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First U.S. vaccine mandate in 1809 launched 200 years of court battles

December 12, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the Washington Post today was this historical essay: First U.S. vaccine mandate in 1809 launched 200 years of court battles (subscription paywall). Jess McHugh recounts the history of the smallpox vaccination from 1809 through a Supreme Court review of Massachusetts’s vaccine mandates. Just as at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a … [Read more…]

Posted in: History, Pandemic, Politics, Science Tagged: Boston, mandate, Massachusetts, quarantine, side effects, smallpox, vaccine, vaccine mandate

EPIDEMIC WELL UNDER CONTROL, IT IS REPORTED

July 12, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The newspaper article below seems too familiar to our current state in July 2020: San Diego Union and Daily Bee 29 October 1918 EPIDEMIC WELL UNDER CONTROL, IT IS REPORTED Health Board Renews Request For Wearing Masks and Suggests Precautions. Two deaths and 40 new cases summed up the course of the Spanish influenza epidemic … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Pandemic Tagged: 1918, face masks, gauze masks, masks, Spanish Influenza, vaccination, vaccine

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