re: Public service announcement: Get your GD flu shot

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So these people are perfectly healthy and they just die?

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This one did

They developed symptoms, two days later ended up in the ER with shortness of breath, the next day was on a ventilator with ARDS and multi organ failure and today died. So basically 4 days from the onset of symptoms to death. They just had a severe primary influenza pneumonia that trashed their lungs.

Some die in the following weeks from opportunistic infections such as bacterial pneumonia and that is more drawn out.