The coronavirus is far from the first contagious illness that has upended society. The polio virus plagued the United States for decades before a vaccine was distributed in 1955. Kansas News Service reporter Anne Kniggendorf spoke with 80-year-old Pat Gray at her assisted living facility in Lenexa about surviving that disease.
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