The Army That Eradicated Polio
04/18/25 • 9 min
For Shop Talk, Tom Purcell celebrates the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine.
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For Shop Talk, Tom Purcell celebrates the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine.
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An Army of Normal Folks - The Army That Eradicated Polio
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Shop Talk number forty nine. I am not Bill Courtney. Guys,
Speaker 1this is Alex Cortez. I failed and my duties as a producer to get enough shop Talks from Bill. He has been out of town for three weeks and we did not get enough of them, so you were stuck with me. Good luck, y'all. But thankfully this week for shop Talk, we actually have a great story from a nationally syndicated columnist named Tom Pur
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