copperbadge:This is a newspaper photo of John, a second-grade student in Oberlin, Ohio, and Ann, a f
copperbadge:This is a newspaper photo of John, a second-grade student in Oberlin, Ohio, and Ann, a first-grade student at the same school, receiving their Polio vaccines in April 1955.“I distinctly remember being so upset as a 5-year-old because I was not allowed to have any cotton candy because, of course, polio was airborne, and they said no cotton candy,” she said. “So the plus of getting the vaccine was then the next summer I had cotton candy.”This is husband and wife John and Ann Molyneaux, age 73 and 72, shortly after getting their second dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine together, again, 66 years later. The first thing they did after passing the two-week mark after their second dose was a road trip to visit their grandkids, since they hadn’t seen some of the kids in 15 months. It was one of the first feelings of normalcy, they said.Full story at the Tribune here.[Description: Top image, a yellowed black-and-white image from a newspaper, showing an elderly man vaccinating a young boy, with a young girl standing nearby and watching. Bottom image, two older people holding the newspaper the image comes from, which has a prominent headline “326 Youngers Get Polio Shots”. Both people are grey-haired and smiling.] -- source link
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