Sweet Meds

I'm out and around here lately, and while doing some grocery shopping, I run across some Sugar Cubes, and it reminds me of how Immunizations were administered to young people way back when, especially the Polio Vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk. Before the polio vaccine was even conceived, many schools had to close due to Polio going around. In many cases, if you had a severe case of polio, you were in an Iron Lung (this article from 2018 is one of the last)  In the mid-1950s, many baby boomers and people born during World War II  remember being given the vaccine on a sugar cube by their local Health Department and the nurse at their schools. Here in Detroit, the Health Department gave the vaccine to all children depending on which school they attended. Families went to either a Detroit High School or a branch of the Health Department to get their vaccines. With all going on nowadays about many people not vaccinating their children, it seems like many diseases, such as measles, mumps, whooping cough and other communicable diseases thought to be eradicated are now making a comeback. I remember when I was in middle and high school in the mid-1990s to early 2000s, many of my classmates were put out of school until their immunizations and/or Tetanus shots were up to date.