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Can't Help Falling In Love With A Vaccine: How Polio Campaign Beat Vaccine Hesitancy

"Cases of polio may have peaked in the U.S. in 1952 with nearly 60,000 children infected. More than 3,000 died. (By comparison, roughly a year's worth of comparable statistics for the COVID-19 pandemic reveal more than 32 million reported cases in the U.S. so far and more than 573,000 deaths.) "

• 3,000/60,000 = 0.05 or 5% 

  • CDC : "The case fatality ratio for paralytic polio is generally 2% to 5% among children and up to 15% to 30% among adolescents and adults. It increases to 25% to 75% with bulbar involvement. "

• 573,000/32,000,000 = 0.0179 (about 1.8%)

  • COVID mortality differs by country -- Johns Hopkins

    • "per 100 confirmed cases (observed case-fatality ratio) or per 100,000 population (this represents a country’s general population, with both confirmed cases and healthy people)"

Read more about calculating mortality ratios during an ongoing pandemic - IFR vs CFR.