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Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_vaccines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_vaccines

• amasad 7y ago
  This is like saying we've been 'programming' since Ada Lovelace wrote the first program in the 1840, which is silly to say the least. The CDC starts measure after a vaccine has passed the 'licensure' process: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a9.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a9.htm
  • mikeash 7y ago
    Programming wasn’t saving thousands of lives in the 1840s. Vaccines were is fairly wide use long before the 1960s. Deaths from smallpox dropped sharply though the 1800s and it was eliminated entirely in many countries.
    • amasad 7y ago
      I think you're missing a basic understanding of what an "analogy" is. Hard to keep this conversation going.
      • mikeash 7y ago
        Programming had essentially zero real-world impact before the 1950s. The analogy you’re trying to make is that vaccines existed but had virtually no real world impact before the 1960s. Did I get that right? Because that’s what I understood, and it’s severely wrong.