Polio, Seymour Hersh, Rose Byrne
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: The threat of polio's return; Oscar-nominee Rose Byrne; reporter Seymour Hersh; Norah O'Donnell on heroines of American history; and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
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| 0:00.0 | What happened? |
| 0:05.2 | From director Maggie Jelenhall. |
| 0:07.0 | We dug you up and brought you back to life. |
| 0:10.4 | Starring award winners Jesse Buckley. |
| 0:12.4 | What did you want with a dead girl? |
| 0:14.4 | And Christian Bale. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm the same. |
| 0:16.5 | Born from the dead. |
| 0:17.6 | A master. |
| 0:18.4 | With Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Benning, and Penelope Cruz. |
| 0:21.4 | The dead have got something to say, and I'm saying it. |
| 0:25.0 | Every fight screen. |
| 0:26.8 | The ride in cinemas March 6. Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning. Imagine a virus that paralyzes |
| 1:03.0 | tens of thousands of children around the world. For anyone alive in the 1950s, that scenario |
| 1:10.0 | isn't hard to imagine because it was reality. |
| 1:14.2 | The virus was polio. |
| 1:16.1 | It disrupted the lives of many and brought terror to many more. |
| 1:21.1 | For much of the world, that changed in 1955, with the introduction of a safe and remarkably effective vaccine that all but eradicated the dreaded disease. |
| 1:32.3 | So this morning, with perspectives and policies on vaccine use changing, Dr. John LePook explores if polio is poised for a comeback. |
| 1:43.3 | Violin Virtuoso, Itzcock, if polio is poised for a comeback. |
| 1:52.0 | Violin Virtuoso Itscock Pearlman became partially paralyzed from polio at age four. Like hundreds of thousands of other children, he was infected before there was a vaccine to protect him. |
| 1:58.0 | You missed it by about six years. |
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