President Joe Biden's u-turn on vaccine mandates does not mark the first time people in the U.S. has been required to get immunized.
1939, American soldiers were vaccinated against smallpox, with vaccines for flu, tetanus, cholera, and other viruses added during the conflict.during the Revolutionary War and following the Declaration of Independence, smallpox was killing around one in three Americans who contracted it, and military camps were one of the places it seemed to break out frequently.
A rudimentary vaccine had been used by doctors in Massachusetts in the 1720s and figures including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Martha Washington were vaccinated against smallpox.
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