'Polio Pioneer' Sees Shades of the '50s and '60s in Today's Pandemic
‘Polio Pioneer' Sees Shades of the '50s and '60s in Today's Pandemic Joe Brandt Dr. Stephen Gluckman is holding onto two pieces of vaccine history. One, from the 1950s, labels him a "Polio Pioneer." He was one of the million-plus children around the country who took part in the clinical trial for Jonas Salk's polio vaccine. Another shows that Gluckman, a Penn Medicine physician, received his second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine early this month, decades after he participated in Salk's trial. He thought about the past a few times as he lined up for those doses. In some ...
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