Claim: The death from influenza of eight mostly vaccinated people over 65 in California's Santa Barbara County during the 2017-2018 flu season proves that you shouldn’t get the flu shot.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: were confirmed, one by a middle-aged man in San Bernardino County, and another one by a middle-aged woman in Los Angeles County. A third death was confirmed on June 4, when a nine-year-old girl from Contra Costa County died. They were followed by an Orange County man's death on June 8 and a middle-aged man's death in Alameda County on June 9. As of June 9, there were 973 confirmed cases, 266 probable cases, and five deaths caused by the H1N1 flu. On June 10, another middle-aged man died in Alameda County, thus making it the third death in the

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: a US Army National Guard base located in North Little Rock in Pulaski County. Deaths by county: The first two cases detected in the US were two children living in San Diego County and Imperial County (a county in which 18% of the residents are not US citizens), who became ill on March 28 and 30 respectively. A CDC alert concerning these two isolated cases was reported in the media on April 21. As of April 24 eight human cases were known in the US, including six in Southern California. The patients have recovered. The acting director of the US

title: 2017–18 United States flu season
text: 140 patients daily, had more than 200 patients on one of those days. By 19 January, seventy-four people under the age of 65 had died in California, with thirty-two of those deaths occurring in the preceding week, making it the deadliest week of the flu season so far. By February 9, 2018, the national rate for flu-like symptoms for patients visiting clinics had reached "well above" seven percent, a rate last seen during the H1N1 swine flu epidemic of 2009. According to the "Los Angeles Times", 163 people under the age of 65 had died of the flu since October

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: San Francisco Bay Area. On July 1, a woman who had been hospitalized in Marin County died of swine flu. As of July 23, 2009, 2,655 cases and 61 deaths in California had been confirmed. A list of hospitalizations and deaths can be viewed at the California Department of Health Website. As of mid-September 2009, California had 2,655 cases and 152 deaths. As of January 15, at least 479 California residents had died from confirmed H1N1 infection. On April 30 two cases of the flu virus were confirmed in the state of Colorado. The confirmed cases were a woman from

title: 2009 flu pandemic timeline
text: for Disease Control (CDC) is advised of a ten-year-old boy with a respiratory illness in San Diego County, California. Test results revealed an Influenza A virus but were negative for standard human strains. The San Diego County Health Department is notified. United States The CDC receives its first sample from California (from the ten-year-old boy in San Diego County), and identifies the virus as a strain of swine influenza A(H1N1). Mexico Authorities notify the PAHO of the atypical pneumonia. Veratect publishes the alert "Atypical Pneumonia Cases Reported at Hospital" regarding the Oaxaca cases. Mexico A case of atypical pneumonia in

title: 2017–18 United States flu season
text: recent flu outbreak had killed at least 63 children. On February 10, 2018, officials in New York City confirmed the third pediatric flu death for the 2017–2018 season. The week prior, 43 states reported high patient traffic for the flu, with flu remaining widespread in each state except Hawaii and Oregon. California was hit especially hard by the 2017–18 flu outbreak. In California as of 6 January, twenty-seven people under the age of 65 died from flu since October, nine times as many as the prior year. The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center emergency room, which often caters to about

title: Influenza vaccine
text: to die an influenza-associated death than the 50–64 age group. There is a high-dose flu vaccine specifically formulated to provide a stronger immune response. Available evidence indicates that vaccinating the elderly with the high-dose vaccine leads to a stronger immune response against influenza than the regular-dose vaccine. A flu vaccine containing an adjuvant was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2015, for use by adults aged 65 years of age and older. The vaccine is marketed as Fluad in the U.S. and was first available in the 2016–2017 flu season. The vaccine contains the MF59C.1

title: Swine influenza
text: 11 cases of GBS, which is lower than the normal rate of the disease in China: "The risk-benefit ratio, which is what vaccines and everything in medicine is about, is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccination." In September 1988, a swine flu virus killed one woman and infected others. A 32-year-old woman, Barbara Ann Wieners, was eight months pregnant when she and her husband, Ed, became ill after visiting the hog barn at a county fair in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Barbara died eight days later, after developing pneumonia. The only pathogen identified was an H1N1 strain of swine influenza virus. Doctors

title: 2017–18 United States flu season
text: that year hadn't "changed enough from previous seasons to be considered a novel strain." In the first week of February, deaths from influenza and pneumonia were responsible for one of every ten deaths in the US, with 4,064 from pneumonia or influenza recorded in the third week of 2018, according to CDC data. The CDC also reported 63 child deaths at that point, half of which were not considered medically high risk, and only about 20 percent who were vaccinated. Only two of those deaths were babies under six months old. On February 9, 2018, the CDC announced that the

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: another two in Marion County (June 15, 2009 and July 24, 2009) and three in Multnomah County (June 26, 2009, July 3, 2009, and July 17, 2009). On May 3, The Pennsylvania Department of Health said that a 31-year-old male in Montgomery County had the H1N1 flu. By May 5 probable cases were under investigation in Philadelphia (10), Bucks (2), Chester (2), Allegheny (1), Cambria (1), Franklin (1), Lehigh (1), Luzerne (1), Lycoming (1), Montgomery (1), and York (1) counties. On June 4, a 55-year-old woman in Berks County was confirmed as the first death in Pennsylvania due to swine

title: Influenza vaccine
text: lack of high-quality evidence. Reviews of case–control studies found effects against laboratory-confirmed influenza, pneumonia, and death among the community-dwelling elderly. The group most vulnerable to non-pandemic flu, the elderly, benefits least from the vaccine. There are multiple reasons behind this steep decline in vaccine efficacy, the most common of which are the declining immunological function and frailty associated with advanced age. In a non-pandemic year, a person in the United States aged 50–64 is nearly ten times more likely to die an influenza-associated death than a younger person, and a person over age 65 is over ten times more likely

title: 2009 flu pandemic timeline
text: illness for a ten-year-old boy residing in San Diego County, California; his case is eventually the first to be confirmed as swine flu in the US. United States A nasopharyngeal swab is collected from a ten-year-old male patient in San Diego County, later confirmed as containing the novel virus and the first organism of that strain to be completely sequenced (A/California/04/2009(H1N1)). Mexico In La Gloria, Veracruz, a four-year-old boy falls ill at the end of the outbreak. Only his sample, which was eventually sent abroad, tested positive for A(H1N1). Veracruz officials state that there were no plans to exhume the

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: rest having just a seasonal flu. H1N1 has been detected in 530 residents of Oregon as of July 24, 2009. Confirmed cases have been found in 21 out of 36 counties, including Benton County, Clackamas County, Clatsop County, Columbia County, Crook County, Deschutes County, Douglas County, Hood River County, Jackson County, Klamath County, Lane County, Lincoln County, Linn County, Marion County, Multnomah County, Polk County, Tillamook County, Umatilla County, Wasco County, Washington County, and Yamhill County. On June 8, 2009, Oregon's first H1N1-related death in Marion County was reported by the ODHS. Since then, five other deaths have been reported;

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
text: 11,690 people had died (including 1,180 children) due to swine flu from April through to mid-January. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the first two A/09(H1N1) swine flu cases in California on April 17, 2009, via the Border Infectious Disease Program, for the San Diego County child, and a naval research facility studying a special diagnostic test, where influenza sample from the child from Imperial County was tested. By April 21, enhanced surveillance was established to search for additional cases in both California and Texas and the CDC determined that the virus strain was genetically similar to

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: to lessen the flu's threat. On April 28, Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency which allows the state to deploy additional resources to the Department of Public Health and more quickly and easily purchase equipment and materials. St. Mels Catholic School in Fair Oaks was closed after Sacramento County Health Department notified the school that a 7th grade student who reportedly recently returned from a family vacation in Mexico tested positive for an unidentified strain of influenza virus A. On April 27, CDC officials confirmed that the student tested positive for swine flu. In Marin County, a grandmother and

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: it was announced that a man from Snohomish County, in his thirties with a pre-existing heart condition and active viral pneumonia, became the third confirmed US death from swine flu-involved complications. As of January 23, there have been 1383 confirmed cases of H1N1N that required hospital care in the second wave of H1N1 (since September 19, 2009), and 76 deaths. On July 1, 2009, it was reported that the Tri-Cities had its first case of swine flu. On June 18, 2009, Grant County Health Department reported six cases of swine flu in Quincy. As of the evening of May 22,

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: flu. The first swine flu death in New Jersey occurred on June 13, 2009. The man who died was a 49-year-old resident of Essex County. As of January 13, 2010,14 confirmed deaths from H1N1 have been reported, since september1 in New Jersey. On April 29, 2009, Gov. Bill Richardson announced that there are two very probable cases in New Mexico. The suspected cases were a 1-year-old boy from Santa Fe County and an 18-year-old man from Valencia County. The 1-year-old tested negative for H1N1, but the 18-year-old man tested positive. More cases were raised in the intervening days, and by

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: there had been 30 deaths from H1N1 in Utah, 18 through August 31, 2009 and a further 12 since that time. On November 18, 2009 the Utah State Health department reported five more deaths from swine flu. The Vermont Department of Health announced a probable case of the H1N1 virus in rural Orleans County. A second case of the flu was confirmed involving an adult in Windsor County. As of July 22, there have been 62 laboratory confirmed cases. The Virginia Department of Health had confirmed 14 cases in the state by May 7, and a total of 23 by

title: 2009 flu pandemic in Europe
text: regions have reported more than 20 cases; Stockholm County with 144, Skåne County with 78 and Västra Götaland County with 71. 42 of the 408 cases were contracted domestically. A 22-year-old man in Norrköping is hospitalised with a life-threatening condition, requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. In August, a 37-year-old man in Uppsala was the first to die of H1N1 influenza in Sweden. The second case was in September, a 55-year-old man in Västerås. On 31 October, a three-year-old boy died in a hospital after first being turned down treatment even though he suffered several of the obvious symptoms. The first suspicious

title: 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state
text: Liberty Middle School) where the students attended have been closed till May 11. On May 7, Alachua County announced its first case of H1N1 (Swine Flu). The person is a University of Florida student and has since recovered. On May 8, a 7-year-old boy tested positive of swine influenza in Rockledge, Brevard County, Florida . Two other children tested positive for influenza. It caused Golfview Elementary School in Rockledge to close on May 11. On June 9, a 9-year-old boy died of Swine Flu in Miami Dade On July 10, a woman died of H1n1 in Palm Beach County. As