Make vaccines great again!

David Brin opened his latest missive with this story about the "Asian Flu" of 1957:

"Maurice Hilleman, a doctor later regarded as the godfather of vaccines, in 1957 read about a nasty flu outbreak in Hong Kong that mentioned glassy-eyed children at a clinic, tipping him off that these deaths meant the next big flu pandemic." Hilleman requested samples of the virus be shipped to U.S. drugmakers right away so they could get a vaccine ready. Though 70,000 people in the United States ultimately died, "some predicted that the U.S. death toll would have reached 1 million without the vaccine that Hilleman called for... Health officials widely credited that vaccine with saving many lives." 

Dwight Eisenhower was the president. The "Greatest Generation" admired science and expertise. The most celebrated and popular American at the time was named Jonas Salk. Let's all make America that kind of great again.

I agree!