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The goal was to give every Clevelander three doses of Sabin oral polio vaccine at monthly intervals between May and August. And Cleveland was reaching that goal with more dispatch than the city's sponsoring Academy of Medicine had considered possible.
Damnedest Jam. At each of the 92 vaccination centers, Boy Scouts put the sugar cubes into paper cups. Pharmacists doused the sugar with three drops of vaccine. As the vaccine ran low, ambulances (many donated by undertakers) with sirens screaming struggled through clogged streets to deliver fresh supplies. Said one...
Will it hurt me to take this stuff?" Told that he could take the vaccine without harm, he said: "I mean it's liquor I been drinking." Again he was reassured. One Clevelander asked for vaccine to take to a friend waiting in his car-already paralyzed by one...
One Step Further. Even before Cleveland began to gulp down the live-virus oral Sabin vaccine, killed-virus Salk vaccine had compiled an enviable record in suppressing polio. In the last seven years, Salk vaccine has cut Cleveland's polio to a total of 417 cases, compared with 3...
So far, more than 90% of Clevelanders have received the most important types of virus in their Sabin vaccine-types I and III. But when they get their third portion of Sabin vaccine (type II) in late July, they will have swallowed more than 4,500,000 doses at the...