LINING UP FOR A SHOT!

   TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2021

          LINING UP FOR A SHOT!

   Back in the old west the cattle drivers

would anxiously line up for a shot at the

bar after spending days on the trail. These

days the news is filled with stories of people

waiting in long lines to get another kind of

shot. The Covid vaccine! There was a lomg

line of kids waiting for a shot at the Arsonal

Elementary School in Pittsburgh. That was on

February 23rd of///..1954! They were the first

children to receive the Salk Polio vaccine!!

Polio was a dangerous disease causing

thousands of deaths and leaving thousands

of people, mainly children, paralyzed and on

breathing machines. Of course it's most famous

ictim was an adult. President Franklin D. Roosevelt!

Salk's injection was eventually replaced by an

oral vaccine developed by Dr. Bruce Sabin.

The resulyt of these vaccines was the elimination

of Polio in the United States and, for the most

part, around the world. We're hopeful the Covid

vaccine wil do the same for the pandemic virus/

It certainly seems worth a "shot!" Hope you're

well and that all your NEWS is good!