Last U.S. Polio Patient in an Iron Lung, Martha Lillard, Passes Away at 78
Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung, died on June 26 in Oklahoma at age 78. Lillard’s death marks the end of an era for American medicine, as her sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press that Lillard’s passing was attributed to the effects of long-haul COVID-19, chronic pulmonary failure, … Read more