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The Polio Story: The Cure that Saved a Generation

Author: Lauren Rodriguez

The Polio Story Documentary

Day One (0:00 - 20:25)
Topic: The Polio Story Day 1
EQ: Discuss why the American public was so desperate to find a Polio Vaccine
Length: 3 pages Front & back

Include:
- Summer (Now vs. then)
- Polio Age Group
- Fear
- Unknowns/myths about Polio
- How Polio actually spreads
- What doctors DID know (Effects, Contagious, prognosis)
-Ronal Flynn's story
- Iron Lung
- FDR's Story
- The Iron Lung
- March of Dimes & Mother's March
- Advertising for March of Dimes
- Jonas Salk ("Typing", Live Poliovirus, his team, monkeys)
- Salk's belief to create Polio Vaccine
- Prototype vaccines (from 1930s)
- Criticism of Salk (Albert Saben)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE4ef0yQZRU

Day 2

Time: 20:26- End

Topic: Polio Story Day 2

EQ: Critique the ethical nature of Salk's three trials (tests)

Saben vs. Salk
Seben's Legitimate Concerns
Individual Protections vs. Heard Protection
Basel O'Conner
The Stakes/ motivation to find vaccine
Salk's First Trial (test)
- Participants (who?)
- "safety measure"
- Getting permission
- Salk's emotions
- results of tests/trails
Pittsburg School Study
- Participants (who?)
- How different than the first trial?
- Volunteers
- Martha Hunter's Story of the study
- Tommy's reaction to the study
- Sylvia Bussis' reaction
- Salk's reaction
- findings?
April 1954 Large Scale Studies:
- Participants
- Critics (Walter Winchell)
- Salk confronts critics
- Two disturbing decisions
- findings (results)
- The public's reaction to findings
Jonas Salk's new life
Vaccine for the people
Saben and Polio Vaccine
Polio today