If you haven’t been vaccinated against polio, you should get three doses of the vaccine, according to the CDC. The first two doses should be separated by one to two months, and the third dose should be given 6 to 12 months after the second dose.
Dr. Waleed Javaid, a hospital epidemiologist and director of infection prevention and control at Mount Sinai Downtown, told BuzzFeed News not to worry. He said most people should be vaccinated, but check with your doctor to be sure.
“We are living in a time where we are witnessing a pandemic of COVID, followed by an outbreak of monkeypox, and this has raised our awareness to a different level,” he said. “We’re all already worried about why all these infections are coming our way, and what I would say about that is that with COVID and monkeypox, we really didn’t have good vaccination plans or processes, but polio, we have a successful strategy, a successful vaccination that eradicated for the most part polio in many parts of the world.”
For more information on what you need to know about polio, go here.
After health officials announced that the polio virus was in New York City’s sewage, people took to Twitter about their confusion about whether they got the vaccine when they were young. And stories of the ensuing interactions with their parents quickly spread across social media.
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