School of Public Health epidemiologist doctor emily gu. Doctor offit im so happy to be talking with you today. The pleasure is mine, thank you very much. Obviously the themes in your book are very relevant to what were going today in the pandemic and i know you said you started writing the book around the time the pandemic began but can you tell us where the idea for the book came from and why this book now . I think the emotion for this book actually came from thefact that i am a child of the 50s. I remember the polio epidemic. What i remember from that is one, how devastating and that yearly epidemic was. How much it affected my mother. We were not allowed to go to swim in a public pool. My aunt my two First Cousins have these plastic pools in the back so salt made a polio vaccine and he made it by refining it and activating it with a chemical so you were inoculated with a whole guild poliovirus. It is a he vaccinated 700 children in the pittsburgh area and he found it to be safe and
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