Oshinsky, author of Polio: An American Story and director of medical humanities at the New York University School of Medicine. “I remember going to school as a little boy in New York City, and when you’d come back, you’d see the kid in the wheelchair, the kid in braces, and you’d see the occasional empty desk when you knew the kid wasn’t coming back,” says David M. Polio reached its apex in America with a 1952 epidemic that infected 57,628 people, paralyzed 21,269 and killed 3,175. Parents urged their children to avoid large crowds. Polio shuttered beaches and swimming pools, movie houses and baseball fields. In the 1950s, summer outbreaks of polio touched tens of thousands of children.
Children’s fears A sixth-grade classroom in Milwaukee on the first day of school in 1944 is barely occupied because of a polio quarantine.
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