It Is What It Is, Now Deal With It

Poliomyelitis or "polio" is a term deeply imbedded in the medical history of the United States. While this virus at times had a pandemic dimension and produced a variety of impacts on personal behaviors, lifestyle and even national policies, unlike the current pandemic it had a definitive and happy ending. However, this result was not the seemingly one-dimensional cure appropriately identified with breakthrough medical research personalized with the name Salk. It had another more personal and de