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Chart of illnesses and deaths in the 1916 New York polio epidemic. On Saturday, June 17, 1916, an official announcement of the existence of an epidemic polio infection was made in Brooklyn, New York. Over the course of that year, there were over 27,000 cases and more than 6,000 deaths due to polio in the United States, with over 2,000 deaths in ...
President John F. Kennedy with the Boston Celtics, January 1963 Kennedy was a fan of Major League Baseball 's Boston Red Sox and the National Basketball Association 's Boston Celtics . [ 452 ] [ 453 ] Growing up on Cape Cod, Kennedy and his siblings developed a lifelong passion for sailing . [ 454 ]
Jonas Edward Salk (/ s ɔː l k /; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine. [2]
Kennedy, meanwhile, did not respond to written questions about whether he agrees with revoking approval of the IPOL polio vaccine, or if, as health and human services secretary, he would intervene ...
Siri filed the petition the same year health officials in New York stepped up vaccine campaigns against polio after a young unvaccinated adult was paralyzed by the infection and the virus turned ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, responded critically to a report in The New York Times that a key lawyer and longtime advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Thomas Francis Jr. (July 15, 1900 – October 1, 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk.
McConnell’s statement comes after a New York Times report revealed that an attorney linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to get rid of its approval of the ...