Current event #5:”80,000 estimated dead from flu”
Last season the virus killed 80,000 people. The US got it the worst it led to more hospitalizations and sadly deaths. Right now the death toll is not expected to go down. The records from 2017-2018’s times for the flu was worse than it was back in the 1976-1977’s seasons. There is a new vaccine and early records show that the vaccine is more effective.
My thoughts on this event are that we all need to get the new vaccine and maybe the death rate will go down. Nobody needs to die from a disease even the flu. Hopefully we get the new vaccine I don’t want to see that people are dieing that is just sad of all things its sad enough people dieing in general its worse dieing from a disease. I feel so sad about this 80,000 people dead and I bet alot of them were kids so many people with futures ahead of them died.
I got this information from an article by CBC
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-news/articles/2018-09-27/cdc-80-000-people-died-of-flu-complications-last-season-in-us
I do agree with your opinion. With a virus so common as the flu you would think there would be vaccines that were effective and worked fairly well to be in use. To know that so many people died from something so common is kind of disappointing. Kids and adults should be getting flu shots every year to make them stronger against the virus. Some people don't get the flu shot because they think it gives them the flu, but the vaccine helps you so your body fights against it. When you don't get the vaccine it makes you more vulnerable to the virus and as it seems in this case some have died because of it.
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