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2025-06-26 19:59:47 UTC - HELPFUL
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Salk's vaccine was immediately licensed to 6 different for-profit companies to produce. The funding for his research primarily came from the "March of Dimes", a private charity. This was not socialism under even a very broad definition. https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-polio-vaccination https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1114166/
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