How the Rollouts <br />of the Polio Vaccine , and COVID-19 <br />Vaccine Compare.<br />How the Rollouts <br />of the Polio Vaccine , and COVID-19 <br />Vaccine Compare.<br />Polio once ravaged the U.S. before a <br />vaccine was developed.<br />In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis <br />each year, Via CDC Website.<br />Thanks to successful vaccine rollouts, polio <br />in America is largely a disease of the past.<br />There hasn’t been a case in this hemisphere in decades. It’s a triumph, a scientific triumph, Dr. Stephen Gluckman, via NBC News.<br />Because most polio victims were children, vaccines <br />were administered in schools. They were later distributed orally via sugar cubes.<br />Everybody just lined up. You walked in, they handed you a sugar cube [infused with the vaccine], you swallowed it and walked on. Each person was a few seconds, Dr. Thomas Farley, Philadelphia's Health Commissioner, via NBC News.<br />By contrast, the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine <br />has been marred by lack of a clear infrastructure.<br />We’re just trying to find ways to create an infrastructure that doesn’t exist, which is <br />an infrastructure for <br />mass vaccination, Dr. Paul Offit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, via NBC News.<br />Once the polio vaccine was created, the media went to work declaring it "safe, potent and effective.".<br />Those three words were the headline of every newspaper <br />in America, Dr. Paul Offit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, via NBC News.<br />While mainstream media has touted the same <br />message for the COVID-19 vaccines, <br />getting inoculated has been politicized.<br />Despite vast differences between the vaccine rollouts, medical professionals agree about the scale of <br />tragedy caused by the diseases.<br />[The coronavirus pandemic] is just like polio was, just like World War II was, it's a shared national tragedy. But it's not perceived that way, Dr. Paul Offit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, via NBC News
