During the 1918–19 influenza pandemic that killed over fifty million, around the world, scientists responded in ways they never had before. And because of that global pandemic, scientific institutions leaped into modern times, especially in the United States. Scientists had learned how to culture the polio virus and began to work on a vaccine, which about thirty-five years later became a savior to generations that followed. American medical schools and research centers like Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) became model centers for the world and the places for some of the
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