Hope, Through History: Episode 3 | The Polio Epidemic

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Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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From the late 19th to mid 20th centuries, the nation lived in fear of the polio virus. Often handicapping or paralyzing its victims, sometimes resulting in death, the disease was made all the more frightening by the fact that it preyed on young children. Generations of Americans were affected by this incurable illness until a brilliant young medical researcher, empowered by the coordinated efforts of public and private institutions, developed a miraculous vaccine. The expert knowledge and first-hand experiences of Walter Isaacson, David Oshinsky and Geoff Ward, assist Jon Meacham in telling a story which begins with debilitating fear and ends with everlasting hope. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sports Media is filled with an endless stream of personalities, stories, and gossip, and I'm here to cover it all.
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0:50.4	a presentation of Odyssey in partnership with Puck, wherever you get your podcasts. It came in summer with rising temperatures, longer days, and fresh hopes.
1:18.0	A season that was supposed to be a dyllic, especially for children, was transformed into a time of terror, of illness, of paralysis,
1:28.7	and all too often of death.
1:34.0	In New York in the middle of July 1916, amid a terrible outbreak in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
1:42.4	Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana
1:47.0	that would afflict 27,000 Americans and kill 7,000.
1:52.4	The New York Times wrote of the real life nightmare of a father whose son was succumbing to polio meelitis,
1:59.0	popularly called polio.
2:03.7	Unable to obtain a physician, the Times reported, he put the boy into an automobile and drove to the hospital.
2:11.0	But the child died on the way and the doctors would not receive the body.
2:16.7	He drove around Staten Island with the boy's body for hours, looking for someone who would receive it.
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