"The Shot Felt ’Round the World" Trailer

This is the story of how Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh, pulled together with a city and the country to conquer the most fear disease of the twentieth century. Like a horror movie, every summer the polio virus would strike, targeting mostly children. President Roosevelt, who hid is own polio from the public, encouraged every American to help fight this disease by sending dimes to the White House. Some of these March of Dimes went to an unknown 33 year old doctor in Pittsburgh. In six years, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh would develop the world’s first successful polio vaccine. In 1953, Salk tested the vaccine on his sons, and then 7500 Pittsburgh school children and ultimately 1.8 million kids in the largest medical field trial in history. As Salk’s oldest son, Dr. Peter Salk says in “The Shot Felt Round The World“, this was not just the work of one man, but had many streams that came together to make this happen. On