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“Every parent of every child should be grateful to those scientists who have been working without rest and without relief to find answers to the problem that caused the delay,” he said. Eisenhower also understood the urgency parents felt to get their children protected, and when early production problems delayed the delivery of the vaccine, he issued a statement urging patience but promising action. It wasn’t until 1955 that the first of those two vaccines-Salk’s-was approved, and President Dwight Eisenhower put the muscle of the federal government behind it, providing $30 million (almost $285 million in 2019 currency) to assist the states in distributing and administering the vaccine. The Birthday Ball committee soon became the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a research collective that included both Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, whose vaccines-Salk’s using a killed virus Sabin’s a live, weakened one-have brought polio to the brink of extinction.
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During the first full year of his presidency, 1934, he launched his annual tradition of Presidential Birthday Balls, which may have been framed as birthday celebrations for FDR, but whose true purpose was to raise funds for a national war on polio. The next, and easily the greatest of the presidential vaccine heroes was Franklin Roosevelt, who contracted infantile paralysis-or polio-in 1921. The law was designed to prevent the spread of counterfeit vaccines, authorize federal agents to distribute the genuine article, and ensure that it could be mailed around the country postage-free. James Madison, who began his presidency in 1809, followed Jefferson’s public-health lead, signing the Vaccine Act of 1813. A handful of Jefferson’s slaves were among the people to whom he administered the vaccine-and they surely did not have the freedom to object.
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As with so much involving the Founding Fathers, and this Founding Father in particular, Jefferson’s otherwise noble work was stained by its ignoble association with slavery. It began with Thomas Jefferson who, in August of 1800-shortly before his presidency began-helped conduct trials of the smallpox vaccine, developed four years earlier by British physician Edward Jenner. to head a vaccine safety commission-American presidents have had a long history of championing vaccination. Until the presidency of Donald Trump-who, from 2012 to 2014, posted a storm of tweets on the imaginary menace of vaccines and, after he was elected, publicly flirted with the idea of appointing RFK, Jr. “I am asking the American people to join in a nationwide vaccination program to stamp out these four diseases.”
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“There is no longer any reason why American children should suffer from polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, or tetanus,” Kennedy said in a message to Congress. As they write in their Politico story, the giant of the family, President John Kennedy, signed the Vaccine Assistance Act of 1962 into law, expanding the use of the relative handful of childhood vaccinations available at the time. Kathleen, Joe and Maeve are hardly the first Kennedys to be smart about vaccines. Kennedy, they wrote, “has helped to spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines.”
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Kennedy II, and his niece Maeve Kennedy McKean, sought to set him right. persists, and so his siblings Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Joseph P.