The COVID-19 pandemic naturally got scientists, physicians and members of the public revisiting other catastrophic infectious disease epidemics to see how they were handled by the frightened public and an unprepared society. Hannah Wunsch, MD, a critical care physician and researcher, happened upon a largely untold story of a deadly 1952 polio epidemic in Denmark that fortuitously brought together innovative physicians, dedicated nurses and hundreds of inexperienced medical students to change the treatment of polio and give birth to modern-day intensive care medicine.
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