O, For a Vaccine!                                              < 😕 >  

    While we wait for a fast-tracked vaccine to fight COVID-19, here are some incredible vaccines of recent times. 

   Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine. Smallpox killed about 80 percent of children who contacted the disease, and 60 percent of adults. In the 20th century alone, smallpox killed more than 300 million people until it was eradicated worldwide in 1979. 

   Polio vaccine may have saved 10 million people from paralysis just since 1988, and prevented 500,000 deaths. 

   A global vaccination campaign for measles beginning in 2000 prevented about 23 million deaths by 2018. 

   Vaccines go through a longer and tougher process than most other drugs. 

World Health Organization,

in a Los Angeles Times editorial. 

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  No go for us        

sports junkies       No baseball

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 No March Madness             No Masters

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   No hockey                                  No Olympics

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  Hey! Where ya goin?                 It's called social distancing, bro

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