Lindsay Graham

Did Sabin see things in those terms?

But it was the Salk vaccine that was first.

In April 1954, field trials were conducted on hundreds of thousands of children in the United States.

And a year later, on April 12, 1955, the findings were announced at a dramatic press conference.

But Albert Sabin was at that press conference.

What did he say about that time?

So you say Sabin tested his oral polio vaccine in Eastern Europe, but this is during the Cold War.

Where did he find his test subjects?

So you've set the stage.

It's late 1950s in the USSR during the Cold War, and Russian virologist Mikhail Chumakov has samples of Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine, the understanding of how to manufacture it, everything he needs for a mass vaccination campaign, but he can't get approval for it.

What was the problem?

How did he get around it?

And that happened in 1961 when the vaccine was licensed for production and use in the United States.

Do you think Albert Sabin gloated at all when it was his vaccine that was ultimately endorsed by the American Medical Association and overtook the salt version?

But for Sabin, this is a career-making achievement.

And I suppose he could have just retired then.

But he didn't.

What did he do instead?

And in return, Sabin received many accolades in the U.S.

He was awarded the U.S.