As Covid vaccine conflict continues, Dr. Wadman explains history of vaccines that saved our parents and grandparents.   

Omicron arrived in America this week. It is a new Covid-19 variant, one which President Biden says is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. Regardless, the President, the CDC and other health care professionals and institutions are encouraging Americans, as they have been for months now, to get vaccinated.  To better understand what the world was like when there were no vaccines, and what happened when vaccines were developed, such as polio and rubella vaccines, we spoke with Dr. Meredith Wadman. In addition, she provided some perspective for us, from her own medical experience, about countries in which vaccines were (and still are) unavailable. Dr. Wadman is a staff reporter at the journal Science and has written for Nature, Fortune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease. This is a direct link to Dr. Wadman's homepage: http://meredithwadman.com/the-vaccine-race/   

I hope you enjoy this episode and gain some perspective about America's past interest to get vaccinated. 

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