Sunday marks World Polio Day amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say we can learn from the highly infectious disease that spread in the first half of the 20th century in the same ways COVID-19 is transmitted now. Kristen Robinson explains how a polio disaster helped shape vaccine safety.
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