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...McLean, Va., Randall Kerr, 6, was where he had begged to be: at the head of the line. He was not only the first in Fairfax County, but the first child in the nation inoculated in the mass trials of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29). Randy, like the rest of the Virginia kids, knew that he was getting real vaccine. (In a dozen states, half the children are being given an inert control substance.) Randy's comment: "I could hardly feel it. It hurt less than a penicillin shot...
Eight University doctors yesterday gave final approval for Massachusetts to participate in one of the biggest public health experiments in history, the nation wide tests of the Salk polio vaccine...
Several hours after their decision, Dr. Samuel B. Kirkwood, M.D. '31, State Health Commissioner, announced that on the basis of the committee's recommendation up to 40,000 school children in the state will be vaccinated with the Salk serum before June...
...expected that within a year the vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh, will provide an answer to the question of whether or not infantile paralysis has been conquered...
...will just have to wait and see," Dr. Enders said yesterday when asked whether the Salk vaccine will prove the final answer to the polio problem. He explained, however, that the vaccine seems to produce antibodies in the blood which counteract all three kinds of polio...