I got vaccinated because I have seen this disease cruelly take the lives of more than 600,000 Americans. I wouldn’t want to be the reason that someone else died. I remember when polio, rubella and mumps went through this country. It’s not a pretty memory.
— Rebecca A. Drum
Palmer
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