Polio. The Other Twentieth Century Epidemic

The lessons for COVID-19

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The 1918 Spanish Flu was swift, devastating and of epic proportions, but for baby boomers, COVID-19 is strangely reminiscent of another 20th-century epidemic. Anybody over 60 today lived through the polio epidemic. I was born just before the discovery and introduction of a vaccine. While I have only vague memories, most of my generation have…