1/6/20 Child Flu Deaths Hit Record High

6 Flu Vaccine Myths

Flu Vaccine Side Affects

Optimistic people are more likely to live longer.  They increase by 70% greater odds of reaching the age of 85. Optimists may be better at regulating emotion and coping with stress.

Just 37% of American adults got a flu shot in the 2017-2018 flu season, the lowest rate since 2010-2011, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. That could be why 49 million people got the disease and a record 79,000 people died from it last season. 

47,173 Americans killed themselves in 2017. In  one year  the suicide count was nearly seven times greater than the number of American soldiers killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2001 and 2018.