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Elvis and the vaccine antipolio
Today in Romania at the TV post called Digi 24 was posted many times a story about Elvis in 1956 regarding his anti polio vaccine. It was said that only 0,6% US citizens accepted the vaccine until Elvis appeared on TV and promoted the vaccine. They said that after 6 month, because of Elvis, 80% of US citizens accepted the anti polio vaccine. Does anybody know more details about this story?
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Yes this was the "March of dimes" campaign, it's quite well known that Elvis was involved I think.
http://www.elvisechoesofthepast.com/elvis-and-march-of-dimes-charity-work-in-the-50s/
http://www.elvisechoesofthepast.com/elvis-and-march-of-dimes-charity-work-in-the-50s/
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Besides the terrific Echoesofthepast article, this Cambridge University clip is also nice to watch:
Guardian article (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/24/elvis-presley-polio-vaccine-world-immunisation-week
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Besides the terrific Echoesofthepast article, this Cambridge University clip is also nice to watch:
Guardian article (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/24/elvis-presley-polio-vaccine-world-immunisation-week
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jurasic1968 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:28 pmToday in Romania at the TV post called Digi 24 was posted many times a story about Elvis in 1956 regarding his anti polio vaccine. It was said that only 0,6% US citizens accepted the vaccine until Elvis appeared on TV and promoted the vaccine. They said that after 6 month, because of Elvis, 80% of US citizens accepted the anti polio vaccine. Does anybody know more details about this story?
That 80% statistic is bunk. Elvis did not appear on TV to promote any vaccine, but he did do PR work that was seen in newspaper reports. He was one of many celebrities in 1956-1957 who helped promote the idea of the Salk vaccine as a preventative for polio. Dr. Jonas Salk created the vaccine after years of research, and it was announced as safe on April 12, 1955.
You do not see Elvis Presley's name mentioned on either of these Wikipedia pages about the vaccine, and that's not an oversight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
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The vaccinations took place at the CBS Studios on the same day (October 28th 1956) as the rehearsals and press conference for the Ed Sullivan show.
Perhaps this is where the link with TV publicity came from.
The source of this information and pictures is “The Wild One ‘56” pages 151-207.
There are many great pictures in this section of the book, here are just a few.
Perhaps this is where the link with TV publicity came from.
The source of this information and pictures is “The Wild One ‘56” pages 151-207.
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Wow! These last 4 pictures were showed in the Digi 24 News TV channel in Romania yesterday. Thank you very much for posting these great photos!
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I do wonder what Elvis was doing in that last photo. Was he playing “air bass guitar”? I wonder if music was playing, if so what? Something with a prominent bass?
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Sorry for the poor quality, I will see if I can scan the book rather than use the phone.jurasic1968 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 4:56 pmWow! These last 4 pictures were showed in the Digi 24 News TV channel in Romania yesterday. Thank you very much for posting these great photos!
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If the vaccine was pronounced safe on April 12, 1955, then why the biggest scandals in the history of vaccinations started taking place later that SAME month, on April 29, 1955, at Tulane University, in an advocacy being organized in front of their entire Board of Medicine. They tried to cover it up, but the NYT just had to print it on May 5, 1955. Guess where the then 20 year old Elvis was?drjohncarpenter wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 2:14 amjurasic1968 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:28 pmToday in Romania at the TV post called Digi 24 was posted many times a story about Elvis in 1956 regarding his anti polio vaccine. It was said that only 0,6% US citizens accepted the vaccine until Elvis appeared on TV and promoted the vaccine. They said that after 6 month, because of Elvis, 80% of US citizens accepted the anti polio vaccine. Does anybody know more details about this story?
That 80% statistic is bunk. Elvis did not appear on TV to promote any vaccine, but he did do PR work that was seen in newspaper reports. He was one of many celebrities in 1956-1957 who helped promote the idea of the Salk vaccine as a preventative for polio. Dr. Jonas Salk created the vaccine after years of research, and it was announced as safe on April 12, 1955.
You do not see Elvis Presley's name mentioned on either of these Wikipedia pages about the vaccine, and that's not an oversight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/05/archives/bulbar-polio-kills-doctors-grandson.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/14/cutter-polio-vaccine-paralyzed-children-coronavirus/
When the March of Dimes asked Elvis to do a similar advocacy, 18 M0NTHS LATER, teens was one group that wasnt buying the idea. That changed when the news that Elvis had tried it. was published in 1,300 newspapers. By Apil of 1957, Dr Salk knew the immunization level had reached 80% yet he cautiusly waited until October 24, 1957, to confirm it.
READ THIS.
https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?institutionId=0&user=0&id=180773824&width=557&height=404&crop=2918_128_1742_1289&rotation=0&brightness=0&contrast=0&invert=0&ts=1588565751&h=d61f91a1a7ca392b8010acbf71211c9b
As to Wikipedia, check Dr Baumgartners page. She was the one who came up with the idea of shooting Presley. She knew Elvis was very much liked (the ratings from 9 September 1956 had to have made an impression on her, after all as much as a little over third of the US population watched him that night, inspite of the fact the host was nowhere to be found).
No other entertainer no matter how many times he or she were photograohed advocating the vaccine in 1956, in 1955, or whenever, could compete vis a vis teens, with the popularity of a youngter himself who was watched by 60,710,000 million viewers in a single night., Even if a full ad would be shown in 1,600 theaters across America, in an entire weekend, thrice a day that would be about, well, about 35 million people watching it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Baumgartner
https://www.google.com/search?ei=M6vAX_yaKM7y5gL6mJyABw&q=us+population+in+1956&oq=us+ppultion+in+1956&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgQIABANOgQIABBHUIkfWIkfYOYvaABwAXgAgAF9iAF9kgEDMC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab
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As to the Salk Institute, why would they THEMSELVES advertise these banners, one of them hanging in the outside walls of the Smithsonian, if Elvis, WHO APPEARS IN IT, hadnt been the one amongst the entertainers whose advocacy was the most effective with one particularly LARGE age group, teens. Do you know how many teens lived in America in 1956? Do your homework., Morover, do you see any other entertainers in this banner_ And if you do, who do you see?
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Thank a lot, Jaime1234. I watched a few days ago a documentary on the TV Channel Viasat History about Dr. Salk, regarding the anti polio vaccine and how hard he had to fight on TV with the critics (including many doctors).
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Is there a vaccine for this maniacal drivel?
Jaime1234 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 9:33 amIf the vaccine was pronounced safe on April 12, 1955, then why the biggest scandals in the history of vaccinations started taking place later that SAME month, on April 29, 1955, at Tulane University, in an advocacy being organized in front of their entire Board of Medicine. They tried to cover it up, but the NYT just had to print it on May 5, 1955. Guess where the then 20 year old Elvis was?
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/05/archives/bulbar-polio-kills-doctors-grandson.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/14/cutter-polio-vaccine-paralyzed-children-coronavirus/
When the March of Dimes asked Elvis to do a similar advocacy, 18 M0NTHS LATER, teens was one group that wasnt buying the idea. That changed when the news that Elvis had tried it. was published in 1,300 newspapers. By Apil of 1957, Dr Salk knew the immunization level had reached 80% yet he cautiusly waited until October 24, 1957, to confirm it.
READ THIS.
https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?institutionId=0&user=0&id=180773824&width=557&height=404&crop=2918_128_1742_1289&rotation=0&brightness=0&contrast=0&invert=0&ts=1588565751&h=d61f91a1a7ca392b8010acbf71211c9b
As to Wikipedia, check Dr Baumgartners page. She was the one who came up with the idea of shooting Presley. She knew Elvis was very much liked (the ratings from 9 September 1956 had to have made an impression on her, after all as much as a little over third of the US population watched him that night, inspite of the fact the host was nowhere to be found).
No other entertainer no matter how many times he or she were photograohed advocating the vaccine in 1956, in 1955, or whenever, could compete vis a vis teens, with the popularity of a youngter himself who was watched by 60,710,000 million viewers in a single night., Even if a full ad would be shown in 1,600 theaters across America, in an entire weekend, thrice a day that would be about, well, about 35 million people watching it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Baumgartner
https://www.google.com/search?ei=M6vAX_yaKM7y5gL6mJyABw&q=us+population+in+1956&oq=us+ppultion+in+1956&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgQIABANOgQIABBHUIkfWIkfYOYvaABwAXgAgAF9iAF9kgEDMC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab
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As to the Salk Institute, why would they THEMSELVES advertise these banners, one of them hanging in the outside walls of the Smithsonian, if Elvis, WHO APPEARS IN IT, hadnt been the one amongst the entertainers whose advocacy was the most effective with one particularly LARGE age group, teens. Do you know how many teens lived in America in 1956? Do your homework., Morover, do you see any other entertainers in this banner_ And if you do, who do you see?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHpoWrM-MYDgqAQ9r-E3-Mm5J_1KdRKamSVQ&usqp=CAU
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CNN is your favourite....And they just publisged this OPINION piece, today. Incidentally, I already told the author the error, namely that it wasnt televised. But the rest is truedrjohncarpenter wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:21 pmIs there a vaccine for this maniacal drivel?
Jaime1234 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 9:33 amIf the vaccine was pronounced safe on April 12, 1955, then why the biggest scandals in the history of vaccinations started taking place later that SAME month, on April 29, 1955, at Tulane University, in an advocacy being organized in front of their entire Board of Medicine. They tried to cover it up, but the NYT just had to print it on May 5, 1955. Guess where the then 20 year old Elvis was?
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/05/archives/bulbar-polio-kills-doctors-grandson.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/14/cutter-polio-vaccine-paralyzed-children-coronavirus/
When the March of Dimes asked Elvis to do a similar advocacy, 18 M0NTHS LATER, teens was one group that wasnt buying the idea. That changed when the news that Elvis had tried it. was published in 1,300 newspapers. By Apil of 1957, Dr Salk knew the immunization level had reached 80% yet he cautiusly waited until October 24, 1957, to confirm it.
READ THIS.
https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?institutionId=0&user=0&id=180773824&width=557&height=404&crop=2918_128_1742_1289&rotation=0&brightness=0&contrast=0&invert=0&ts=1588565751&h=d61f91a1a7ca392b8010acbf71211c9b
As to Wikipedia, check Dr Baumgartners page. She was the one who came up with the idea of shooting Presley. She knew Elvis was very much liked (the ratings from 9 September 1956 had to have made an impression on her, after all as much as a little over third of the US population watched him that night, inspite of the fact the host was nowhere to be found).
No other entertainer no matter how many times he or she were photograohed advocating the vaccine in 1956, in 1955, or whenever, could compete vis a vis teens, with the popularity of a youngter himself who was watched by 60,710,000 million viewers in a single night., Even if a full ad would be shown in 1,600 theaters across America, in an entire weekend, thrice a day that would be about, well, about 35 million people watching it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Baumgartner
https://www.google.com/search?ei=M6vAX_yaKM7y5gL6mJyABw&q=us+population+in+1956&oq=us+ppultion+in+1956&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgAMgQIABANOgQIABBHUIkfWIkfYOYvaABwAXgAgAF9iAF9kgEDMC4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab
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As to the Salk Institute, why would they THEMSELVES advertise these banners, one of them hanging in the outside walls of the Smithsonian, if Elvis, WHO APPEARS IN IT, hadnt been the one amongst the entertainers whose advocacy was the most effective with one particularly LARGE age group, teens. Do you know how many teens lived in America in 1956? Do your homework., Morover, do you see any other entertainers in this banner_ And if you do, who do you see?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHpoWrM-MYDgqAQ9r-E3-Mm5J_1KdRKamSVQ&usqp=CAU
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/03/opinions/covid-vaccinel-leadership-elvis-presley-perry/index.html
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Before all his great watches, there was this one h wore that day, , a 1956 18k gold Hamilton ELECTRIC watch which could, today, go for one hunded times the price of everything CBS had on the set that night. LOL Its whereabouts are unknown.
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He had started that day with a goodwill action for the ages. Here is the text of the telegram sent to Diane Pichler, a then 13-year-old girl dying of cancer and weighing only 42 pounds. Her prognosis was so bleak that, as a Roman Catholic, she had already received last rites. She underwent 16 operations and ultimately endured. The telegram was sent at almost 5 am , October 28, 1956. He was so EARNEST, as a person, that he promised her to sing to her and his millions of fans but made no attempt to "implicate" her during the actual broadcast. But she knew he was singing to her,
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Imagine being in such dire state in a hospital bed and then see this...
21 years later, Diane, by then 34 years old and in perfect health tells her story to the press on the day of Elvis' death, August 16, 1977. The article appeared on the 18th.
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Imagine being in such dire state in a hospital bed and then see this...
21 years later, Diane, by then 34 years old and in perfect health tells her story to the press on the day of Elvis' death, August 16, 1977. The article appeared on the 18th.
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Someone is following Elvis Presley's footsteps on vaccine, says CNN,
Now, in my opinion, to hear his name in such context is truly inspiring. The person being interviewed just hits bullseye, as far as making Elvis a perspn who really mattered.
Now, in my opinion, to hear his name in such context is truly inspiring. The person being interviewed just hits bullseye, as far as making Elvis a perspn who really mattered.
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BREAKING NEWS
Elvis now the 13th most researched PERSON (on account of three variables, namely the entire WIKI family of pages, plus Youtube and Twitter, when COMBINED) to have been ever born on US soil.
Naturalized americans like say, Albert Einstein, not included.
Elvis just overtook JFK as 2020 neared its end. From an HPI of 83.08 in 2019 he jumped to 88 90. his bio and pages activities being read in 160 languages on WIKIPEDIA.
https://pantheon.world/explore/rankings?show=people&years=-3501,2020&place=usa
In short, he ranks
# 1 amongst all singers born after 3,501 BC
# 1 amongst all PERSONS born in 1935
# 2 amongst all PERSONS who died in 1977 (after Charles Chaplin)
# 2 amongst all male artists to have EVER been born on US soil (after S.Stallone)
# 3 amongst all ARTISTS to have ever been born on US soil (after Marilyn Monroe and S. Stallone)
# 4 amongts all ARTISTS born in the 20th Century (after MM, Sly Stallone and Freddy. Mercury)
# 12 amongst all MALES born on US soil
# 13 amongst all PERSONS born on US soil (5 of those ranking ahead of him being US presidents)
# 20 amongst all MALES born in the 20th Century
# 23 amongst all PERSONS born in the 20th Cenuiry.
# 29 amongst all artists, since 3,501 BC
# 176 amongst all PERSONS to have been born after 3,501 BC.
In short, TODAY, he's never below the 200 most heard, researched and read about individuals who ever lived, in the latter two cases in 160 languages. Not bad, I say...
Elvis now the 13th most researched PERSON (on account of three variables, namely the entire WIKI family of pages, plus Youtube and Twitter, when COMBINED) to have been ever born on US soil.
Naturalized americans like say, Albert Einstein, not included.
Elvis just overtook JFK as 2020 neared its end. From an HPI of 83.08 in 2019 he jumped to 88 90. his bio and pages activities being read in 160 languages on WIKIPEDIA.
https://pantheon.world/explore/rankings?show=people&years=-3501,2020&place=usa
In short, he ranks
# 1 amongst all singers born after 3,501 BC
# 1 amongst all PERSONS born in 1935
# 2 amongst all PERSONS who died in 1977 (after Charles Chaplin)
# 2 amongst all male artists to have EVER been born on US soil (after S.Stallone)
# 3 amongst all ARTISTS to have ever been born on US soil (after Marilyn Monroe and S. Stallone)
# 4 amongts all ARTISTS born in the 20th Century (after MM, Sly Stallone and Freddy. Mercury)
# 12 amongst all MALES born on US soil
# 13 amongst all PERSONS born on US soil (5 of those ranking ahead of him being US presidents)
# 20 amongst all MALES born in the 20th Century
# 23 amongst all PERSONS born in the 20th Cenuiry.
# 29 amongst all artists, since 3,501 BC
# 176 amongst all PERSONS to have been born after 3,501 BC.
In short, TODAY, he's never below the 200 most heard, researched and read about individuals who ever lived, in the latter two cases in 160 languages. Not bad, I say...
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Re: Elvis and the vaccine antipolio
The Guardian newspaper (UK) has picked up on this, too :
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/04/beating-anti-vaxxers-vaccine-myths-coronavirus-elvis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Yahoo_Mail
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/04/beating-anti-vaxxers-vaccine-myths-coronavirus-elvis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Yahoo_Mail
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Thanks. And thank you all for your great contributions on this topic.Steve Morse wrote:The Guardian newspaper (UK) has picked up on this, too :
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/04/beating-anti-vaxxers-vaccine-myths-coronavirus-elvis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Yahoo_Mail
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Here is a link to a story that postulates the Elvis can help popularise the covid vaccine, with the incorrect assertion that Elvis was vaccinated live on TV.
https://apple.news/AzDtITYPbSYim6GsXMBSklQ
https://apple.news/AzDtITYPbSYim6GsXMBSklQ
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