“It is safe and you can’t get safer than safe.”

Jonas Salk

1914-1995

Reply when questioned on the safety of the newly released polio vaccine he developed in 1955.

Jonas Salk was an American virologist, physician and medical researcher who developed the polio vaccine in 1955 and is credited with saving millions of lives worldwide. In the week that the COVID-19 vaccine was approved and released to the American people, we salute the work of Salk and countless others for their contributions.

(source: “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations”)