On Jan. 8, 1929, Dr. L.E. Bensom of Los Angeles used his vacation to mush to native villages in Alaska. At the close of a particularly hard day on the trail, he found himself with 70 patients on his hands, all suffering from smallpox. There were 100 people in the village with no medical facilities.
Vaccines delivered by drones and by burros. People who shout about the danger of vaccines and refuse to get a jab. Public health campaigns to convince the vaccine hesitant. Public criticism of a failure to provide vaccines for lower-income countries and marginalized populations.
These are all part of the unprecedented world vaccination campaign now going on.
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Nurses are seen in April preparing the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination centre in April in Seoul. South Korea, which was widely praised for its handling of the initial outbreaks of COVID-19, is facing mounting pressure to ramp up vaccination efforts.(Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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