he's interviewed by bloomberg school of public health epidemiologist doctor emily gu. >> am soo happy to be talking with you today. >> obviously the themes in your book are very relevant what we are going through in the pandemic and i know you started writing the book around the time the pandemic began but where did the idea for the book come from? and why the book now? >> it came from the fact i am a child of the fifties i remember the polio epidemic and what i remember from that is how devastating it was it affected my mother we were not allowed to swim in a public pool. and he made it by rolling it m up and activating with a chemical. and then to induce the immune response and this is coming up now. and so i'm getting that. >> he was happy but nonetheless enduring polio season but nonetheless that is what was done so 420,021 —- 420,000 got the vaccine and then itcc was declared one year later safe and potent and effective. and then the church bells rin out and then to announce that over the voice of america saying that polio could be conquered how did we know was effective because

he's interviewed by bloomberg school of public health epidemiologist doctor emily gu. >> am soo happybe talking with you today. >> obviously the themes in your book are very relevant

he's interviewed by bloomberg school of public health epidemiologist doctor emily gu. >> doctor offit i'm so happy to be talking with you today. >> the pleasure is mine, thank you very much. >> obviously the themes in your book are very relevant to what we're going today in the pandemic and i know you said you started writing the book around the time the pandemic began but can you tell us where the idea for the book came from and why this book now? >> i think the emotion for this book actually came from thefact that i am a child of the 50s. i remember the polio epidemic . what i remember from that is one, how devastating and that yearly epidemic was. how much it affected my mother. we were not allowed to go to swim in a public pool. my aunt my two first cousins have these plastic pools in the back so salt made a polio vaccine and he made it by refining it and activating it with a chemical so you were inoculated with a whole guild poliovirus. it is a he vaccinated 700 children in the pittsburgh area and he found it to be safe and an immune response that he felt comfortable with being p

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