Perhaps because the flu is so common, so quotidian, we tend to minimize its pandemic-level potential
Photo: Peerawat Kamklay/Getty Images A group of doctors seeking to provide free flu shots to detained migrants were reportedly ignored by the Trump administration this week. After being turned away, the doctors vowed to protest the decision at several Border Patrol stations and the San Diego border agency office until officials let them in. Dr.
In more recent reports, the CDC warns that “widespread” flu activity was reported by health departments in 46 states. Furthermore, the percentage of patients showing up to the doctor with flu symptoms has nearly matched the 2017-2018 flu season peak. That season was the most severe in a decade. Healthy people get the flu shot for themselves, but perhaps more importantly, they get the flu shot for people who are vulnerable — people who are more at risk of dying of the flu, who become all the more likely to catch the flu when the healthy people around them don’t do their part. Health insurance is meant to work similarly: If we’re healthy, we pay a little now , while we’re well, on behalf of people who are sick now, and also for our future, sicker selves.
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