Eric Chason's new memoir is about his daughter Lillian, who was in college when she got the flu and ultimately died. Her story serves as a cautionary tale from a virus that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. commonhealth
When Lillian Chason was 16, she got a life-changing diagnosis: her trouble finding the right glasses stemmed from a genetic eye disease calledBut she wasn't about to let that stop her. At Barrington High School in Rhode Island, she kept singing and acting in school shows, and when she went on to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she even won the lead role in a play.
Lillian did get worse. She got so weak she couldn't climb back up into her loft bed. On the phone, her mother, Cate, begged her to go back to the health center, Eric Chason says. Public health officials point out that while the coronavirus is scary because it's new, the flu reliably lands hundreds of thousands of Americans in the hospital every year, and kills tens of thousands.
That trust can be particularly hard when it comes to flu, says Dr. Adrienne Randolph, an expert on severe influenza at Boston Children's Hospital.
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