A man from Downtown Los Angeles, California, has died after receiving the flu shot.
The total number of people who have died from flu-related illnesses this season stands at six people so far.
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Spokesman.com reports:
Chad Rattray wasn’t just Cheddar Chad or the dog guy. Mainly, he was Chad.
Nearly everyone who bought a hot dog from Rattray out front of the Bank of America building in downtown Spokane was on a first-name basis him.
Rattray died suddenly Monday of complications related to the flu. He was 37 years old and had finished his training to be a Spokane Transit Authority bus driver within the last week. He drove only one day, on Sunday.
“He was one of those people who stood out in a world full of knuckleheads,” said Tim Burk, chief engineer for the bank building. “There was nothing I didn’t like about the guy. I think you could ask 10,000 people and not one of them would speak badly about him.”
Paul Hoffman, a training instructor with STA, had been buying hot dogs from Rattray for as long as he can remember. Hoffman ended up recruiting Rattray to work for STA.
“You wouldn’t think a hot dog guy would have such an impact … but you can feel it. It’s palpable,” Hoffman said.
“He was just a stellar student. An exemplary student. An awesome driver. He was on that course to be a legend among drivers. A firm grip.”
This season, six people have died with flu-related illnesses – including three since Jan. 13. Rattray was generally healthy and had a flu shot this year.
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So, he didn’t die from the flu shot, he dies of a strain of the flu that the vaccination didn’t affect. There are several strains alive at any time and they evolve quickly – that is why the flu vaccine is different every year. The graphic implies that the ‘poisons’ in the vaccine somehow caused this. Fact: very many more people would die from the flu if it were not for vaccines.
Fact: As evidenced Chad Rattray, a person who has had the flu shot can still contract and spread the flu.
Fact: A person wearing a mask isn’t spewing disease everywhere unlike a person who takes a flu shot and wears no mask because they are “protected”
Fact: There is no evidence to support vaccines as adequate protection against the flu.
You have to define the word, ‘adequate’. If you say that being only 40% effective is not adequate because it only prevents, say, 1000 flu related deaths, rather than preventing all flu related deaths, then you are committing the nirvana fallacy – the idea that a solution that is not perfect is unacceptable. Aside from deaths, the flu is expensive. It costs money to treat, and causes loss in productivity because people have to stay home from work if they are sick or have to care for someone who is. Also, actual science disagrees with you. What would be adequate for you?
Fact: the flu can kill infants, elderly, cancer patients, immune suppressed people…
Fact: the flu vaccine is effective against some strains.
Therefore, the vaccine saves lives.
Sometimes I think we need another pandemic to remind anti-vaxxers the value of science.
Boom, science!: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/03/30/peds.2016-4244
So, he didn’t die from the flu shot, he dies of a strain of the flu that the vaccination didn’t affect. There are several strains alive at any time and they evolve quickly – that is why the flu vaccine is different every year. The graphic implies that the ‘poisons’ in the vaccine somehow caused this. Fact: very many more people would die from the flu if it were not for vaccines.