George Pyle: 'It is frightening that now, a year and a half later after the vaccines first came out, an astonishingly low 63% of Utahns are fully vaccinated and a shamefully low 30% has received even one of the two boosters now recommended and available.'
In this Oct. 7, 1954, photo, Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, holds a rack of test tubes in his lab in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.In early 2021, when COVID-19 vaccines started rolling out, public health folks reasonably wondered how they were going to handle the expected flood of people seeking the jab. After months of illness and death, not to mention no school, remote work, no restaurants and no Jazz games, people would obviously jam the aisles and hallways of vaccination clinics.
The Salt Lake County Health Department wisely commandeered two of the community’s most cavernous structures, the Salt Palace Convention Center downtown and Sandy’s Mountain America Exposition Center, each with plenty of room for social distancing. Some public health planners may have read about the crowds that turned up in the 1950s and 1960s when vaccinations for polio became available.was basically a basketball court with an elevated stage at one end and bleachers the rest of the way around, but it was still the biggest building in the county. And, on at least on one day some time in the early 1960s, it was jam-packed with parents who had brought their children to get a sugar cube laced with the oral polio vaccine.
Those parents knew about the death and paralysis suffered by many thousands of people in waves in the early and middle 20th century. One of those parents was my father. He was struck by the virus when he was still a toddler in the late 1920s. He never was able to walk normally again. He endured multiple surgeries, most of which didn’t really help, and months flat on his back in a body cast.So, my reaction when I went for my first COVID jab at the Expo Center in March of 2021 was, ”Where the heck is everybody? Don’t they know there’s a pandemic on?”is the most transmissible yet. People are still getting sick, being hospitalized and dying.
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