A 60-year-old doctor at the Cleveland Clinic died earlier this month from regular influenza. Even with having the vaccine. That news really shook me as I just got back from the CC with my dad, a 70-year-old high-risk patient with influenza. Not sure how the doc succumbed and my dad didn’t.
It’s amazing to me to think of who is getting sick and who isn’t. It almost seems random, and hopeless to completely protect yourself. Somehow I’m not sick. Yet. But EVERYONE else in my family is. Amazing.
It’s times like this that must really make medical professionals take stock of how important yet risky their work is (as you are doing). Godspeed.