The pic is a blast from my past. The idea of being in an “iron lung” terrified me as a kid. As I recall, the March of Dimes had little iron-lung ‘piggy banks’ where you could donate your dimes.
Salk’s vaccine (shots) came in when I was about 10. Sabin’s vaccine (oral on sugar cubes) came a year or two later. Remember having both. No one was taking any chances.