Health
Eradicating Polio Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic – BORGEN – Borgen Project
With COVID-19 setting back many health care work and new polio cases on the rise, organizations worldwide are continuing their goal of eradicating polio.
SEATTLE, Washington The Rotary District 1240 club created the Purple Pinkie campaign more than 20 years ago to eradicate polio and has developed into an extremely successful and creative movement for bringing polio immunization to the publics attention and raising funds. Up until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the world was likely the closest it has ever been to completely eradicating polio that cripples and sometimes kills children under 5 years of age. However, the strain COVID-19 has put on publi…
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