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Elvis Presley Got Vaccinated So You d Get Vaccinated
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Back in 1956, Elvis Presley received a polio inoculation on the set of the Ed Sullivan Show just before going onstage to perform. The photo op hoped to encourage skeptical Americans to embrace the vaccine, and by all accounts, it worked. Presley’s influence is thought to have dramatically shifted attitudes in the vaccine’s favor, particularly among the nation’s rock ‘n’ roll crazed youth.
The Elvis polio photo op is an early example of a continuing trend in public health publicity, as Norman Vanamee noted in a recent