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Throughout history, mass vaccine rollouts have been beset by problems By Dugan Arnett Globe Staff,Updated January 10, 2021, 4:46 p.m. Email to a Friend Three people from one family were given polio shots in San Diego in 1955.Bettmann/Bettmann Archive The 1955 arrival of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine is still hailed as one of modern medicine’s crowning achievements, a lifesaving intervention that some deemed nothing short of miraculous. For those of a certain age, the mass distribution o...

1. “An Evolving Situation” There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020, when Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which was modelled on the American institution. Redfield had just received a report about an unexplained respiratory virus ...

Editorial: With COVID vaccines, hope for brighter days Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail A woman in Florida receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The development of vaccines in less than a year is a remarkable feat, worthy of tears and celebration.Marta Lavandier /Associated Press On April 12, 1955, the announcement from the University of Michigan that Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was successful set off a nationwide celebration. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Polio: An...

New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month. In 1947. Children being vaccinated for smallpox at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1947.Credit...The New York Times By James J. Florio and Ouisie Shapiro Dec. 20, 2020 In April 1947, New York City’s health commissioner, Israel Weinstein, had been on the job 10 months. He was a child on the Lower East Side when a smallpox outbreak brought the city to its knees in the early 1900s, killing 720 New Yorkers in a two-year peri...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/nyregion/nyc-smallpox-vaccine.html The vaccination line on April 14, 1947, at the New York City Health Department.Credit...Arthur Brower/The New York Times How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month When a single case of smallpox arrived in Manhattan in 1947, a severe outbreak was possible. A decisive civil servant made a bold decision. The vaccination line on April 14, 1947, at the New York City Health Department.Credit...Arthur Brower...