Dr. Strasburg’s comments about vaccination are valuable and accurate. I agree that without vaccines, the twentieth century would have been medically and socially a very different place. Yes, tens of thousands of deaths from vaccine-preventable disease would have occurred.
And, yes, there are still countries with polio outbreaks and countless fatalities from measles.
However, I disagree with some of Dr. Strasburg’s conclusions. There’s no polio in the Western Hemisphere and there have been no cases of wild polio in the...
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