Though the medical community was skeptical, an ambitious 30-something named Dr. (For the record, in 1935 two polio vaccines were announced by two separate research teams, one led by Maurice Brodie and another by John Kolmer, both of which were announced at a major conference of the American Public Health Association in November 1935, but both of which were quickly shelved because vaccinated children had died in clinical trials.) In 1949, O’Connor went further still, upping the ante by pouring yet more research dollars into the search for a vaccine. But the push by the federal government began many years earlier, namely in January 1938 when a tenacious Irish lawyer named Basil O’Connor became President Franklin Roosevelt’s point man to wage war on the disease, including through the creation of the March of Dimes. Salk’s polio vaccine was announced to the world in April 1955. That vaccine, too, like those today, involved the government getting behind private research efforts that needed mass infusions of public sector dollars. Polio terrified people of that era it was known as “infantile paralysis.” What people right now should realize, given the incredible speed of the COVID vaccine development - in retrospect, “warp speed” was spot-on language - is how long it took for the polio vaccine to develop. Considering that comparison really helps us to understand what a big deal Operation Warp Speed has been. Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1950s. I want to underscore the point by revisiting what I wrote about in several columns here in The American Spectator last spring, most notably placing President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed into historical context - looking particularly at the polio vaccine that was pioneered by Dr. And let there be no doubt: the swiftness of the development and delivery of these vaccines is a remarkable achievement. We are now full-throttle into the mass distribution of vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic. It fails to recognize a truly historic accomplishment by Trump and the biomedical community. It’s yet more rancorous, toxic, bitter partisanship, by a media that claims to be objective.
Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s going to do that, and the terribly biased liberal media certainly will not be stepping up with any awards for the dreaded MAGA man. In fact, it would be a great gesture of unity - the very unity that President Biden says he seeks, and a gesture of goodwill and decency that Trump advocates would remember appreciatively - if Biden paused to more deliberately thank and recognize Trump’s efforts.
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