COLUMN: 'Polio Sundays' saved lives 50 years ago

I got a flu shot last week. It didn’t hurt and I got a nice booklet of coupons for my trouble.
It seems that getting an annual vaccination for a variety of ills has turned routine, something we take for granted. One local pharmacy will even bring the shots to your workplace.
But it wasn’t always that way.
There have been times, in the not-so-distant past, that preventative measures were not available to the public. Epidemics occurred. People became sick and sometimes died.
The best you could do was avoid everybody and pray.

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