Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr · Aired Oct 28, 2026
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Polio was wiped out in the 1950s.
The finding
What the evidence shows
Carr recalls polio being wiped out in the 1950s. CDC records vaccine introduction in 1955, further vaccine introduction in 1961 and the final US-acquired wild case in 1979. Joe immediately replies that polio still is a problem at 27:19.6. Credit that correction and distinguish US elimination from global eradication.
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Is it true that Polio was wiped out in the 1950s?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Carr recalls polio being wiped out in the 1950s. CDC records vaccine introduction in 1955, further vaccine introduction in 1961 and the final US-acquired wild case in 1979. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2571 - Jimmy Carr, aired Oct 28, 2026, at 27:04. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is cdc.gov, linked below.
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No separately verified on-air correction is recorded for this check. That is not a claim that nobody corrected it.
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