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The great polio vaccine mess and the lessons it holds about federal coordination for today's COVID-19 vaccination effort

  • Written by Bert Spector, Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
The great polio vaccine mess and the lessons it holds about federal coordination for today's COVID-19 vaccination effortElementary students initially received polio vaccines at school.PhotoQuest/Archive Photos via Getty Images

I nervously fell into a long line of fellow first graders in the gymnasium of St. Louis’ Hamilton Elementary School in the spring of 1955. We were waiting for our first injection of the new polio vaccine.

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