Polio once the most feared diseases in America during the 1950’s. Parents were frightened to let their children go out to play, especially in the summer when the virus seemed to tear its ugly head and peak. Pools were closed, parks, movie theaters all closed. Even birthday parties were cancelled. Inter city travel and commerce was restricted, quarantines were imposed to restrict the movements of well people. Thanks to the polio vaccine and Jonas Salk the created, health care workers and diligent parents polio has been eliminated in this country for more than 30 years. Shown here is how the vaccine was distributed. On three consecutive Sundays in 1960 called Sabin Sunday we line up outside schools and other buildings after church in our Sunday best to receive the pink sugar cube which contained the vaccine that would end polio forever. I remember lining up at south end school with my family, happy this nightmare would be ending. That’s why Monday 60 years later I lined up once again to get the shot that would end this terrible plaque we live with now. I will line up again March15 for my second dose and be thrilled to get it.
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Wow! I do not remember standing in line in a school for a polio cube. I believe that I received an injection in the arm. I remember being at the Jersey Shore with my family and being on the Boardwalk where we saw a pavilion with a few children inside in one of those capsule looking like objects. I remember being scared. I was afraid that I was going to catch the disease and wind up in one of those.
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You are probably right, when they first started giving the vaccine it was an injection to many children , you must have been the right age for it. But they had to reach more people so dr. Sabin came up with the idea of putting it in a sugar cube and it could be distributed faster. It took only 3 Sundays in 1960 to reach millions of people.
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