Working through a viral pandemic: The Experience of Claire McCarthy with Polio in 1955

As many of our friends and neighbors are called on to continue working during the COVID-19 pandemic we look back to the experience of a healthcare worker who was on the front lines during the Polio epidemic of 1955.

Claire McCarthy, PT, MS, DPT (Hon) joins Mark Rockoff, MD to discuss her experience as a physical therapist at Boston Children's Hospital during the Polio epidemic of 1955.

When she began working at Boston Children's Hospital in 1953, Claire was a recent phyicial therapy graduate she was not aware of the flood of Polio patients that would arrive two years later. With more than two thousand children in Massachusetts aquiring the deadly disease in 1955, Claire shares her experience as a healthcare worker during a viral epidemic.


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