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What The Polio Vaccines Can Teach Us About The COVID Ones

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-12/anti-vaccine-polio-iron-lung
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/p/polio-poliomyelitis.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/14/cutter-polio-vaccine-paralyzed-children-coronavirus/
https://thevaccinereaction.org/2016/06/bernice-eddy-warned-of-defective-salk-polio-vaccine/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/65/22/10273
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.html
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22

Prior to the 1950s, paralytic polio was a scourge.  FDR was crippled
from it while in his 30s, the March of Dimes was started to combat it,
and photos of rows and rows of children in iron lungs were common in
the media.  From this situation, vaccines were developed to combat the
disease.
Iron Lung (Image: Library of Congress via Picryl, public domain)

Polio is caused by one of three types of poliovirus that can cause
paralysis and death.  In the 1950s, two vaccines were independently
developed to combat it, one by Jonas Salk and the other by Albert
Sabin.  Polio was eradicated, and today those vaccines are thought of
as miracle drugs.  But were they?

In the early 1950s, Salk was the first to come out with a vaccine.
His was designed to treat all three polio viruses at once.  His
approach seemed basic enough.  It was to grow polioviruses in the lab,
kill them, and then inject healthy children with the dead viruses.
The idea was that the dead viruses could not reproduce, so they could
not harm the children.  The children's immune system, however, would
detect the injected viruses and produce effective antibodies against
them, thus creating immunity against polio.

Just prior to beginning mass inoculations, samples of the Salk vaccine
were sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for safety
testing.

There, when bacteriologist Dr. Bernice Eddy injected the vaccine into
her monkeys, some of them fell down paralyzed.  She concluded that the
virus was not entirely dead as promised.  Instead, the virus was
active and could reproduce in its host.  Eddy sounded the alarm and
presented her findings.  A debate ensued in the corridors of power.
Advocates for caution were overruled, and the mass inoculation
proceeded on schedule.

The inoculation of children began in 1955.  Within days, some injected
children were coming down with polio.  Some were even spreading the
disease to family members.  Subsequent investigations determined that
the vaccine had caused 40,000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children
with varying degrees of paralysis and ten dead.  Alton Ochsner, a
professor of surgery at Tulane Medical School, was such a strong
proponent of proceeding with the inoculation program that he gave
vaccine injections to his grandchildren to prove that it was safe.
Ochsner's grandson died from polio a few months later, and his
granddaughter contracted polio but survived.

This fiasco has become known as the Cutter incident.  It's named after
the manufacturer of the vaccine.  The vaccine was recalled and
retested for safety, but the damage had already been done in the mind
of the public.

Let's continue to the second version of the polio vaccine, the Sabin.

In 1957, inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and live but weakened
oral poliovirus vaccines (OPV) were prepared in primary cell cultures
derived from rhesus monkey kidneys.

According to the American Association for Cancer Research, it was
later determined that the vaccines made from these cultures were
contaminated with the infectious cancer-causing virus SV40.  The
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention estimates that up to 30
percent of the polio vaccines administered from 1957 to 1963 contained
this cancer-causing monkey virus.  Dr. Eddy was involved in the
discovery of that, too, despite being shunted off to other research
after her first discovery.

Did this result in a cancer epidemic?  Some believe that it did, as
there was a sharp rise in soft tissue cancer in the following decades.
The medical establishment disagrees, saying only a "small" number of
cancer cases can be traced to the polio vaccines.  In any event, it
was a fact that a cancer-causing virus was present in the polio
vaccines and that the government kept the public in the dark.  This
was done to avoid mass hysteria and to prevent the wrecking of the
public's confidence in medicine and vaccines in particular.

One result of the damage caused by these initial polio vaccines is
that strict new safety regulations and procedures were instituted.
Also, legislation was passed to exempt vaccine manufacturers from
civil damages due to the side-effects of their vaccines.  42 U.S. Code
300aa-22 — Standard of responsibility states: "No vaccine manufacturer
shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a
vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of
a vaccine after October 1, 1988."

Polio is practically unknown today.  But is that because of the
vaccines or other factors?  Note, polio is spread by contact with
infected feces, which often happens from poor hand-washing.  It can be
spread from eating or drinking contaminated food or water.  In some
cases, it can be spread when an infected person coughs or sneezes
infected droplets into the air.  It would seem that as hygiene
improved and sanitation got better, polio would diminish.  This was
all known in the 1950s.

Whatever the case, a takeaway lesson from the early polio vaccines is
that haste makes waste.  Back then, those vaccines were rushed out to
the public without being adequately tested due to panic over the
disease.  One has to wonder if the same sort of thing isn't happening
today with the COVID vaccines.  There are similarities between what
happened then and what's unfolding now, chief among them political
pressure for a magic-bullet cure.  Is it possible or even likely that
political pressure has compromised the safety protocols and standard
procedures at the FDA and Big Pharma which are there to ensure only
safe vaccines are issued for public use?  Time will tell.