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It's not well matched with the dominant strain. But it may offer some protection against a less common strain.
The flu shot may offer some protection even against H3N2. I will use myself as an example. I got the shot, got the flu (influenza A) and was well within 3 days. If I had not been immunized, I would have been sick for a week or more.
On CNN, a doctor said that it's about 64% this year.
That may be so. I don't think they've done the efficacy studies on this year's vaccine yet. That usually happens later in the season, when they compile the stats.
15 deaths is not an epidemic. More die from medicine they take than that.
Please take an epidemiology course and an empathy course before commenting like that again. Tell that to the parents of those dead kids. In general, flu is a vaccine preventable disease, or at least a vaccine preventable death. Keep in mind too that's just confirmedpediatric deaths. About 30,000 people die of flu/flu complications annually in the US.
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