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The problem is that logisitics is rarely glorified. Take a military, for example. The warriors on the front line get all the credit. However, it's invariably the nation with the best logistical support that wins. The front line is as good as its training. But the best training, weapons, and doctrines fail when the supply chain is severed. Hollywood just can't find a way to make an captivating thriller about wall-to-wall inventories, writing requisition chits, or how acquisition decisions are made.

I’m so happy videos like this are still getting made. Vaccines are truly marvels! Much appreciation to everyone who helped and continues to do so. Love the research you did. Thank you! ❤

It's been suggested that Salk was a lot better at cultivating the media than Sabin.

Phil, this video is fantastic but isn't getting the reach it deserves.
Have you considered changing the title to something more provocative like "How this sugar cube saved 24,000,000 lives"?

I love the way you collect 1 piece of memorabilia from each of your videos.
So fun to see a shot of the studio and know where each piece came from.

Now, a bunch of anti-vaxers are ruining everything.

Your channel clearly stands out on my Youtube feed in the clickbait era in which we live. Always informative and interesting, covering topics I'm often ignorant of. Keep up the good work!

And now, without help of USSR, Polio is still exists, unlike Smallpox

15:14 I think Sabin and Salk got mixed up here? It was the Salk vaccine that had risks of vaccine-induced polio, right?

As much as i appreciate the storytelling he does and all the thing i have learned from his videos. There is no practical use for using 8000 cubes of sugar with 8000 paper cups. It'll all go to the trash. Its a nice demonstration, but that's it. Anyways, his money, his choice.

This was interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Vaccines are the most important medical discovery in the history of humanity to date

Really shines a light on the decay of out gov't. From helping drive solutions to solve real problems facing ordinary people to trying to undo all that progress so kids start dying or being maimed for life again.

I remember those sugar cubes. I also remember my trumpet teacher had polio.

He could walk, but it was hard for him. He was one of the lucky polio survivors.

I also remember Thalidomide that could have been taken by my mother.

We escaped many truly terrible things.

Thanks for this Phil. With the newest climate we're going into, I'm worried that science is under attack under RFK. Wanting to ban vaccines, but then "Oh well what if we go back to a dead cell version of vaccines?" And all his other craziness. The fact we're going down this timeline and willing to let long dormant illnesses back into our lives is nuts.

I always hoped the antivaxxers would just go away, but now that stupid is the new "Smart," I fear we're in for a long, deadly road.

Merci beaucoup j'ai déjà entendu parler ça ça m'a beaucoup étonné 0 j'ai déjà entendu parler des vm vaccin oral mais ça c'est vraiment incroyable c'est c'est vraiment le sucre pour je savais pas à quel point il était efficace ce traitement

I am a sugar cube child. In approximately 1964 when I was about 6 years old, I remember going one day to a local elementary school where lines of children formed in front of long tables, and were given the sugar cube. I remember it being pink, but don't remember the cup or the other 2 doses. Everyone in the neighborhood went. Around the same time I remember people even came to the door collecting for the March of Dimes.

Within 2 years, we moved to Pittsburgh. There, Salk was the hometown hero and still is. There's a building at Pitt with his name! As a public health graduate I know I learned about Sabin, but until today's video I didn't remember/know he was at Cincinnati.

The generations after me have no concept of the devastating toll polio had on the nation. My mother remembers the President (FDR) had polio. There were summers where children were not permitted to go to the public swimming pools for fear of catching polio. As a young adult I knew (older) adults who had polio as a child. They walked with limps or heavy metal braces on their legs. When my children were babies 30 years ago, they were given polio vaccine as a sweet, pink liquid in a small plastic tube to suck on. How much more pleasant than an injection.

So the monkey island series was based on a true story, and the real treasure of monkey island was the polio vaccine?

Time and time again vaccines have been proven to be part of the greater good, not some crazy conspiracy theory.