this lead to the polio vaccine. this is one person who reveres him. suzie. she was born with clubbed feet. it's now for spinal diseases. these were men put to work. you could go to a library and check out toys. these are three themes i identified. beauty, permanence. this is a minor's wife. she doesn't look like a dorothy lang photographer. i am sure she felt better. these are stair cases in new deal buildings. part of the idea, i think this is really an expression of the old arts and crafts movement, which elnor roosevelt was part it. this was a janitor, once he checked me out, he said, come on in, i have to show you something. there was a beautiful wood laid mosaic. this is a marble mosai c. this is at the national zoo. and there's the beautiful rock work. they didn't build porto potties. this is a restroom in yosemite. we discovered these above phoenix. then there's art work which celebrates people doing ordinary but indispensable stuff. this is up at timber line lodge. they were not used to seeing them or getting classes in journalism. they would get peo

polio before the polio vaccine came out.lso learned about how to interview people and about film, and and learned about the video editing things. >> thank you for talking with us today. >> thank you. >> and now, here is a portion of her documentary. >> institute that i direct, our top priorities over the next several years are an hiv vaccine, a tuberculosis vaccine, and a vaccine that we will call universal flu vaccine, namely a vaccine that you can give once or twice in the lifetime of an individual that will protect them against these. >> what do we do with them? they cannot produce enough of the vaccine for everyone. therefore, with the pharmaceutical companies. >> nih never produces a vaccine in large quantities. we do fundamental science and then handed over to the pharmaceutical company so that they can produce it in large quantities to be made available for the american people and for the global public. >> and you can see this at studentcam.org, and you can continue the conversation on our facebook and twitter pages.

in 1955, there was a polio vaccine. since the first vaccine was invented, it has been used in most of the world. we are still searching for a cure for many of the diseases in the world today. people search many hours a day for vaccinations that will help cover immune system fight off bad viruses. >> if you talk about the priority plan for the institute that i direct, which is the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, our top priorities over the next several years is an hiv vaccine, malaria, tuberculosis vaccines, and a universal flu vaccine, and namely one that you can give once or twice in the lifetime of an individual that will protect them against all influenza. >> the government cannot produce enough of a new vaccine for everyone. a partnership with pharmaceutical companies is being formed. >> our role is to do fundamental basic science translated at the clinical level and then handed over to a pharmaceutical company so they can produce it in large quantities to be made available for the american in

in 1955, jonas salk invented the polio vaccine. in 1967, there was the oral vaccine. been nearly extinguished from the u.s. and most of the world. now in 2011, we're still searching for a cure for many diseases in the world today. at the national institutes of health, people in search many hours a day for vaccinations that will help our immune systems against diseases. i talked to the head of a portion of the nih. >> if you talk about the priority plans for the institute are direct, the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, our top priority over the next several years are an hiv vaccine, a malaria vaccine, a tuberculosis vaccine, and a vaccine will be a universal influenza vaccine that you can give once or twice in a lifetime of an individual that will protect against all influenza. >> what do we do with the vaccines? the government cannot produce enough of the new vaccines for everyone. a partnership between the pharmaceutical companies and research facilities has formed. >> the nih never produces a vaccine in large quantities. our role is to do funda

it would be great to find an intern and say lay over the development and implementation of the polio vaccine, the current f.d.a. model. and figure out how many additional people would have gotten polio during the 15 years that we went through the process of checking it out. let's go comback and look at i. once a upon a time we were a country that made sense. we won the entire second world war in the first few months. they had a fifth runway in the atlanta airport. if we determine to be willfully stupid, we can be. so take that model. i want to outline for you, seven major steps to recentering the entire health system, starting a comment by elios when he was head of n.i.h. and he said, i think this is worth debating. this is the kind of debate we need the presidential campaign and it's the kind that we ought to have in academic centers. we saved approximately $1.4 trillion in health costs plus an enormous amount of pain, loss of life. he estimated that it was a 40-1 ratio. it is vastly more than what we got out of the stimulus. we're in position of people who decided and in a congressional bu

i learned about how the vaccines, the history of vaccines, like polio jonas salk, i learned about my great uncle who got polio the year before the polio vaccine came out, and how to interview people, i learned about film, and also about a video editing. >> thank you for talking with us today. and now, here's a portion of rebecca's documentary. >> you talk about the priority plan of the institutes that i direct, the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases, our top priorities over the next several years of an hiv vaccine, a malaria vaccine, a tuberculosis vaccine, and a vaccine that we call a universal flu vaccine, which you can give once or twice in the lifetime of an individual, that would protect them against all influences. >> the government cannot produce enough of the new vaccines for everyone. therefore partnership between the pharmaceutical companies in the research facilities have informed. >> we never produce a vaccine in large quantities. our role is to do fundamental basic science, translated into preclinical and clinical, and then handed over so that pharmace

the projected estimate was polio patient would cost $100 billion a year. salk developed vaccines.in 1953. and in 1954, 1.2 million people were vaccinated. i want you to take him of trying to get some of this at brookings because i don't have a staff. but in the great defining intern to say laid over the development and implementation of polio vaccine from the current fda model. and figure coming additional people would've gotten polio during the 15 years that we went to the process of checking it out. let's go back and look at it once upon a time we were a country that had commonsense. we won the entire second world war in three years in eight months. 44 months from pearl harbor to the surrender. if we're determined and be willfully stupid, we can be. but it is very expensive. so take that model and i want to now outline for you seven major steps to re- centering and rethinking the entire health system, starting with a comment when he was the head of nih in an interview and he said, i think this is what they but this is the kind of debate we need and u.s. congress, this is the kin

growing up as i did and as you did in the age of medical miracles i was just a little girl with the polio vaccine can along. there's always been an ally of six the as the six antibiotics, that is the medical norm now. people who have taken a vintage or haven't been disadvantaged because they have had access to this kind of care what i think assume that that is a good thing by you paint a sort of overall picture in your book that these things do have consequences because they've prolonged life beyond what our social network, social safety net work was able to provide or was created to provide >> well, that's true but all i think they have other consequences, too. as antibiotics, yes, the deutsch. people who would have died of pneumonia at 65 if they got a bad case of pneumonia don't anymore because there are antibiotics now with the older age group. but i think there's something else about medical miracles which creates a problem in thinking realistically about old age is things like my first medical memory standing in line for the vaccine, too. i am just old enough to remember life in the summer

i was just a little girl when the polio vaccine came along.re's always been antibiotics, fake hips, fake knees, medical transplants. that's the norm now. people who have taken advantage or not been disadvantaged because they had access to this kind of care, what i think assuming that that is, you know, a good thing, but you pay sort of -- paint an overall picture in your book that these things have consequences because they prolong life beyond what our social network, our social safety net worth was created to provide. >> guest: well, that's true, but i think they have -- they have other consequences too. in antiby yachtics, people who would have died at pneumonia at 65 don't anymore because there's antiby yachtics, -- antibiotics. my first medical memory is standing in line for the vaccine too. i'm just old enough to remember life in the summer before the salt vaccine in the early 50s when your parents never let you go out to go swimming because they were so terrified of polio. that was eradicated overnight. because we've grown up amid these

the projected estimate was polio patient would cost $100 billion a year. salk developed vaccines. he had the courage to give to his own family in 1953. and in 1954, 1.2 million people were vaccinated. i want you to take him of trying to get some of this at brookings because i don't have a staff. but in the great defining intern to say laid over the development and implementation of polio vaccine from the current fda model. and figure coming additional people would've gotten polio during the 15 years that we went to the process of checking it out. let's go back and look at it once upon a time we were a country that had commonsense. we won the entire second world war in three years in eight months. 44 months from pearl harbor to the surrender. if we're determined and be willfully stupid, we can be. but it is very expensive. so take that model and i want to now outline for you seven major steps to re- centering and rethinking the entire health system, starting with a comment when he was the head of nih in an interview and he said, i think this is what they but this is the kind of deb

vaccine that was very, very effective. the second disease that we hope, that the world can't eliminate is polio. again, that's been achieved with the generosity of foreign aid, almost a billion dollars a year spent on the polio eradication campaign, and the use of the vaccine. and the good news is that we've gone from over 300,000 children a year he paralyzed, to net only about 3000. and we only have four countries left where the disease has not been eliminated, and with any sort of continued financing in the next three or four years, we will succeed in getting the number of cases down to zero. that would be a very exciting thing. what's incredible is almost all the things that kill children are vaccine preventable. now, in some cases we still have to invent the vaccine like in the case of malaria, and some of the other diseases. in other cases the vaccines exist. they are simply being given only to reach children in the world, which is somewhat ironic given that these diseases are far more present, diarrhea and respiratory diseases, and the poor countries. a group called coffee was great to buy

vaccinating feel very emotional. for my generation i think i don't know people who were in iron lungs because of polio. before i started this book i didn't know children who had died of whipping cough. my experience with chickenpox and measles was that it was something that was not fun but not potentially life-threatening. as fears of those became more notional concerns about vaccines rise and the last thing i think is the medical community and the public health community have done a very poor job at communicating what vaccines do, hardware work, communicating risk. there is a risk of negative reactions with vaccines. parents are smart enough to know there's a risk with anything. when they are told this is effective, don't worry about it, people's warning flags go off. the fact that there's not a risk for autism doesn't mean your child won't have a high fever. there are number of reasons. the somali case is interesting in that the measles outbreak in minnesota is in the somali community. in your work did you look at other communities? other cultures within the united states that were analogous to what

vaccines, there were few ways to help protect against deadly illnesses. diseases like measles -- meningitis -- diphtheria -- hib -- whooping cough -- or polio, which killed my grandma's youngest son. without vaccines, these threats can re-emerge. i'm here -- i'm here -- i'm here to tell my children to help protect their children. get your kids vaccinated and keep them on schedule. i never want my grandchildren to see what i saw.

vaccines, there were few ways to help protect against deadly illnesses. diseases like measles -- meningitis -- diphtheria -- hib -- whooping cough -- or polio, which killed my grandma's youngest son. without vaccines, these threats can re-emerge. i'm here -- i'm here -- i'm here to tell my children to help protect their children. get your kids vaccinated and keep them on schedule. i never want my grandchildren to see what i saw.