Several shots of the exteriors of large, stately buildings. A scientist attempts to grow the polio virus in chicken eggs, injecting them with a hypodermic needle. Shots of people carrying sick children out of ambulances into the hospital. Cut to shots of closed pools and movie theaters. A child in an iron lung rides in a truck as a nurse tends to him. Iron lungs are unloaded from a truck and carted around. Nurses line up outside of a building and sit in an assembly room. Shots of patients lying in beds and being fed. One shot of a patient in an iron lung.