Jonas Salk refused to patent his polio vaccine in 1955. He lost $7 billion in the process, but made the drug available to children around the world. Thanks to him, the incidence of this disease decreased by 96%.
Jonas Salk , Jonas Salk refused Salk refused,
Jonas , Jonas Salk refused Salk refused to patent , polio vaccine in 1955, lost $7 billion in the process, made the drug available to children, to children around the world, the incidence of this disease , decreased by 96%,
Jonas Salk , Jonas Salk refused Salk refused,
Jonas , Jonas Salk refused Salk refused to patent , polio vaccine in 1955, lost $7 billion in the process, made the drug available to children, to children around the world, the incidence of this disease , decreased by 96%,
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00:00Jonas Salk refused to patent his polio vaccine in 1955.
00:08He lost $7 billion in the process, but made the drug available to children around the
00:16world.
00:17Thanks to him, the incidence of this disease decreased by 96 percent.
00:26Not long afterward, in the early 1950s, the first successful vaccine was created by U.S.
00:35physician Jonas Salk.
00:37Salk tested his experimental killed virus vaccines on himself and his family in 1953
00:48and a year later on 1.6 million children in Canada, Finland, and the USA.
00:57The results were announced on April 12, 1955, and Salk's inactivated polio vaccine, IPV,
01:10was licensed on the same day.
01:13By 1957, annual cases dropped from 58,000 to 5,600, and by 1961, only 161 cases remained.
01:32Salk was committed to equitable access to his vaccine and understood that elimination
01:41efforts would not work without universal low-cost vaccination.
01:48Six pharmaceutical companies were licensed to produce IPV, and Salk did not profit from
01:57sharing the formulation or production processes.
02:03In a 1955 interview, when asked who owned the patent for IPV, he replied,
02:11Well, the people.
02:14I would say there is no patent.
02:17Could you patent the sun?