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The Man Who Beat the 1957 Flu Pandemic

This essay first appeared on Last Word on Nothing on April 15, 2020. Twenty biomedical companies. Seventy nations. An aggressive search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines is underway worldwide. Yet even 21st-century technology can’t match one man who curbed a major influenza pandemic spreading across the United States in 1957.  Pioneering virologist Maurice Hilleman, now […]