Vaccines Then & Now: The Polio Pioneer

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    🕮    Linda Elovitz Marshall was excited to get her COVID-19 shot, and back in the day she was glad to be vaccinated for polio too. That gratitude led her to create the picture book biography The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine illustrated by Lisa Anchin, a 2020 Sydney Taylor Notable Book. Listen to our wide-ranging conversation about polio, COVID, writing, Passover, and baby lambs.

LEARN MORE:

• Linda Elovitz Marshall's website
• Buy The Polio Pioneer at Bookshop.org 
• Buy The Passover Lamb at Indiebound.org
  
• The Salk Institute
• "Race and the Politics of Polio" in the American Journal of Public Health 
• Ritualwell and Central Reform Congregation's COVID blessings
  
• CDC information on COVID-19 vaccines
  

CREDITS:

• Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
• Theme Music: The Freilachmakers Klezmer String Band
• Facebook Discussion Group: Jewish Kidlit Mavens
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Photo: Heidi Rabinowitz, proud recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine