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MD. Pediatrician, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC); Director, Pediatric Diagnostic Program. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. Request an Appointment. Phone: 617-355-7701. Fax: 617-730-0505. Email: Email Me. NPI: 1710055611. Print Profile.
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Claire McCarthy, MD, is a primary care pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. In addition to being a senior faculty editor for Harvard Health Publishing, Dr. McCarthy writes about health and parenting for Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston.com, and the Huffington Post.
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- Polio Versus Covid-19
- A Major Influx of Polio Patients
- Vaccination timelines
- Hope For The End of The Polio Outbreak
In many ways, COVID-19 and polio present similar challenges. Like polio, COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus that can be deadly. But while COVID-19 enters the lungs through airborne particles, polio enters the body through the gastrointestinal tract, often via contaminated water. Despite their differences, both diseases resulted in outbreaks that...
Massachusetts would report more than 2,000 cases of polio in the summer of 1955. Boston Children’s would admit more than 650 of them. At the peak of the outbreak, nearly 40 new cases arrived at the hospital each day. McCarthy recalls cars carrying sick children lined up along Longwood Avenue and Blackfan Street. “Physicians went out onto the street...
A breakthrough at Boston Children’s enabled development of the vaccine that would lead to the eradication of polio in the United States and most other parts of the world. Microbiologist John Enders, and his colleagues, Drs. Thomas Weller and Frederic Robbins unveiled a method for culturing poliovirus in human tissue samples in 1949. Jonas Salk’s in...
No one knows for sure how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out. The history of the 1955 polio outbreak suggests that health care providers will continue to grapple with the disease long after the worst of the crisis has passed. In September 1955, Boston Children’s then-president P.D. Howe wrote, “Hope grows that the end of this epidemic of 1955 may ...
