poor.

On a personal note, my maternal grandmother died from spinal meningitis in 1946 simply because penicillin wasn't widely available. She lingered in a hospital for 3 days before dying, leaving 8 children motherless.

If she'd gotten antibiotics, she would have easily survived. At the time, only the military had any so civilians were sh!t out of luck.

Nowhere near the national significance of a POTUS dying needlessly, but simply one story of millions that happened because of a lack of medical knowledge a/o medicines widely available today.