Re: I would like to add....
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 2/20/2018, 8:08 pm
A former neighbor's adult son died last week from complications after getting the flu. I didn't know him but I've heard he had sepsis, MRSA and maybe pneumonia too. It's good to have the shot so the symptoms might be less if you get it and so that you might not experience additional complications and infections. I don't know if he had gotten the shot. It helps, but it doesn't mean that you can't still die from it.

My great aunt got out of the rehabilitation center over the weekend.

There are a lot of misconceptions about the flu shot. I guess some people confuse your immune system reacting when you get it to thinking they were given the flu. And of course it also takes a few weeks to be most effective. I don't think I knew until this year that even if you do get the flu the symptoms might not be as bad if you got a flu shot. In the early part of this decade deaths from the flu ranged from an estimate of 12,000 to 56,000 each year in the US, so it's definitely something that people need to take seriously.
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