Vaccination

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• SOURCE: WEMU
  4/12/2021
  

  U-M Medical Historian Says It Appears History Is Repeating Itself In Our Current Pandemic

  Medical Historian Alex Navarro warns that resistance to vaccines and public health measures are likely to prolong the COVID pandemic the way they did the 1919 influenza. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  4/9/2021
  

  The First ‘Vaccine Passports’ Were Scars from Smallpox Vaccinations

  Faced with unreliable and falsifiable documentation, public health authorities at the turn of the 20th century demanded physical proof of vaccination: the scarring left by the early technique, says smallpox historian Michael Willrich.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4/12/2021
  

  How US History Explains Vaccine Passport Skepticism

  Opposition to requiring documentary proof of vaccination to participate in some activities is rooted both in the weak traditions of public health in the United States and legitimate fears that such "passports" will work to disadvantage the poor, minorities, and others who are less able to access vaccination. 

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• SOURCE: ABC 10
  3/21/2021
  

  Historian Brooke Newman on the Front Lines of COVID Vaccination

  Historian Brooke Newman, after careful research, is allowing her daughter to participate in the a trial of a vaccine, already tested for teens, on younger children. They cite the personal desire to return to normalcy, the documented safety of the vaccine in earlier trials, and advancing the collective cause of public health in their decision.

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• 3/14/2021
  

  Remembering the Father of Vaccination

  by Richard Gunderman

  "Whether or not Jenner truly saved more lives than any other person, there is no doubt that his pioneering work on immunization laid the groundwork for today’s most effective tool against COVID-19, the vaccine."

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• SOURCE: Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast
  3/2/2021
  

  The 1976 Swine Flu Fiasco

  David Parsons of the "Nostalgia Trap" history podcast joins Mass For Shut-Ins to discuss the Swine Flue vaccine fiasco and how its history has been abused by today's anti-vax movement.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/23/2021
  

  Having Vaccines Alone isn’t Enough to Defeat COVID-19

  by Joyce Chaplin

  Early efforts at smallpox innoculation showed the importance of social and political factors in making new medical technologies effective. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/2021
  

  Five Past Vaccine Drives and How They Worked

  "Scientists developed vaccines less than a year after Covid-19 was identified, a reflection of remarkable progress in vaccine technology. But progress in vaccine distribution is another story."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/1/2021
  

  The Key to Combating Conspiracy Theories about Coronavirus Vaccines

  by Cameron Givens

  Historical knowledge of the roots of misinformation about viruses and vaccination will be essential to overcoming it. 

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• SOURCE: Fortune
  1/17/2021
  

  The COVID-19 Vaccination Drive May be Slow—But it’s Already Faster than Any in History

  Public Health historian Jason Schwartz suggests that discontent about the pace of vaccination is due to the Trump administration's politically motivated and unrealistic promises. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/14/2020
  

  The Great Polio Vaccine Mess and the Lessons it Holds about Federal Coordination for Today’s COVID-19 Vaccination Effort

  by Bert Spector

  The introduction of the Salk polio vaccination offers lessons for governments trying to roll out a coronavirus vaccine in a climate of mistrust and poor distribution infrastructure. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/15/2020
  

  Years of Medical Abuse Make Black Americans Less Likely to Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine

  by Dan Royles

  There is a long and continuous history of mistreatment of African Americans by the American medical establishment. This legacy is responsible for many Black Americans' mistrust of a coronavirus vaccine. Good public health practice in vulnerable communities requires addressing this history.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/13/2020
  

  Vaccinated? Show Us Your App

  Medical historian Michael Willrich says that the prospect of smartphone-based credentialing to demonstrate an individual has been vaccinated is potentially invasive of privacy and the control of health data by private interests. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/8/2020
  

  How Americans Came to Distrust Science

  by Andrew Jewett

  Scientists and their supporters cannot overcome the current moment of hostility toward their profession and rejection of their expertise unless they confront the cultural history of skepticism toward science, in both conservative and liberal forms. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/2/2020
  

  Gerald Ford Rushed Out a Vaccine. It Was a Fiasco

  by Rick Perlstein

  If steady, mature Gerald Ford succumbed to haste when his presidency was on the line, imagine what Donald Trump will do.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/2020
  

  This Montana Farm Boy Became a Scientific Legend, Developing Vaccines to Protect Kids Worldwide

  Maurice Hilleman helped develop vaccines that have saved millions of children from death from contagious disease.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2020
  

  A Puritan Minister Incited Fury by Pushing Inoculation Against a Smallpox Epidemic

  In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal with a terror that bordered on hysteria.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/2020
  

  The Case for a Free or Inexpensive Coronavirus Vaccine

  by Deborah Levine

  Jonas Salk understood that his polio vaccine was a common good. We should follow his lead.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-16-16
  

  Story of the Week: The man who developed a vaccination for smallpox

  by Andrew George

  Was his smallpox experiment really unethical?

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• 3-18-15
  

  When Did Mandatory Vaccinations Become Common?

  by Cristina Valldejuli

  Anti-Vaxxers are upset with mandatory Measles vaccinations. But mandatory vaccinations have a long history in the United States.