This was a good time to discuss this topic, after we had a good hard look at the influenza mortality rates despite more than 200 million flu shots going into arms each year. The mortality rate never changed. So why did healthcare providers (physicians, PA’s, nurse practitioners) keep promoting the vaccines even if mortality did not go down? Remember, the goal is to not die. Cases can be whatever they are. Death is what we look at. We do not want you to die. So if the treatment we give you to prevent death is not working, why do we keep doing it?