Another year, another flu vaccine failure.
In hospitals across the country, people are in intensive care units — some on respirators close to death — because of complications of influenza. Many, if not most, had their flu shot this year.
This information comes from my own admittedly unscientific survey of infectious disease specialists. It is hardly a surprise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that, on average, 36,000 Americans a year die from complications of influenza. In the past few weeks this has suddenly become a bad flu season...
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