@jjsinghsandhu5974]

Do a video on AIDS/HIV and how it came into human circle.

[@trentongesler9637]

A minute ago wow. I am finally kinda early.

[@rhiannonmartinez2872]

Same😂

[@patiakreles]

My mom has polio. She had to learn how to write with her left hand because she lost force in her right part of the entire body. She had to be in a hospital for a year in quarantine at age 5, that still affects her emotionally. She thankfully didn't have full paralysis. She grew to have a normal life, she finished high school, went to university and married. Now as she is getting older is hard to see her having more mobility problems. She catched polio around 1965... She coul have received a vaccine, but her town was very small in a third world country.

[@andiwlbskqhudkwn4391]

Can I get a heart pls 💓💓 Btw love from India

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Fascinating pandemic history!

[@sanlux6878]

Why cure polio when we have shungite 🤣

[@catofthecastle1681]

Prove to me that a mineral cured anyone of polio!

[@Fudgeoff6628]

I love how he wasnt trying to turn a profit off of it. Humanity of the modern era needs to emulate his incredible selflessness, and soon.

[@chadmensa]

More opportunistic propaganda... At least the videos are well-made and usually entertaining, if not always accurate.

[@Friday_Night_Frights]

You're a special kind of ignorant, aren't you?

[@curtisdunn2909]

Found the anti vaxxer.

[@chadmensa]

@@curtisdunn2909 I'm not nearly that one dimensional. Use the force next time...

[@Cassmari1986]

my parents are born on 1947 and 1955, they did say that without this vaccine they would have been crippled as they are both from 3rd world countries. As soon as the vaccine was worldwide, they got vaccinated and it saved them cause they have some relatives who had died of Polio or even left crippled till their deaths. Dr. Salk, thank you so so much, you are truly a hero to us all.

[@youzulf]

Then a Karen watches this and wants to force everyone to be vaccinated.

[@clanceyrussell8773]

Just what is a karen

[@howtubeable]

@@clanceyrussell8773 "Karen" is a slang term for a person (usually, but not always, female) who demands everyone to follow her set of rules. Karens are the people who keep telling you that you're wearing your mask wrong.

[@thedorkone1516]

@@howtubeable Really? Most of the ones I've run in to are the ones who insist they don't need a mask at all and want their hair and nail places to open back up.

[@georgechronis8236]

Thank you

[@manuelramirez6768]

Hi Weird History team, first of all, i'm a huge fan and avid watcher, i've been following your channel for about a year. I love the variety of themes and especially your scripts and editing. Lately i've been sharing some of your videos (mostly the ones about music) with my friends, but there's a problem, they don't understand a drop of english. Have you considered adding spanish subtitles?

[@ricktrujillo5333]

On October 28, 1956 Elvis got a polio vaccination on national TV. That single event was partly responsible for raising immunization levels in the country from 0.6 percent to 80 percent in just six months.

[@DMH-bt2zo]

The scariest thing about the Polio Epidemic of 1952 is not just the deaths of the children infected with the disease and their aftermaths, but the fact that it occurred during the era of Jim Crow and right before the early days of the Civil Rights Movement. God, I can only imagine how it must’ve been like for all those African-American kids who were denied treatment for the disease. But how bad was it really?

[@usscott]

Diseases I have that I'd for you to cover. Short list. 1) Achalasia, Sarcoidosis, no cure for either. The first one starved me and I went from 240 lbs. to 172 lbs. in about 5 months. I'm a big man, 6 ft. 2 and i had 4 surgeries, 2 feeding tubes and in and out of the hospitals with no income. Wife has good insurance. 🙂

[@OmaruuDevOfficial]

Fun facts about Eddie Cantor he's the one who made Merrily We Roll Along which was eventually used in The Looney Tunes cartoons and Merrie Melodies shorts primarily

[@kmadrig123]

I once worked in a doctors office and received a call from a college student wanting to know if it would cost more to get antibody tests for or just get all the shots required to go to nursing school because her mother was an antivaxer and she never received any shots. She must of been homeschooled and took online college classes. I felt bad for her because she would have to get all those shots before going into any healthcare career.

[@sandramorey2529]

I got my polio shot at age 14 in 1954. We were all thirilled not to have to avoid swimming pools. While my shot did no harm, a school friend also got immunized in the SF East Bay and she wasn't so lucky. I believe that her shot came from a faulty batch. Anyway, my friend got polio from the shot and was rendered a paraplegic. She died at age 19 from pneumonia. We had Cutter Labs nearby in Berkeley. I don't know if her dose came from Cutter. My friend lived nearby in El ceritto. My injection came from Kaiser redwood City. By the time the sugar cubes were introduced, I was in another area of the country so I never got the sugar cube. Whether my injection is still viable, I have no idea.

[@loralee4848]

Very good video! Nice work.

[@mattf49006]

I was in kindergarten in 59...I still remember lining up by classes in the multipurpose room ..the nurses in starched white uniforms and hats..the tray of silver hypodermic needles and the pinch of the shot...I also remember up till 3rd grade at least one kid a year from our class returning from summer break with a leg or arm brace....Dr Salk was a saint

[@ndeef]

I have never been this early for a video before. Posted 13 seconds ago?!

[@izzyortiz503]

I didn't know there is still a fight to eradicate polio! Love this video.

[@patriciaschuster1371]

Salk developed it right here in Pittsburgh, Pa!

[@sanitarymailbox-8023]

Weird history is dropping some strong hints lately

[@amandareyes2458]

My grandmother had polio. Thankfully she survived but walked with a limp her entire life.

[@AmericanWayne]

I am an insurance agent so every time you say NFIP I always think of flood insurance and the government program for flood. Lol

[@NewMessage]

Beginning to sense a theme here....

[@Chris.Pontius]

Loved this video. Would also like to see a video about sleep paralysis.

[@DSDaly]

I've had that. It's awful. I can definitely see why people in the past thought it was demons and why even people today think it's aliens. It's a very scary experience!!

[@pintobean4919]

Plz do a video on how mini shopping malls began, and other major stores like Walmart, k mart , and maybe the downfall of major stores that no longer are here that we miss like k mart, Sears, circuit city, etc?

[@ahotdj07]

My mother had polio when she was a little girl. Not sure if both with it or developed it. Pretty interesting video. Thanks.

[@amberheilig524]

My grandma was one of the children that got polio from the faulty vaccine. My mom, me, and siblings have always wondered if it did some weird shit that passed down because we have all always had neck, back, and leg pain since childhood. That thought seems ridiculous, but you never know.